News – Page 956
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Date set for Royal Bournemouth inspection
PERFORMANCE: Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Foundation Trust is to be inspected by the Care Quality Commission from the 23 to 25 October.
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South Kent CCG confirms community hospital ‘will not close’
STRUCTURE: South Kent Coast Clinical Commissioning Group has confirmed to local residents that Victoria Memorial Hospital in Deal will remain open.
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South Kent CCG working on suicide prevention
PERFORMANCE: South Kent Coast Clinical Commissioning Group is developing a suicide prevention strategy.
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NHS 111 ‘fully up and running’ in Medway
STRUCTURE: NHS 111, the much-maligned new non-emergency phoneline service, will be “fully up and running” in Medway from 17 September, according to commissioners.
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CQC to visit Royal United in December
PERFORMANCE: Royal United Hospital Bath Trust is to be inspected by the Care Quality Commission from the 4 to 6 December.
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CQC to visit Royal Surrey in October
PERFORMANCE: Royal Surrey County Foundation Trust will be inspected and receive a performance rating under the Care Quality Commission’s new acute hospital inspection programme in October.
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CQC to visit Frimley Park in November
PERFORMANCE: Frimley Park Hospital Foundation Trust will be inspected under the Care Quality Commission’s new acute hospital inspection programme in November.
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CQC to visit Dartford before Christmas
PERFORMANCE: Dartford and Gravesham Trust will be inspected and receive a performance rating under the Care Quality Commission’s new acute hospital inspection programme in December.
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NewsNew standards planned for mental health crisis care
The government will impose new standards on mental health providers to force them to improve crisis care for patients across the country, health minister Norman Lamb has said.
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NewsPwC to support 'operational challenge' of new inspection regime
The Care Quality Commission is drafting in staff from PwC to help support the first wave of its new inspection regime, board papers reveal.
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NewsCaseload midwifery 'more cost-effective'
One-to-one maternity care before, during and after childbirth could save the NHS more than £300 per pregnancy, according to new research.
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NewsBurstow 'concerned' over actions of competition authorities
Former health minister Paul Burstow has told HSJ he is concerned about the behaviour of the Competition Commission and Office of Fair Trading following the Health Act 2012 coming into force.
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NewsUPDATED: Monitor questions payment by results for mental health
The mandatory rollout of a national payment by results tariff for mental healthcare providers in 2014-15 has been dropped by Monitor, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMore help needed for mentally ill to quit smoking
Health boards are being urged to examine the support they offer to people with mental illness to help them quit smoking.
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NewsBerwick review costs revealed
The Berwick review of patient safety in the NHS cost less than £100,000, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNew law will lead to prosecutions for poor care, says Lamb
The government will introduce a law to allow healthcare providers to be prosecuted for neglect and poor care, the care services minister Norman Lamb has indicated.
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Warrington and Halton plans £11m savings in 2013-14
FINANCE: Warrington and Halton Hospitals Foundation Trust aims to make cost improvement programme savings of £11m in 2013-14.
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Ealing Hospital in arbitration with Westminster CCG
FINANCE: Ealing Hospital is in arbitration with a Westminster clinical commissioning group, board papers reveal.
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Eastern Cheshire CCG has conditions lifted
STRUCTURE: Eastern Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group has had all remaining conditions on its authorisation lifted, NHS England has reported.
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Cumbria sets aside £9m for backdated care claims
FINANCE: Cumbria Primary Care Trust set aside £9m to allow its successor body to settle the backlog of retrospective continuing healthcare claims it received in the final year of its existence, board papers state.