All Reconfiguration articles – Page 60
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NewsMaternity services need radical reform - RCOG
Maternity services should be radically reformed so that women receive the best care in the right place, according to a group of leading health experts.
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NewsLansley heralds change in size and role of acutes
Andrew Lansley has used an HSJ interview to signal significant changes in the size and role of acute hospitals, although he insisted there was no certainty that hospitals would close.
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HSJ Local
Greater Manchester cluster considers plan to halve number of local boards
STRUCTURE: The cluster will this week consider plans to collapse the number of “locality boards” representing its member primary care trusts from 10 to five.
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HSJ Local
Barnet and Chase Farm report on Lansley's desk
STRUCTURE: The Department of Health has confirmed it has received the Independent Reconfiguration Panel’s report into hospital configuration in north London.
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NewsOverview and scrutiny panel responsible for 'a tragedy', councillor says
The former chair of a county council’s health overview and scrutiny committee has described the delayed reconfiguration of a trust as “a tragedy”, and blamed the local HOSC.
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NewsNicholson urges MPs to end obsession with bed numbers
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has challenged politicians to accept that health service modernisation will mean reducing the number of hospital beds.
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NewsExclusive: Lansley says hospitals exempt from 'over-managed' claim
Andrew Lansley has used an exclusive HSJ interview to exempt the acute sector from his criticism that the NHS is over-managed.
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NewsChase Farm is 'signal' ministers will not back major NHS change, says Hunt
The government’s intervention into the future of Chase Farm Hospital was “the signal” it would not support “courageous” decommissioning decisions, according to a former health minister.
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HSJ Local
North West London Hospitals delays merger case
STRUCTURE: The outline business case for a merger with Ealing Hospital and the provider arms of Brent, Harrow and Ealing Primary Care Trusts has been put back.
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HSJ Local
Poole and Royal Bournemouth press ahead with joint working
STRUCTURE: The chairs of Poole Hospital Foundation Trust and the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals Foundation Trust have signed a joint statement of intent, setting out details of how they will work more closely together.
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HSJ Local
Suffolk Mental Health Trust 'does not have' merger reports
STRUCTURE: Suffolk Mental Health Partnership Trust has said it is not in possession of independent reports into its planned merger with Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health FT.
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SupplementsManaging the new NHS - an HSJ supplement
This bumper HSJ supplement looks at the myriad of areas where organisations will need a firm handle, to manage the transition to a new, post-reform NHS.
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HSJ Local
District general hospital confirms it is going for independent foundation trust status
A financially-challenged district general hospital has confirmed that it will attempt to get to foundation trust status independently.
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CommentSupport for children's heart unit intensifies in the South
Nothing mobilises a community quite like a hospital reconfiguration. Especially, it turns out, when the service threatened with possible closure is a children’s heart unit.
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HSJ Local
Nicholson says region's FT pipeline risks going backwards
STRUCTURE: Sir David Nicholson has written to the board of a strategic health authority saying “there is a real danger that by the end of 2011-12 many of these [trusts in the pipeline] will be a position where their ability to achieve FT by 2014 will have worsened”.
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HSJ Local
Bristol looks toward united future for histopathology
STRUCTURE: “Significant progress” has been made towards the development of a single histopathology service for Bristol, following a joint appointment between North Bristol Trust and University Hospital Bristol Foundation Trust.
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HSJ KnowledgeBattling the elements: how one trust's fight for foundation status holds valuable lessons
Despite winter snow and a flu outbreak, a high profile trust reorganisation was pushed through in order to start addressing debt problems, low performance and poor service design. Their commitment may result in the rescuing of the trust’s goal of foundation status, as Daloni Carlisle reports.
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HSJ Local
Half of London's non-FTs need 'merger, reconfiguration or both'
STRUCTURE: The head of provider development told NHS London’s board in March that only half of the acute trusts in the capital “had a reasonable prospect of achieving FT status by April 2014 as they were”.
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HSJ Local
Oxfordshire learning disability trust plans merger
STRUCTURE: Oxfordshire Learning Disability Trust has been working with the South Central strategic health authority to enter into a merger and acquisition process.
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CommentLondon trusts encouraged by delayed 'drop dead' date for FT status
So what does the slackening off of the pressure behind the foundation trust pipeline mean for London, the most stubborn of regions in resisting an all-FT health service?