News – Page 983
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NewsCarruthers seeks to 'raise the bar' for reconfiguration referrals
Councils will need to provide “more convincing” evidence when they oppose NHS reconfigurations such as hospital closures, according to the health chief in charge of a review on the subject.
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NewsMerging foundation trusts sign competition undertakings
The providers involved in the first merger between two foundation trusts have signed up to undertakings restricting how they can communicate with each other.
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GP claims his CCG is pressing savings 'beyond point of safety'
STRUCTURE: Doctors at a Nottinghamshire GP practice have warned they are being “pushed beyond the point of safety” to save money for their clinical commissioning group.
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NewsKelsey plans action on health technology education
The NHS Commissioning Board will work with a charity to offer 100,000 people access to training in online health literacy over the next year, it has announced.
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Review suggests reducing Redditch A&E
A major review of acute services in Worcestershire has recommended reducing the number of patients being seen at Alexandra Hospital in Redditch by around a quarter.
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Leeds campaigners win heart surgery case
STRUCTURE: Campaigners have won a high court challenge over the decision to remove children’s heart surgery services from Leeds.
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NewsCall for more emergency surgeons
Leading doctors have warned that two few surgeons are trained to handle emergency cases.
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NewsExclusive: Government confirms CCG quality premium rules
Legal regulations are expected to confirm shortly that the clinical commissioning group quality premium bonus can be paid to individual GP practices but must “improve services for patients”, HSJ has learned.
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NewsBoard approaches Mark Britnell over deputy chief role
Former NHS director general Mark Britnell has been approached about the possibility of becoming the NHS Commissioning Board’s deputy chief executive, it has emerged.
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Buckinghamshire QIPP plan to fall short by a third
FINANCE: Buckinghamshire’s attempts to reduce activity were off target due to quality, innovation, productivity and prevention plan slippages.
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Epsom and St Helier meets waiting targets but behind in some specialties
PERFORMANCE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust is hitting waiting time targets for the year-to-date but has backlogs in three specialities.
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Royal United struggles for capacity
PERFORMANCE: High levels of activity at Royal United Hospital Bath has seen the trust forced to keep open about 50 extra beds at the beginning of the year.
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Serco out-of-hours fell 'unacceptably short'
PERFORMANCE: Cornwall’s Serco run out-of-hours service fell “unacceptably short” of essential standards of quality and safety, the chair of the public accounts committee has said.
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Strike threat at Yorkshire Ambulance Service
WORKFORCE: Hundreds of frontline staff at an ambulance trust could be taking strike action by the end of the month.
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Royal Cornwall's response to concerns 'less than adequate'
PERFORMANCE: Failure to respond properly to concerns raised by staff at Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust allowed a potentially unsafe doctor to continue to operate for more than ten years, a report has found.
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NewsSave hospitals 'for seriously ill'
Caring for patients in the community and their own homes and saving hospitals for the seriously ill and those needing complicated operations could be the way forward for the NHS, a report has claimed.
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Non-elective activity drives Bath cluster overspend
FINANCE: The Wiltshire and Bath and North East Somerset primary care trust cluster was overspent on its contract with Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust by £3.3m at the end of January.
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New nursing director for Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust
WORKFORCE: Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed a new nursing director.
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Trust acknowledges errors in care of patient found hanged
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust has said it “sincerely regrets” the shortcomings in the care provided to a man with mental health problems who was found dead at his home last year.
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NewsExclusive: Regulators team up on 'failure and distress regime'
Monitor and the Care Quality Commission are developing a “single failure and distress regime” which aims to increase the consequences of quality failures for trusts.