News – Page 903
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NewsNICE: community centres best placed to tackle health inequalities
Councils can do more to encourage older people to attend NHS health checks as part of their new public health role, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has said.
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News'Crippling costs' of sick babies
The parents of premature and sick babies face “crippling costs” such as hospital parking charges and needing to buy food on-site, a charity has said.
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NewsExclusive: Dismay over moratorium on mental health commissioning
An NHS England moratorium on commissioning new specialist mental health services has exacerbated the sector’s bed shortage and led to a newly constructed hospital unit standing empty for six months, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsMid Staffs to be dissolved
The health secretary today announced that Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust would be dissolved in line with the recommendation of the trust’s special administrators.
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NewsThird of trusts in breach of sharps rules
A third of hospital trusts in England are failing to comply with safety regulations designed to reduce the risk of needlestick injuries to nurses and other frontline staff, according to latest research.
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NewsNICE calls for training to help victims of domestic violence
Nurses, social workers, health services and the organisations they work with must be better trained to understand domestic violence and help those experiencing it, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence has said.
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NewsAnalysis: Flat waiting list bucks seasonal trend
The national elective waiting list hovered just below 3 million throughout the autumn – in defiance of the seasonal pattern seen in recent years – in one of the clearest indications so far of the pressure on the acute sector.
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HSJ LocalDecision due on Mid Staffs dissolution
The health secretary is set to announce his decision on whether the scandal-hit Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust should be dissolved.
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NewsNurse workload 'linked to death rates'
Nursing cutbacks are directly linked to higher patient death rates in hospitals, a major study has found.
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NewsNAO: Monitor delivers 'value for money'
Monitor’s capacity to regulate foundation trusts in difficulty may come under “unsustainable pressure” due to the growth in risk across the sector, the National Audit Office has found.
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NewsUPDATED: Health bosses 'undermine trust' in patient database, say MPs
Members of the Commons health committee criticised the NHS’s handling of the care.data project, in a heated evidence session yesterday.
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Follow it live: health committee on Care.data
Live tweeting from the Commons health committee as it hears evidence about the troubled data scheme
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NewsUpdated: NHS staff report better communication with managers
There has been an improvement in communication between senior managers and staff after the issue was highlighted in the Francis report, according to the results of the NHS Staff Survey, published today.
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HSJ LocalBug-hit surgeon starts court fight
A heart surgeon who has not returned to work since five of his patients died after becoming infected with an antibiotic resistant bug during valve replacements has launched High Court proceedings against his employer.
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NewsIncrease in NHS land designated for housing
Proposals to sell hospital sites contributed to an 11 per cent rise in the area of land being designated for sale for housing by English NHS organisations in 2012.
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NewsHospital death data 'distraction'
Questions have been raised over the value of mortality statistics published for NHS hospitals, after an academic taking part in a review of their use branded them “spurious” and said the public would be better off ignoring them.
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NewsFoundation trusts overspend on agency staff
The foundation trust sector massively overspent on contract and agency staff in the final three months of last year, Monitor data shows.
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HSJ LocalEnglish trust to stop cross-border elective work
A trust near to the Welsh border will stop carrying out non-specialised planned care on behalf of a number of Welsh NHS bodies following what it describes as “continuing payment issues”.
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HSJ LocalNew chief executive for Wye Valley
WORKFORCE: Wye Valley Trust has appointed a new chief executive.
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NewsCSUs required to offer outcomes based contracting support
Support service providers will be required to offer commissioners help with drawing up innovative outcomes based contracts, according to a set of procurement rules to be unveiled today.