All Health Service Journal articles in 6 February 2015
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NewsHSJ Live 03.03.2015: Unions divided over government pay offer
Health unions are divided over the government’s pay offer for NHS workers, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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Acute trusts mull marginal tariff complaint against CCGs
A number of acute trusts are considering launching an official complaint against their local clinical commissioning groups because of the way in which they have spent money designed to reduce emergency admissions.
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CommentThe NHS safety record needs to be as good as the airline and motor industries
A systematic approach
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HSJ LocalTrust still waiting for £4m to clear elective backlog
FINANCE: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust is still awaiting £4m of funding to help it clear its large backlog of elective patients waiting for treatment.
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HSJ LocalGloucestershire trust challenges CCG penalties
FINANCE: Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust has formally challenged a decision by its main commissioner to impose financial penalties worth a total of £2m this year.
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HSJ KnowledgeLend a tweet or Facebook status to help the NHS find better ways to deliver change
Help spread the message
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NewsHSJ Live 06.02.2015: Coalition health reforms 'damaging and distracting', says think tank
‘Historians will not be kind in their assessment’ of its record on NHS reform, says the King’s Fund, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsExclusive: 'Monopoly' fears over £350m scans contract
The decision to award a 10 year contract covering more than half of England’s PET-CT imaging service to a single company has created a ‘monopoly’ that could damage NHS interests, HSJ has been told.
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NewsRevealed: winners and losers of CCG support framework
Nearly 50 clinical commissioning groups will have to decide over the next month how they will access essential support services after NHS England decided their existing providers had no future.
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HSJ LocalBarts’ deficit doubles to £93m
FINANCE: The predicted year-end deficit of one of Britain’s biggest hospital trusts has more than doubled.
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NewsChange Challenge: Tell us your solutions to enabling change
On Tuesday we launch the second phase of our Challenge Top-Down Change campaign
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HSJ PartnersFast track palliative discharge services cut stays and admissions
Services in Glasgow and Lothian
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HSJ LocalMedway still has 'long way to go' despite improvement
PERFORMANCE: Medway Foundation Trust has kept its “inadequate” rating despite slight improvements found by a Care Quality Commission inspection team during its latest visit.
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CommentThe 10 year plan won't win Labour the keys to Number 10
Labour’s health strategy lacks flesh on the bones to tempt the electorate
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HSJ LocalRotherham FT leadership makes 'significant improvements'
PERFORMANCE: Rotherham Foundation Trust has made ‘significant improvements’ to how it is run, and is no longer in breach of its licence to provide services relating to governance, Monitor has said.
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HSJ Local
Morecambe Bay hires new chief operating officer
WORKFORCE: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust has appointed a new chief operating officer.
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NewsHSJ Live 04.02.2015: Barts' forecast deficit swells to £93m
London trust’s forecast deficit is around double what it was at the start of the year, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsExclusive: Monitor sets up 'engine room' for reform
Monitor is to set up a new directorate tasked with helping trusts improve performance and lead the regulator’s role implementing reforms set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View.