All Reconfiguration articles – Page 24
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News
Exclusive: Senior clinicians 'recommend merger' of two teaching hospitals
The boards of Liverpool’s two university teaching hospital trusts are to consider a joint report from their senior clinicians that recommends merging the organisations, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ Local
'Deficiencies’ in takeover of learning disability unit where teenager died
There were ‘deficiencies’ in Southern Health Foundation Trust’s takeover of a learning disability service in the care of which a vulnerable teenager later died, an independent review has concluded.
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News
North East considers health budget devolution
However, leaders could still walk away from the region’s devolution deal if residents overwhelmingly reject the proposals which include an elected mayor
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HSJ Local
New review backs long standing vascular centralisation proposal
STRUCTURE: Vascular services in south Hampshire should be concentrated in a specialist centre at University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, an expert review has concluded.
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News
Exclusive: Julie Moore to run two Birmingham FTs
Dame Julie Moore, the chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust, is to take over the leadership of its troubled neighbour Heart of England FT, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
'Inaccurate' email sparks row over Manchester hospital reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: Doctors have been accused of distributing ‘inaccurate’ information as part of their campaign to retain emergency and high risk general surgery at a major teaching hospital in Manchester.
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HSJ Local
North East bosses seek to move patients back to York following hospital closure
Mental health services in York have transferred to a new provider as planned, after the sudden closure of a psychiatric hospital threatened to delay the process.
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HSJ Local
Updated: Hospital rebuild set to drive shake up of city's blood cancer services
STRUCTURE: Commissioners have agreed to help fund a £36m extension to a new cancer hospital being built in Liverpool, to make possible a reconfiguration of the city’s fragmented blood cancer services.
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News
Stevens hires national leads for specialised, primary and cancer care
NHS England has appointed Jonathan Fielden and Arvind Madan to lead its work on specialised services and primary care respectively.
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HSJ Local
King's Lynn ‘up for’ radical restructure to stave off £39m deficit
Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn Foundation Trust is planning a radical restructure after an independent review said it faced a £39m funding deficit by 2018-19.
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HSJ Local
Planning approval granted for new hospital despite CCGs’ doubts
COMMERCIAL: Planning approval has been granted for a new hospital build in Hampshire, despite local clinical commissioning groups’ doubts about the affordability of the reconfiguration project.
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HSJ Local
Essex mental health trusts consider merger
STRUCTURE: Two mental health trusts are considering a merger against the backdrop of commissioners who plan to de-fund secondary community services for ‘most’ mental health conditions.
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HSJ Local
Former HEFT chief to lead biggest ever GP partnership
STRUCTURE: GPs in Birmingham will launch what is thought to be the largest ever ‘super partnership’ in the NHS next month, merging at least 35 practices into a single organisation.
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News
Exclusive: ‘Trusts with no future’ list on hold again
Plans to publish a list of NHS trusts unlikely to have a future as independent organisations have been put on hold, the NHS Trust Development Authority has indicated.
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HSJ Local
Community hospitals face closure under Surrey CCG proposals
STRUCTURE: A review of five community hospitals by Surrey Downs Clinical Commissioning Group has set out four options for future community care, which include the closure of two hospitals.
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HSJ Local
Doctors seek judicial review of Manchester emergency surgery shake-up
STRUCTURE: A group of doctors is set to launch a judicial review of the decision to remove emergency and high risk general surgery from Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester.
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HSJ Knowledge
Lambeth: The area with an appetite for service change
It started with open breakfast meetings
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Comment
A successful NHS merger is the exception, not the rule
They should not be a response to failure