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Vascular surgeon data ‘misrepresented’ by media
Questions have been raised about how data relating to individual surgeons’ mortality rates has been presented, both by the body that prepared it and the media.
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HSJ launches innovation hub
HSJ is launching an innovation hub on its website which will serve as a platform for the latest content, resources, research and projects happening in the field of innovation.
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Monitor probes Tees Esk and Wear over care failings
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has launched an investigation into Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation Trust to determine whether it has broken the conditions of its licence, after concerns were raised over the quality of its care.
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Mass resignations at struggling ambulance trust
PERFORMANCE: The non-executive directors of East of England Ambulance Service Trust have resigned en masse following a barrage of criticism from MPs and a withering report on the trust’s performance and leadership.
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Doctors brand CQC ‘not fit for purpose’
The under-fire Care Quality Commission is “not fit for purpose”, leading doctors have said.
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Join the conversation on how the NHS can become a seven day service
HSJ’s ongoing online conversation on how the NHS can deliver 24/7 working is drawing hundreds of responses from readers around the world.
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Individual trusts to publish surgeons’ data
Individual trusts’ websites will have to provide links to their consultants’ performance data – including mortality rates – by the end of July, under a flagship NHS transparency programme.
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Monitor findings stand on Cornwall competition complaint
COMMERCIAL: Monitor has upheld its ruling that Cornwall primary care trust should have been more transparent in its commissioning of learning disability services.
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Norfolk and Norwich University FT takes step towards paperless stroke records
COMMERCIAL: Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust has begun using a new software to support its drive towards paperless stroke records.
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Morecambe Bay emails destroyed despite police request
A backup tape which may have contained emails linked to an infant death at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay was destroyed despite a specific police request to retain records, HSJ has learned.
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Ambulance trust NEDs resign amid MPs' attacks
PERFORMANCE: Two non-executive directors are stepping down from the East of England Ambulance Service board following a barrage of criticism from MPs and a withering report on the trust’s performance and leadership.
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Oxfordshire CCG faces 'extremely challenging' year
FINANCE: Oxfordshire clinical commissioning group has already committed all its non-recurrent funding for 2013-14 to address projected rises in acute activity.
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Hundreds of medical students forced to re-sit exam
Hundreds of medical students at King’s College Medical School have been forced to re-sit an exam after it featured questions available on a smartphone revision app designed by an honorary lecturer at the college.
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CQC finds care failings at West Cumberland Hospital
PERFORMANCE: Inspectors have demanded improvements at West Cumberland Hospital after finding its staffing was “at times inadequate” and it was failing to maintain accurate patient records.
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Doctors acknowledge Liverpool care pathway concerns
Amid the recent “media frenzy” surrounding use of the Liverpool Care Pathway there were some “valid points”, British Medical Association representatives were told this week.
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Audit reveals life-threatening neglect of diabetics in hospital
A charity has warned some hospitals are doing “more harm than good” to people with diabetes, after an audit suggested thousands of patients each year could be developing a life-threatening but preventable complication due to poor care.
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CCGs claim leading role on primary care commissioning
Some clinical commissioning groups have told HSJ they are preparing to take a leading role in redesigning primary care, amid what they called a “hiatus” of action from NHS England.
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10 per cent admin budget cut could leave CCGs 'unsustainable'
The further 10 per cent real-terms cut in health administration budgets revealed in today’s spending review could render some clinical commissioning groups “unsustainable”, NHS commissioners have warned.
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Osborne announces tighter controls on pay progression
Pay progression for most health employees will from 2015-16 be tied “more closely” to their achievement of local performance standards, George Osborne announced today.
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Hunt dubs £3bn transfer to social care “huge moment in NHS history”
Health funding transfer to social care to treble in 2015-16