All UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST articles – Page 15
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NewsNHS complaints records available
Investigations into ‘devastating’ failures by public services that have led to patient deaths, suffering and financial hardship have been published today by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.
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HSJ LocalSouth Warwickshire agrees collaboration with George Eliot
COMMERCIAL: A West Midlands trust has agreed a package of support for the financially troubled George Eliot Hospital Trust, months after its bid to take over the organisation was scuppered.
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CommentArm the NHS to better serve injured veterans
Armed forces personnel often find the service fails to meet their needs
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News‘Buddy’ trusts could double their money under bonus scheme
The leading hospitals ‘buddied’ with failing trusts under the special measures regime received some £1.5m to cover their costs last year.
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NewsUniversity Hospitals Birmingham 'partners' with trust 150 miles away
University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust is to partner with a struggling FT more than 150 miles away in a bid to help the organisation make desperately needed improvements.
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SupplementsImaging: Putting PET CT to the test
Why the UK needs to radically expand the availability of PET CT scanning
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NewsUncertain future for Project Diamond funding
The future of funding for highly specialist treatments in various hospitals has been thrown into uncertainty after the Department of Health decided to stop providing a £62m budget that supplements it.
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HSJ KnowledgeSpending to save: The innovative response to the Francis report for the nursing workforce
How the focus on clinical practice is bringing about new ways of working at leading trusts
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Big FT chiefs: Trust independence should not prevent takeover
The chief executives of some of England’s most powerful hospital trusts have warned that the organisational independence of other providers should not be a barrier to them being taken over.
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NewsExclusive: 'Cost neutral' Francis policy has cost £2.5m
More than £2.5m is being spent piloting a government scheme to make aspiring student nurses work as healthcare assistants for a year before university courses
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HSJ KnowledgeJulie Moore: words of advice to my younger self
Dame Julie shares her leadership experiences
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NewsMoore: Nursing directors should 'over-recruit' by 10pc
Hospital managers should “over-recruit” nursing staff by 10 per cent in order to ensure the best quality care for patients, according to a former nurse who now leads one of the UK’s leading acute trusts.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhere is the evidence for promoting integrated care?
We are not measuring the impact on patients
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HSJ KnowledgeTransform nursing with strengths based recruitment
Recruiting via a “great ward sister” profile can restore confidence
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NewsJulie Moore: leading trusts could run hospital chains
Dame Julie Moore told HSJ she wanted to see top providers running chains of hospitals, arguing the district general hospital could be “redefined” as an outpost of a larger trust.
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NewsLeading foundation trusts explore moves into primary care
Two of the most powerful acute and tertiary trusts in the country are looking to expand into providing primary care to establish vertically integrated provider organisations, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsDr Foster identifies 13 trusts with high mortality ratios
Thirteen hospital trusts have higher than expected mortality indicator scores, according to an extract from the latest report by health analytics firm Dr Foster which has been shared exclusively with HSJ.
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NewsNHS 'wasted £40m' on utility bills
The NHS in England wasted more than £40m last year by paying too much for its energy and water, the TaxPayers’ Alliance pressure group has claimed.