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South Warwickshire appoints hotel services contractor
COMMERCIAL: South Warwickshire Foundation Trust has appointed Amey as its hotel services provider, the trust has announced.
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Trust's £2.5m overspend on staff pay bill
Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust has spent almost £2.5m more than budgeted on staff pay.
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Delays in over performance payments pose 'significant risk' to trust
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust is reporting a “significant risk” to its short term cash flow, partly due to delays in over performance payments.
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South Staffordshire and Shropshire in surplus
Finance: South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is in surplus, recent board papers show.
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NewsGovernance concerns over care.data project
NHS data chiefs have raised “concerns in respect to the governance arrangements” of the pioneering care.data project, according to papers published last week.
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NewsClegg: commissioners must step up to plate on mental health
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has urged NHS commissioners to “step up to the plate” on helping the government achieve parity of esteem for mental health.
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Liverpool funds Citizens Advice advisers in GP practices
PERFORMANCE: Every GP practice in Liverpool is to have access to dedicated Citizens Advice advisers to whom patients with non-medical problems can be refered.
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NewsBoards told to curb use of independent providers
Scottish health boards have been told to clamp down on their use of the private sector for treating NHS patients.
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NewsHealth database sparks privacy fears
Debate has reignited about the sale of patient records containing information on mental health conditions, diseases like cancer and habits such as drinking or smoking being sold to organisations such as drug and insurance companies.
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NewsCCG backs down in patient involvement procurement row
A clinical commissioning group leading one of the most high profile procurements in the NHS has agreed to publish commercially sensitive documents following a threat of legal action.
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NewsDr Foster founder joins CQC
The Care Quality Commission has appointed one of the founders of health informatics firm Dr Foster Intelligence to advise on how the regulator uses data to monitor health and social care providers.
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NewsMinister calls for OFT's merger role to be 'scrapped'
Care services minister Norman Lamb has said he wants the Office of Fair Trading’s role in competition in the NHS to be “scrapped”, and expressed concern over the costs and delays caused by the regulator’s intervention in an attempted foundation trust merger.
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NewsExclusive: Clegg to launch mental health action plan
Nick Clegg is next week expected to launch a national mental health action plan, advocating a further push towards “parity of esteem” between the sector and the rest of healthcare, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsTiny needles make jabs less painful
Scientists have designed smaller needles that take the pain out of injections.
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Doctor 'laughed at' consultant plea
A junior doctor was laughed at by a senior colleague when she suggested a consultant should examine a four-year-old girl who died hours later after suffering a severe infection, an inquest has heard.
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Seclusion rooms used as bedrooms by mental health trust
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust has been issued with a warning notice by the Care Quality Commission after an inspection team found seclusion rooms were being used as bedrooms.
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NewsTameside's Lorenzo difficulties continue
The first trust to accept a sweetener payment to switch to the Lorenzo electronic patient record system has admitted it continues to face a series of risks to patient safety and performance arising from its implementation.
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News17 January 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.Please note: if iPad users have been experiencing difficulties recently with the app we recommend you delete it from the homescreen and download the latest version from www.hsj.co.uk/tablet-appDownload the HSJ app for iPadDownload the HSJ app ...
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NewsMicromanagement won’t deliver value says business guru
Interview: Michael Porter on his “strategy that will fix healthcare”
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Trust appoints acting chair
The NHS Trust Development Authority last week announced the appointment of an acting chair at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust.