South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1141
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Core GP services could be part of pooled budgets
The Department of Health has launched a public consultation on an amendment that would allow budgets for core GP services to be pooled with clinical commissioning group and local authorities’ funds.
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Leader
Politicians are still playing the blame game over whistleblowing
Neither side seems to note the irony
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Francis: CQC should probe whistleblower settlements
Settlements between NHS trusts and whistleblowers should be scrutinised by the Care Quality Commission to ensure organisations are well led, the Francis review has recommended.
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Exclusive interview: Francis insists whistleblowing measures have 'teeth'
New legal powers and regulations brought in over the last 18 months will provide ‘the stick’ to force the NHS to change the way it treats whistleblowers, Sir Robert Francis QC has told HSJ.
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DH backs shifting national safety functions to single body
The Department of Health has said it “makes sense” to combine national patient safety functions into one organisation, following today’s Francis review report.
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Government to study 'feasibility' of out of hospital avoidable death rates
The government will fund a national study into avoidable deaths in out of hospital settings to gauge the ‘feasibility’ of developing ‘locally attributable’ death rates.
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Hunt calls for whistleblower protection 'on statute books' before election
The government will aim to get increased safeguards for NHS whistleblowers on to the statute books before the general election, Jeremy Hunt has said.
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'Harrowing' experience of NHS whistleblowers revealed
The Freedom to Speak Up review heard ‘harrowing’ evidence of how some whistleblowers have been treated, according to today’s report.
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Francis unveils plan to fix 'serious problem' of NHS's whistleblower treatment
A new national independent officer’s role should be created with responsibility for overseeing the investigation and treatment of NHS whistleblowers, Sir Robert Francis has recommended.
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Trusts should employ whistleblower ‘guardians’, Francis says
Sir Robert Francis QC has called for every NHS organisation to employ a full time officer to act in an ‘independent capacity’ to hear whistleblowers’ concerns and raise them at board level, as part of his review into creating an open culture in the NHS.
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No binding powers for national whistleblowing 'officer'
A new ‘independent national officer’ role should be created to oversee and review the treatment of NHS whistleblowers, Sir Robert Francis’s ‘freedom to speak up review’ has recommended.
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Francis calls for stronger legal protection for whistleblowers
Ministers should extend the legal protection for NHS staff who raise whistleblowing concerns through a system to also help those out of work find new jobs in the service, the Francis review has said.
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Comment
Talk is anything but cheap: MPs in agreement can be dangerous
Mitochondrial donation and the danger of politics
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HSJ Local
Shrewsbury and Telford chief executive to retire
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust has announced he is retiring.
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HSJ Live 11.02.2015: Francis whistleblowing report and reaction - catch up
Sir Robert Francis has published his review of how whistleblowers are treated in the NHS. The health department has also published a its response, and a comprehensive update on other policy made in response to the Mid Staffs failures.
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Comment
The NHS safety record needs to be as good as the airline and motor industries
A systematic approach
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HSJ Local
Stafford Hospital inpatient surgery transferred
Surgical services and procedures requiring overnight inpatient stays have been transferred from the former Stafford Hospital to Royal Stoke University Hospital and Royal Wolverhampton Trust.