News – Page 827
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NewsAnalysis: better care fund decision offers a universal solution
The Department of Health’s decision not to withhold better care fund cash from areas struggling to improve performance looks at first glance like a softening of central control.
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NewsChildren's hospital told to improve
A leading children’s hospital has been ordered to improve after inspectors found patients were being put at risk by a faulty emergency call alarm system, poor staffing and incidents going unreported.
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NewsCrisis over NHS database - GPs
GP leaders are warning of a “crisis of public confidence” in an NHS scheme set up to share details from people’s medical records.
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NewsExclusive: £10m of Healthwatch cash 'goes missing'
Nearly a quarter of the funding for local Healthwatch groups has gone missing, according to research by the national body representing them.
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NewsMinisters: better care fund cash will be spent on health
Health and local government ministers have insisted better care fund cash will not be diverted by councils into non-health projects.
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NewsDH acknowledges 'first fall in life expectancy since 2003'
The Department of Health has acknowledged that life expectancy at 75 – one of its corporate indicators – fell in 2012 for the first time in many years.
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NewsRoughton to consider how CCGs could co-commission primary care
NHS England is looking into how clinical commissioning groups can co-commission primary care, its deputy medical director has revealed.
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NewsMPs back wellbeing boards to be 'system leaders'
The Commons health committee has called for health and wellbeing boards to be given a greater role in spearheading integration between health and social care to ensure the sectors make urgently required savings.
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HSJ LocalNew Imperial chief announced
WORKFORCE: Tracey Batten has been announced as the new chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare Trust.
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NewsNo integration pioneers win 'accelerator' status
NHS England has reneged on its plan to give a designated “integration pioneer” area special status as a centre of best practice in the use of its £260m technology fund.
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NewsNicholson demands hospital centralisation
The outgoing head of NHS England has said hospitals will have to close and services centralised to improve patient care.
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NewsMiliband's CCG vision at odds with Burnham plan
Ed Miliband appears to have indicated that Labour would retain clinical commissioning groups as key decision making bodies in the NHS.
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NewsCare UK boss outlines expansion goal
The managing director of healthcare at Care UK has used an HSJ interview to express optimism that the company can increase its share of NHS provision, including through taking over the running of hospitals.
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NewsExclusive: Hospital chains win backing
Discussions have begun between national NHS bodies on how the provider landscape can be radically reshaped, including on providers forming national chains of hospitals and services.
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Northern Devon chief exec to leave
WORKFORCE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust chief executive Jac Kelly is to leave the trust in April after almost eight years.
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Staffing changes at mental health trust
South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust will be taking on a new director of nursing, following on from the recent appointment of Matthew Patrick as the trust’s new chief executive.
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Monitor closes South Warwickshire probe
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has closed its investigation into waiting times at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust.
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HSJ LocalTrust pulls out of George Eliot bidding process
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust has pulled out of the bidding process to run neighbouring George Eliot Hospital Trust, making it appear certain a private firm will be involved in its management.
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CQC lifts Bath warning notice after inspection
The Care Quality Commission has published its inspection report into Royal United Hospital Bath Trust, concluding it is providing patients with good care.
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Regulator finds good care at Nottingham University Hospitals
The Care Quality Commission has published its inspection report into Nottingham University Hospitals Trust, concluding its services are safe, effective, responsive, caring and well led.