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Community services trust's survival bid dealt blow
Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust’s attempt to avoid abolition has been dealt a blow after the consortium it joined to bid for a £800m older people’s services contract withdrew from the process.
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NewsHunt: Let care homes access GP records
Care homes should be able to access and update the GP records of their residents, the health secretary has said.
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NewsUnitedHealth confirms Optum rebrand
UnitedHealth UK’s chief executive has insisted in an HSJ interview that the firm’s NHS business will grow and also confirmed that the company will rebrand.
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NewsCCGs asked to agree support service decisions with NHS England
Clinical commissioning groups have been asked to present a business case to NHS England if they want to bring support service functions in house.
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NewsA&E chief calls for seven-day service
The man responsible for England’s accident and emergency departments has called for a seven-day service throughout hospitals to stem a jump in weekend deaths.
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NewsScottish health secretary says English NHS 'being handed to profiteers'
The NHS in England is being handed to “profiteers” while its patients are struggling to pay for prescription charges which are “a tax on ill health”, according to Scottish health secretary Alex Neil.
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News18 October issue of HSJ is ready to read on the app
This week’s issue of HSJ magazine is now available to read on our tablet app.Download the HSJ app for iPadDownload the HSJ app for AndroidOn the cover, we reveal the six questions that every non-executive director should be asking their organisation’s board. Also inside:CSUs are engaged in a “ritual dance” ...
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NewsDetails of £3.8bn integration fund revealed
The amount of progress clinical commissioning groups and councils make in working together next year will help determine their area’s share of the £3.8bn fund for health and care integration from 2015, it has been revealed.
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HSJ LocalDeputy chief leaves Keogh trust after merger collapses
The deputy chief executive of Medway Foundation Trust – one of the ‘Keogh 11’ investigated for high death rates – has left his role there.
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NewsWhistleblowers to be interviewed by CQC inspectors
Whistleblowers will be actively sought out by Care Quality Commission inspection teams to help them form regulatory judgements about healthcare providers, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsDrugs recalled over plant problems
Drugs made for leading firms including Superdrug are being recalled after inspectors found problems with manufacturing at an Indian plant.
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NewsBurnham tells councils 'caveats' will be placed on health role
The shadow health secretary has warned councils would not be given “free rein” under his plan to put the lion’s share of NHS funding in local government’s hands.
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HSJ Local
Chelsea-West Middlesex merger business case due by end of 2013
STRUCTURE: The merger of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust and West Middlesex University Hospital Trust could move a stage closer after the completion of the due diligence work this year.
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HSJ Local
North Cumbria takeover fails to proceed
The planned acquisition of a ‘Keogh trust’ by a neighbouring foundation trust failed to go ahead on 1 October.
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NewsExclusive: Mark Britnell rules himself out of NHS England chief race
Mark Britnell, who has been considered one of the leading contenders to become the next NHS England chief executive, has said he has not applied for the role.
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NewsLabour to force vote on CCG allocations
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has pledged to force a vote in Parliament over plans to redistribute clinical commissioning group funding on the basis of age.
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'Non-blaming' obesity tone advised
Doctors should not blame patients for being fat, according to new NHS guidance.
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Workload woes of GPs highlighted
Family doctors are “running around a hamster wheel just trying to stand still” due to their huge workload, a leading doctor has said.