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East Kent hospitals awarded £2m for renal study
RESEARCH: Researchers at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust have been awarded £2m to lead a multicentre study investigating different ways of assessing kidney function.
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NewsMonitor deputy chair issues warning on failure regime
The outgoing deputy chairman of Monitor today suggested the NHS still did not have an effective failure regime and called on politicians to relinquish ultimate control over what happened to financially failed trusts.
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East Surrey radiotherapy unit due to open in spring
STRUCTURE: Staff at East Surrey Hospital performed a traditional “topping out” ceremony for its new state of the art radiotherapy facility in Redhill this month.
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Sussex community provider pays all staff ‘living wage’
WORKFORCE: Sussex Community Trust has become the first NHS organisation in Sussex to achieve accreditation as a “Living Wage Employer”.
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NewsGovernment announces A&E fund winners
The government today announced the allocation of its £250m fund for the trusts thought to be most at risk of failing their accident and emergency targets this winter.
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NewsMike Farrar to leave NHS
Mike Farrar is to step down from the NHS Confederation and will not apply to become NHS England chief executive, he announced today.
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Mid Staffs plans £5.5m savings in 2013-14
FINANCE: Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust aims to make cost improvement programme savings of £5.5m in 2013-14.
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Mid Cheshire plan £5.9m savings in 2013-14
FINANCE: Mid Cheshire Hospitals aims to make cost improvement programme savings of £5.9m in 2013-14.
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Oxford trust targets workforce cost savings
FINANCE: Oxford University Hospitals Trust is to focus its cost improvement programme on workforce savings.
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Devon Partnership looks to save with nurse prescribing
WORKFORCE: Devon Partnership Trust plans to save money by rolling out non-medical prescribing for certain drugs. However, nurses and other clinicians who take on the extr responsibility will not be paid more.
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Coventry and Warwickshire chalks up £4.6m deficit
FINANCE: University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire reported a deficit of £4.6m in July - £400,000 better than the plan submitted to the NHS Trust Development Authority at the beginning of the year.
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Three south west trusts launch joint IT procurement
COMMERCIAL: Three south west trusts have launched a joint tender for a new electronic health record system.
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NewsRoyal college to say hospital reconfiguration is 'inevitable'
Reconfiguration of hospital services is “inevitable” if better standards of hospital care are to be achieved, a major Royal College of Physicians report is expected to say.
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NewsGPs failing elderly patients: Hunt
A “much better way” is needed for “vulnerable old people to journey through the NHS”, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
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News'Opt-out' organ system becomes law in Wales
A new law creating the first opt-opt organ donation system in the UK is to be rubber-stamped at a special ceremony on 10 September.
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NewsNHS England warning: Monitor's proposals 'could put services at risk'
NHS England has warned that some of Monitor’s proposals for securing fairer competition between NHS and independent sector providers could “put the continuation of certain services at risk”.
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HSJ LocalTen bidders announced for £800m older people's contract
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group today announced the 10 bidders that have passed the first stage of a contest to provide integrated older people’s services worth up to £800m.
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Barts scores well on Friends and Family Test
PERFORMANCE: Barts Health Trust has scored well on the Friends and Family Test.
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Central London CCG aims for £11m savings
FINANCE: Central London Clinical Commissioning Group is aiming for £11m savings in 2013-14, board papers reveal.
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NewsTwitter chat: is A&E on the brink of a crisis?
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