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NewsAspirant FTs could have option to become a mutual
NHS trusts could in future choose between becoming a foundation trust or an independent mutually owned company as the provider sector becomes increasingly ‘fluid and uncertain’, HSJ has been told.
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NewsCQC recruitment difficulties threaten inspection targets
The Care Quality Commission’s struggle to employ enough staff to inspect all acute trusts by the end of next year has been flagged up as a “key risk” by its chief executive.
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HSJ LocalManchester redesigns leave staff 'confused' and 'fatigued'
A succession of service redesigns across Greater Manchester has left staff fatigued and confused, according to the chief executive of one foundation trust.
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NewsExclusive: Eight Morecambe Bay midwives face NMC action
Eight midwives who worked for the foundation trust at the centre of an inquiry into infant and maternal deaths could face disciplinary action
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NewsVideo: Hunt hails NHS for ‘rising’ to post-Francis challenge at HSJ Awards
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has hailed the health service for “rising magnificently” to the challenges presented in the Francis report into care failings in Mid Staffordshire two years ago.
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NewsCQC falls well short of targets after safeguarding errors
The Care Quality Commission has been strongly criticised by its own board after admitting to making thousands of errors in its handling of safeguarding worries.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe future for specialists is beyond a hospital’s four walls
Specialists can support and train GPs and nurses
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HSJ KnowledgeSchwartz rounds: spread 'small acts of kindness' among staff
Why the rounds are growing in popularity
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NewsCSU boss appointed NHS England regional director
A former commissioning support unit boss has been appointed NHS England’s regional director for the south
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HSJ LocalOxford University Hospitals chief Sir Jonathan Michael to retire
The chief executive of one of the biggest and most prestigious acute trusts in England is to step down, the trust has announced.
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NewsGuidance falls short on anti-bullying rules
New guidance that demands doctors and nurses are open about their mistakes does not include an explicit warning against staff obstructing or bullying their colleagues, sparking concern from campaigners.
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NewsNHS England extends drive for equality in senior posts
NHS England’s drive to boost the representation of ethnic minorities in senior positions will be followed by an equalities push on disability, sexual orientation and gender, its head of equality has said
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NewsWhistleblowing claimant 'not acting in good faith', tribunal finds
A psychologist who claimed she faced detriment at the hands of an NHS trust after whistleblowing about patient care has lost her case.
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NewsPrimary care 'in foothills' of modernisation, says NHS England director
Primary care has only reached the ‘foothills’ of transformation, Mike Bewick has said during an interview in which he predicts a “steeper fall” in the number of individual GP practices
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NewsHSJ reveals healthcare’s BME Pioneers
Clinicians, managers, patient advocates and diversity champions are among the names on HSJ’s second BME Pioneers list
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NewsSenior DH official: trusts ‘need’ IT directors at board level
Hospital trusts ‘need’ chief information officers on their boards and should treat IT as a leadership function instead of a back office one, Will Cavendish has said
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SupplementsInnovation through technology supplement: Let the tech flow
Why streamlining patient flow should be a priority
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NewsHospital nursing posts dip for second month in a row
The numbers of nursing staff employed in NHS hospitals has dipped for the second month in a row for the first time since the start of the “Francis effect” on nurse recruitment