All North West articles – Page 64
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NewsExclusive: Eight Morecambe Bay midwives face NMC action
Eight midwives who worked for the foundation trust at the centre of an inquiry into infant and maternal deaths could face disciplinary action
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SupplementsRoundtable: A new charter for integrated care
HSJ gathered a group of experts to discuss the integrated care challenge
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LeaderInspections must help answer primary care’s dilemmas
Steve Field singles out one ‘outstanding’ surgery
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NewsMorecambe Bay under fire on cancer screening services
A foundation trust has pledged to shake up the management of its breast screening unit after a probe found an “extremely poor” working environment that must be having an “impact on patient care”
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NewsCQC reveals first general practice ratings
The first two GP practices to be rated under the Care Quality Commission’s inspection regime have been assessed as ‘outstanding’.
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HSJ KnowledgeOut of bed and back home: improving acute elderly care
How new care pathways cut hospital stays
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News'Challenged' areas recovery plans demand integration and reconfiguration
The creation of new integrated provider models and capitated budgets are fundamental to the visions of the national ‘challenged health economies’, HSJ has been told
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NewsAnalysis: Distressed health economies' leaders doubt books will balance
Senior leaders in several of the NHS’s ‘challenged health economies’ are not confident their area will be in financial balance in five years’ time, even after months of intensive support from national organisations
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HSJ LocalLiverpool CCG funds hospital GPs
FINANCE: Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group has approved new funds to put GPs in two local hospitals in an attempt to alleviate pressure on accident and emergency services.
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NewsNHS England plans specialist radiotherapy overhaul
An overhaul of specialist radiotherapy nationwide could see the number of sites commissioned by NHS England reduced as the body seeks to improve efficiency and access
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HSJ KnowledgeRoot out inequality in breast cancer care
Asian women in the UK have very high incidence of the disease
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HSJ LocalCumbria mental health review will report on trust suicides
A review of mental health services in Cumbria will examine an apparent trend of patient suicides in connection to the local mental health trust, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMorecambe Bay inquiry delayed until February amid 'reluctant' witnesses
An inquiry into poor care at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay will not publish its final report until February as it tries to convince ‘reluctant’ witnesses to give evidence
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SupplementsIntegration Summit: Family fortunes
How nutritional intervention can turn around troubled families’ lives
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HSJ LocalBullying claim at cancer trust dismissed by High Court
WORKFORCE: A former associate director of Christie Foundation Trust who sued the provider for alleged bullying behaviour has had her case thrown out by the High Court in Liverpool.
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HSJ LocalPlan to shake up services at struggling North West trust revealed
STRUCTURE: Controversial proposals to transfer patients between hospital sites at a struggling North West trust have been revealed.
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NewsSmall hospitals could be paid more under forward view plans
Smaller hospitals could be paid more for the work they do in a bid to ensure they remain viable, under plans set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
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NewsDH sets new bailout conditions for foundation trusts
Foundation trusts could be ordered to sell surplus land or reduce the pay of senior managers as a condition of securing additional funding from the Department of Health
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HSJ KnowledgeIs 'zero harm' achievable for mental health?
Kicking off a culture change after Francis, Keogh and Berwick
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HSJ LocalLiverpool reconfiguration plans unveiled
Cancer surgery in Merseyside could be relocated to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, under ambitious proposals being developed to reshape the city’s health services