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News7 March issue of HSJ is ready to read on the app
This week’s issue of HSJ magazine is now available to read on our tablet app.Download the HSJ app for iPadDownload the HSJ app for AndroidIn this week’s issue we speak exclusively to Care Quality Commission chief inspector Sir Mike Richards who says the CQC must do more to improve the ...
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Mental health trust 'implementing value based healthcare'
STRUCTURE: Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust has begun a programme to redesign its mental health services based on the concept of “value based healthcare”.
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Community trust out of running for £800m integrated care contract
STRUCTURE: Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust’s bid for a £800m older people’s services contract for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough has been rejected, while implementation of the project has been delayed by six months.
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NewsNicholson calls for 'no more top down reorganisation' in final board meeting
Sir David Nicholson took the opportunity of his final NHS England board meeting to warn against further “top-down reorganisations” of the NHS.
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NewsFirst three trusts rated in new-style CQC regime
The Care Quality Commission has published its ratings of three hospital trusts, the first to receive judgements under its new inspection regime.
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NewsDuty of candour set to be extended to 100,000 incidents
NHS providers will be required to tell patients about all but the very least serious patient safety incidents under the new statutory duty of candour, if the recommendations of a government commissioned review are adopted into law.
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NewsKing's Fund calls for 'urgent shift' in elderly care
Budget-squeezed health and care provision for a rapidly ageing population needs to change urgently, a leading health charity has warned.
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Monitor closes Wirral probe
FINANCE: Monitor has closed its investigation into Wirral University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust, the regulator has announced.
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Increase in private ambulances causes problems for trust
An increase in the number of private ambulances arriving at Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust’s accident and emergency department has led to “operational difficulties”, the trust has disclosed.
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NewsAnalysis: Increase in procurement and competition challenges
Providers are increasingly willing to use the procurement, patient choice and competition regulations to challenge decisions, experts have stated, after HSJ analysis identified six of the first legal challenges to emerge.
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NewsRichards: CQC must improve inspection consistency
The Care Quality Commission must do more to improve the consistency of its judgements, the chief inspector of hospitals has said. He spoke after it emerged a leading London teaching hospital successfully challenged the regulator’s plan to issue it a warning notice.
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NewsHunt says NHS on track for patients' access to their GP records
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said 95 per cent of NHS patients will be able to access their GP care records online, free of charge, by the time of the next general election.
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New chair at Coventry and Warwickshire
WORKFORCE: A new chair has been appointed at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust, the NHS Trust Development Authority has confirmed.
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West Midlands trusts partner to deliver breastfeeding support
South Warwickshire Foundation Trust has announced it is working with George Eliot Hospital Trust to provide a new breastfeeding support service for mothers across Bedworth, Nuneaton and North Warwickshire.
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NewsOmbudsman criticises 'unreasonable and unfair' patient ban
A foundation trust has been ordered to apologise to a patient for wrongly banning her from accessing NHS services and using a template letter to imply she was abusive and violent.
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NHS England accuses Monitor of "unpicking" choice and competition framework
A disagreement between NHS England and Monitor appears to be delaying the release of resources to help commissioners navigate choice and competition issues in the NHS, recent board papers reveal.
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NewsLarge providers dominate clinical senates
HSJ analysis has given the most detailed picture so far of the make-up of clinical senates, revealing the extent of large acute trusts’ influence over the advisory bodies.
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NewsNicholson: ‘Not speaking to Mid Staffs relatives my biggest mistake’
Outgoing NHS England chief executive Sir David Nicholson has said he “bitterly” regrets not doing more to engage with the families of patients who died as a result of care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.