News – Page 872
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Barts appoints safeguarding nurse after HCAs convicted of abusing patients
WORKFORCE: Barts Health Trust has appointed to the newly-created role of safeguarding nurse at Whipps Cross hospital after three HCAs convicted of abusing patients.
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Kent Community below average in PLACE scores
PERFORMANCE: Kent Community Health Trust scored below average for all four standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime.
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Below average PLACE scores for East Surrey social enterprise
PERFORMANCE: The East Surrey social enterprise First Community Health and Care scored below average for all of the four standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime.
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Below par PLACE scores for Medway social enterprise
PERFORMANCE: The social enterprise Medway Community Healthcare scored below average for all of the four standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime.
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Mixed results from first PLACE scores for Dartford and Gravesham
PERFORMANCE: Dartford and Gravesham Trust scored average for two of the four standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime – for cleanliness, and food and hydration.
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Central Surrey scores below average on PLACE standards
PERFORMANCE: Social enterprise Central Surrey Health scored below average for all four standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime.
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East Kent scores below average on three PLACE standards
PERFORMANCE: East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust scored well for the appearance of patient areas in the new patient-led ward inspection regime, but below average for standards on dignity, cleanliness and food.
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Below par PLACE scores for Medway FT
PERFORMANCE: Medway Foundation Trust scored below average for all four standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime.
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Coventry and Warwickshire to bid to take over George Eliot
STRUCTURE: A financially challenged NHS trust is set to launch an attempt take over a struggling neighbour in a bid to secure the future of both over the long term, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalLisa Rodrigues announces retirement
Lisa Rodrigues, chief executive of the Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust, has told HSJ she plans to retire next year.
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NewsGP budgets could be added to pooled integration funds
NHS England may contribute additional funding to bolster the £3.8bn integration transformation fund announced in the 2013 comprehensive spending review, Sir David Nicholson has said.
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NewsExclusive: Competition rules hold back quality, says Nicholson
NHS England’s chief executive has said the government may need to change the law because competition rules are standing in the way of improvements to NHS services.
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HSJ LocalNorfolk and Norwich to spend £2.3m on pathology pay offs
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust is set to spend an estimated £2.3m on severance and redundancy payoffs directly related to a regional reconfiguration of pathology services.
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NewsGP commissioning not accountable, says Burnham
The shadow health secretary has said he opposes “GP control or domination of commissioning” because it is not “accountable” and compromises “the public interest”.
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News'More time' on admin than patients
Doctors spend more than twice as much time on paperwork as they do on home visits, a survey suggests.
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NewsBurnham: NHS 'hearts and minds' behind my integration plan
NHS staff will back further reorganisation of the NHS by a Labour government because their “hearts and minds” are behind the party’s plans for integration of the health and social care systems, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has said.
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HSJ LocalBaby's parents condemn 'cover-up'
A “cover-up” into failings surrounding the death of a baby girl who was treated at a scandal-hit health trust was “unforgiveable”, say the child’s parents.
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NewsMiliband backs integrated health service
Labour leader Ed Miliband has said his party will seek to create an integrated healthcare system if it wins power in 2015.
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South West hospitals perform well against SHMI
PERFORMANCE: Five trusts in the south west had higher than expected mortality under the standardised hospital mortality indicator.
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Ambulance Service records highest absence rate in region
WORKFORCE East of England Ambulance Service Trust had the highest average sickness absence rate for the first three months of 2013 across the East of England region, according to HSJ analysis of official data published in July.