News – Page 929
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Rushcliffe overspends on Nottingham hospital contract
Recent finance board papers for Rushcliffe CCG reveal that the CCG is £1.8m overspent against its contract with Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Labour ward re-opens after £450K revamp
STRUCTURE: Warrington Hospital has completed a £450K revamp of its birthing facilities as part of a national scheme to upgrade labour wards.
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NewsMental health services suffer as hospitals 'suck in' cash
Clinical commissioners are at risk of undermining the government’s mental health strategy because they are prioritising the acute sector, it has been claimed.
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NewsBurnham backs central planning
A centrally planned health service is “inherently” more efficient than a marketised one, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has told the NHS Confederation annual conference.
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NewsGeneral practice safety reporting to be investigated
Low rates of reporting patient safety incidents in general practice are to be investigated by NHS England, the organisation’s director of patient safety has told HSJ.
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NewsUnsafe hospitals 'risking lives', says CQC figure
A non-executive director of the Care Quality Commission believes many NHS hospitals are still not safe, meaning patients’ lives are being put at risk.
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NewsNHS 111 line 'steadily improving'
The new non emergency NHS advice line is “steadily improving” health officials have said.
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Cambridge University Hospitals cuts 70 posts
WORKFORCE: Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust is cutting 70 posts to reduce payroll costs, it has announced.
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NewsWebsite offers guide to NHS reforms
Doctors’ leaders have launched a new initiative to help patients understand NHS reforms.
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NewsNHS creating 'older people's plan'
NHS bosses are creating a “vulnerable older people’s plan” to help alleviate the stress on accident and emergency wards, the health secretary has announced.
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HSJ LocalPeterborough and Stamford FT ‘financially unsustainable’
Debt-laden Peterborough and Stamford Foundation Trust is “financially unsustainable in its current form”, independent investigators have concluded.
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Queen Victoria records two SUIs
PERFOMANCE: Two serious untoward incidents were reported at Queen Victoria Hospital Foundation Trust in April. In one, being treated as a never event, an incision was made to the wrong side of the mouth but this was spotted before surgery commenced.
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NewsNicholson attacks criticism of GPs and 'tyranny' of politics
Outgoing NHS England chief executive Sir David Nicholson launched a sustained attack on the political debate around the health service in his farewell speech to the NHS Confederation.
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HSJ Local
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals working towards £17.3m deficit this year
FINANCE: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust is working towards a target deficit of £17.3m deficit in 2013-14, a board paper reveals.
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News£560m foundation trust dumps payment by results
One of England’s biggest foundation trusts has agreed a contract outside of the national tariff system for the past two years, its chief executive has revealed.
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NewsBennett questions Nicholson strategy
Monitor chief executive David Bennett has said the scrapping of the purchaser-provider split envisaged by Sir David Nicholson may not be in NHS England’s power.
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NewsExclusive: Chief inspector of hospitals revealed
Former cancer tsar Sir Mike Richards has been appointed as the first chief inspector of hospitals.
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NewsDistrict general hospitals look to private income
District general hospitals aim to tap into private market
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NewsAnalysed: District general hospitals look to private patient income
District general hospitals are increasing their private patient offerings
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NewsHunt admits Tories 'guilty' of blanket opposition to reconfiguration in past
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt admitted to delegates at the NHS Confederation that his own party and politicians generally had been “guilty” of knee-jerk opposition to unpopular reconfigurations.