All Health Service Journal articles in 26 April 2013
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HSJ Local
CCG hears concerns over South Tees performance
PERFORMANCE: Board papers for Hambleton Richmondshire and Whitby CCG outline concerns over performance at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Local FT performance biggest risk to Harrogate CCG finances
FINANCE: Board papers warn that Harrogate and Rural District CCG’s contact with Harrogate & District NHS Foundation Trust “remains a key risk to the CCG’s financial position and therefore requires close scrutiny and management”.
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HSJ Local
Lincolnshire trust touts for more cosmetic business
COMMERCIAL: Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is offering people the change of a free cosmetic surgery consultation.
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HSJ Local
Facelift for Hull Royal Infirmary
STRUCTURE: Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is to invest over £8m to provide new windows and an external façade for its 160ft tower block on the Hull Royal Infirmary site.
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HSJ Local
Top gay equality ranking for Sussex Partnership
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Partnership has come top in the first ever Healthcare Equality Index, published by Stonewall to measure an organisation’s commitment to delivering services to the lesbian, gay and bisexual community.
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HSJ Local
New governors take up post at Bradford FT
WORKFORCE: New hospital governors have been appointed to the Council of Governors of Bradford Teaching Hospitals.
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HSJ Local
New nursing professor in Hertfordshire
RESEARCH: A new professorship in community children’s nursing has been created to support research into the experiences of young people with long-term conditions and disabilities.
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NewsAnti-smoking campaigns top PHE marketing list
A quarter of Public Health England’s marketing budget will be spent on stopping smoking
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News
London trusts fare poorly in national hospital patient survey
London is the worst-performing region in England for treating hospital patients with dignity and respect, according to the Care Quality Commission inpatient survey.
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CommentThe NHS has its own currency crisis
The currencies that drive activity and behaviour in the NHS are rooted in the past
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NewsHSJ Live 22.4.2013: Jeremy Hunt hits back at RCN critics
Minister clashes with nursing union over Mid Staffs response
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NewsJohn Oldham to lead Labour 'commission' on integration
Labour will set up an independent commission to examine how health and social care can be integrated to meet what Ed Miliband claims is the biggest challenge in the history of the NHS.
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CommentPodcast: Medicines optimisation in the new NHS
Charles Alessi and Malcolm Qualie discuss how to get the best out of the drugs budget
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CommentThatcher ducked the NHS fight, we have to face it
Thatcher’s handling of the NHS offers lessons for reformers
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: Changes and challenges for Leicester’s health economy
The changing face of Leicester’s health economy
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HSJ Local
Surrey and Sussex CSU deemed unviable
STRUCTURE: The Surrey and Sussex Commissioning Support Unit is to be closed after being deemed unviable.
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HSJ Local
Addenbrooke's Hospital wards offered cash to discharge patients
PERFORMANCE Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust wards have been offered cash incentives to discharge patients under a controversial new scheme to alleviate bed blocking.
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HSJ Local
Portsmouth ends year on plan despite overspends
FINANCE: Portsmouth clinical commissioning group ended 2012-13 in surplus despite overspending on its major acute contract.