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HSJ Local
Staffing crisis prompts transfer of troubled maternity unit
WORKFORCE: The troubled Furness General Hospital’s consultant-led maternity services are to be temporarily moved to a neighbouring county in a bid to avert potentially dangerous levels of understaffing.
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Comment
Readers' letters - 31 January 2013
This week’s letters include NHS Property Services chief Simon Holden responding to HSJ’s story about the company charging CCGs and a counter to Sir David Nicholson’s view that hospitals “very bad places” for older people’s care
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NewsJoin tech revolution or face 'serious repercussions', hospitals told
Hospitals face “very serious repercussions” if they do not have electronic patient records systems in place by 2014-15, the NHS Commissioning Board’s national director for patients and information warned last night.
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NewsIan Dalton quits NHS Commissioning Board for BT
Ian Dalton, the NHS Commissioning Board’s deputy chief executive, is leaving the organisation to join BT Global Health.
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NewsHunt compromises on Lewisham Hospital downgrade
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a compromise solution to the downgrade of services at Lewisham Hospital.
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NewsCare 'could consume half spending'
Health and social care could consume half of government spending in 50 years’ time, the King’s Fund has predicted.
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SupplementsGood decision - clinical decision support systems special report
Clinical decision support systems have the potential to both improve outcomes and cut costs. HSJ gathered experts for a webinar to debate how they can be best used in the NHS. By Alison Moore
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NewsHSJ live: Reaction and analysis: Lewisham to retain a 'smaller' A&E unit
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced Lewisham Hospital will retain a smaller accident and emergency unit, with 24/7 “senior medical cover”, following advice from NHS medical director Bruce Keogh.South London Healthcare Trust will be dissolved by October 2013.
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News'No correlation found' between quality and responsiveness to online complaints
Researchers have found no correlation between trusts’ responsiveness to online complaints and the quality of patients’ experience.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat 'safety cases' mean for healthcare
Safety cases are common in industry but how can they be applied to healthcare?
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CommentSally Gainsbury: putting a stopper on bungs
The DH and Monitor are in a quandry over EU competition rules
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NewsCCGs warned not to penalise mental health success
Clinical commissioning groups have been warned not to “reward failure” by siphoning money away from mental health services to support struggling acute trusts.
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LeaderCCGs' financial fears resurface
Leaders’ “worst dream” of recurring deficits is far from over.
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NewsAt least 10 PCTs to be bailed out by peers in 2012-13
At least 10 primary care trusts would face finishing 2012-13 in the red without loans or bailouts from their neighbouring commissioners, HSJ research has found.
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HSJ Local
Ashford and St Peter’s has HSMR of 103
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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HSJ Local
East Sussex has HSMR of 101
PERFORMANCE: East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust performed slightly below expected for patient mortality rates, according to this year’s Dr Foster “hospital guide”.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat Francis will mean for boards
Robina Shah talks to Mike Farrar about a post-Francis NHS
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SupplementsBusiness as well as clinical excellence: A roundtable debate
Should the NHS be more like Tesco? How much should clinicians influence commercial decisions? Does the service have the right skills, notably in procurement? Claire Read reports from the HSJ roundtable on business practices
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HSJ Local
North East Essex CCG has been authorised with one condition
STRUCTURE North East Essex CCG has been authorised with one condition in the NHS Commissioning Board’s second wave of CCG authorisations.
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HSJ Local
The Royal Marsden misses cancer referral target
PERFORMANCE: The Royal Marsden has failed to achieve the 85 per cent threshold for the 62-day standard of urgent referral to treatment, an NHS London report said.