All articles by Sarah Calkin – Page 36
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NHS should have single regulator, Sir Ian Kennedy tells Mid Staffs inquiry
Former Healthcare Commission chairman Sir Ian Kennedy has used the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry to call for one “overarching body” bringing together quality and economic regulation.
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Seeking sustainability on the South Coast
News that Portsmouth Hospitals Trust is one of 22 predicted to struggle to gain foundation trust status because of a hefty private finance deal would have come as little surprise to the local health economy.
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DH 'tried to cover up hospital failure'
The Department of Health asked the Healthcare Commission to delay putting a hospital into special measures until after the 2005 general election, the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry has heard.
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Ambulance services eye savings by sending fewer ambulances
Ambulance services plan to save the NHS “tens of millions” by sending fewer patients to hospital, now the category B response target has been scrapped.
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Trusts struggling to hit accident and emergency indicators
Fewer than half of accident and emergency departments are on course to meet the new “indicator” for measuring the time taken to treat patients, an HSJ analysis suggests.
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Merger overseen by Nicholson did not spot Mid Staffs failings, says Bower
Disruption from a merger overseen by NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson contributed to the failure to spot problems at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, according to Care Quality Commission chief executive Cynthia Bower.
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Pennine Care's pull-out is 'nail in the coffin' of NPfIT
Pennine Care’s decision to pull out of the National Programme for IT is another “nail in the coffin” for the troubled project, it has been claimed.
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Mid staffs inquiry told "name and shame" approach of Dr Foster unhelpful
Publishing hospital standardised mortality ratios into league tables without establishing how much of the variation between trusts could be blamed on poor care was “irresponsible”, the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry has heard.
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Pennine Care pulls out of NPfIT
The mental health trust lined up to lead the way in adopting National Programme for IT software has pulled out of the programme after failing to go live almost two years after its due date.
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Patients 'isolated' by hotel style wards
“Hotel style” hospital environments can leave patients feeling isolated and nurses unable to prioritise care, the public inquiry into care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has heard.
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DH pharmacy consultation put on hold
A consultation on whether pharmacies should be allowed to set up services that primary care trusts do not believe are needed has been shelved.
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Mid staffs chief executive "morally wrong"
Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust’s 2008 request for £1.35m to fund more nurses at a time when it was predicting a £1.6m surplus was “morally wrong”, the public inquiry into failures at the organisation was told.
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Urgent care efficiency tool to get nationwide roll out
All urgent care providers should adopt an audit tool that has helped one area to cut acute emergency spending in half.
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South West trust clawing back every penny ahead of make or break year
The “financially challenged” Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has begun what is being viewed as a make or break year with a rare piece of fiscal good news.
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Foundation trusts call for more time ahead of new A&E indicators
Achieving the new accident and emergency clinical quality indicators will be “near impossible” for most trusts, the Foundation Trust Network has warned.
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Healey: government must drop part three of bill
The whole of part three of the health bill, which deals with the role of Monitor, must be dropped if the bill is to win Labour backing, shadow health secretary John Healey has said.
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Mid Staffs understaffing problems 'concealed' from board
A report highlighting major understaffing at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust was withheld from the board by the chief executive until foundation status was gained, the public inquiry heard this week.
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Portsmouth feeling heat over lack of FT application
STRUCTURE: A south coast trust tied to a £256m private finance initiative is being put under pressure to agree a timetable for achieving foundation status, despite being forced to drop an earlier bid.
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Confed calls for brakes to be put on personal health budgets
The NHS Confederation is calling on the Department of Health to delay a national roll out of personal health budgets to allow further evaluation to take place.
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Media watch: someone needs to get a grip on reforms
There was little room for domestic issues amid wall to wall coverage of events in Libya and Japan in the papers this week, but nevertheless the Sunday Telegraph managed to maintain the pressure on health secretary Andrew Lansley.