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Sheffield Hospitals agrees main contracts
FINANCE: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has agreed contracts with its main commissioners, more than a quarter into 2013-14.
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West Middlesex asks for £7.6m bailout this year
FINANCE: West Middlesex University Hospital Trust has asked for a £7.6m bailout this year, board papers reveal.
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Oxfordshire delayed transfers three times the normal rate
PERFORMANCE: Delayed transfers of care are three times the target rate at Oxford University Hospitals Trust.
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Royal Cornwall FT application on hold
STRUCTURE: Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust has withdrawn its request to reactivate its foundation trust application due to board resignations earlier this year.
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NewsFTN urges Hunt to prioritise trust sustainability over competition
The Foundation Trust Network has urged Jeremy Hunt to prioritise trusts’ financial and clinical sustainability over concerns relating to competition.
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NewsLabour moots free social care for all
Labour is considering a radical plan to make social care free at the point of need and funded through taxation, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has said.
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NewsUPDATED: CSU 'axed' amid complaints from CCGs over cost and quality
Anglia Commissioning Support Unit will not continue as a standalone organisation following complaints from its customers over costs and the quality of its services.
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NewsCQC will 'campaign for more GPs and longer consultations'
The Care Quality Commission will “campaign” for longer consultations and greater increases in the GP workforce, its professional adviser on primary care has said.
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NewsHospital hygiene slammed in reports
Hundreds of hospital kitchens are dirty, have infestations of pests or are stocking out-of-date food, it has been reported.
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NewsPlaid Cymru demands paperless health service
Paper records for hospital patients should be scrapped and replaced with iPads, Plaid Cymru’s health spokeswoman has said.
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NewsNursing shortage drives hospitals overseas
More than a third of hospital trusts have turned to actively recruiting nurses from overseas as they struggle to keep wards adequately staffed, it has emerged.
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NewsPoliticians challenged to back service change ahead of election
Politicians and political parties will be put on the spot in the run-up to the 2015 general election to support major changes in the health service, under a plan developed by the NHS Confederation.
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NewsDH rejects criticism of delayed transfer of care measure
The Department of Health has rejected criticism of the measure it uses to track delayed transfers of care between NHS providers and social care.
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Oxford trust removes specialisms from the Horton amid high complication rates
PERFORMANCE: Oxford University Hospitals Trust has stopped gall bladder surgery at its Horton General Hospital after a Royal College of Surgeons review found higher than expected complication rates.
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A&E target being met at Sheffield hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust met the accident and emergency waiting target in the year to the end of July, despite greater than expected demand.
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HSJ LocalMonitor to probe CCGs' block contract
Monitor is to investigate a complaint that referrals to a private hospital dropped after two clinical commissioning groups entered into a block contract with a local NHS hospital.
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NewsDuty of candour moves closer with bill amendment
The government has paved the way for the introduction of a duty of candour through an amendment to the Care Bill – but the key question of when the duty would apply has been left open.
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NewsJudge blocks review of reconfiguration scheme
Ealing Council has been refused permission to take a hospital reconfiguration plan to judicial review.
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NewsWorking time directive for doctors to be reviewed
The government has ordered a review of how European rules limiting the number of hours doctors can work is affecting the NHS.
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NewsMP raises further concern over NHS gagging clauses
One of Britain’s leading children’s doctors has been asked to submit evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into gagging clauses, after controversy over the terms under which she left the renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital.