News – Page 905
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NewsAmbulance 'postcode lottery' costing lives
About 2,500 lives a year are being lost due to a “postcode lottery” in how ambulances respond to heart attack patients, a former service boss has claimed.
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NewsPlan to increase email security in £168m tender
A tender has been announced for a £168.1m contract to run the NHS’s email system over a five year period.
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NewsDominance of small GP practices undermines push for extended providers
General practice remains overwhelmingly dominated by providers on single sites with small lists, providing little beyond “core” services, HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsFrancis: patient advocacy 'more fragmented' than at time of Mid Staffs scandal
Robert Francis QC has warned that advocacy support for people who want to complain or raise concerns about health care services is “more fragmented” than when he investigated the scandal at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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NewsGPs should control community services, report says
GPs should take responsibility for out of hospital community services for patients under their registered lists, according to a report by the King’s Fund.
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NewsLiquidity problems forced trust to abandon George Eliot bid
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust was forced to leave the bidding process to run nearby George Eliot Hospital due to financial concerns, HSJ understands.
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Eye clinic plans paused following King's complaint
Plans for Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust to open an eye clinic at a hospital in Kent have been paused after another trust complained that no procurement process had taken place.
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NewsBid to update alcohol licence rules
Councils should be able to curb pub and off licence opening hours in a bid to cut costs and ease the pressures of alcohol-related admissions on hospitals, it has been claimed.
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HSJ LocalTrust boss 'sorry' for bullying culture
A mental health trust boss has called on staff to suggest changes after the damning results of a survey showed more than two-thirds of its workers thought there was a culture of bullying, fear and blame.
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NewsExclusive: Mental health trust threatens legal challenge over tariff
A mental health trust has told HSJ it is considering a legal challenge against the decision by NHS England and Monitor to impose 20 per cent higher cuts for mental health and community providers than for their acute counterparts.
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NewsUncertainty over Wye Valley future
The future of Wye Valley Trust has been plunged into uncertainty after the trust ruled out all three options on a shortlist to secure its long term future.
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NewsHSJ map: Large and extended GP providers
Selected GP federations and large-scale providers mapped
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NewsCaldicott: Information governance knowledge has worsened
The health and social care workforce’s knowledge of good information governance has deteriorated since the NHS reforms were implemented, according to the expert commissioned by the government to examine the issue.
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HSJ LocalTreasury delay risks 'smashing up' Papworth
Papworth Hospital Foundation Trust’s chairman has accused ministers of risking “smashing up” one of the “jewels in the NHS’s crown” by continuing to delay the trust’s move to a new site.
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HSJ LocalNew review of children's heart surgery in Bristol
The chair of the high profile public inquiry into paediatric heart surgery in Bristol is to lead a new review into the deaths of a number of children with heart problems at University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust.
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Patients operated on with unsterilised instruments
An investigation has been launched after nine patients at a hospital in the North West were operated on with surgical instruments which had not been fully sterilised.
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NewsTrust 'loses confidence' in PFI provider
North Cumbria University Hospitals has “lost confidence” in the private finance initiative contractor that manages facilities on its main site after a probe uncovered “major issues” with the way its operating theatres, water systems and gas pipelines were being maintained.
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NewsConcern at medical records sharing
Almost half of the public do not understand plans for sharing their medical records while 80 per cent of GPs are unclear how the data will be used, surveys have shown.
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NewsNICE rejects drug policy that 'values pensioners less'
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has rejected government proposals that would see an assessment of the benefits a patient may have on society being taken into account when deciding whether to pay for new drugs.
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CCG terminates community services contract with York
STRUCTURE: York Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust has agreed to terminate its contract to run community services in Whitby after agreeing that its current offer could be improved.