All Health Service Journal articles in 8 September 2011
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NewsStruggling providers to get above-tariff payments
Struggling providers will be able to ask Monitor for permission to raise their prices above nationally set “tariff” rates, under proposed government changes to the Health Bill unveiled today.
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NewsGovernment hits back over BMA 'high risk reform' claims
A call by the British Medical Association for the government to withdraw or further amend its health reforms, which they say pose an “unacceptably high risk to the NHS”, has been described as “disappointing” by the DH.
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News'Misleading' cancer screening programme under fire
The NHS breast cancer screening programme “misinforms” women and fails to disclose the harms of over-diagnosis, researchers have claimed.
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Staff arrested following death at hospital in Chichester
PERFORMANCE: Three staff at a Sussex hospital have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the death of a 77-year-old patient from a suspected overdose.
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Coventry and Warwickshire already £1.5m in the red
FINANCE: Trust board papers reveal a £1.5m deficit which includes a £0.6m overspend in non-elective activity.
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Birmingham Hospital physio joins Olympic team
WORKFORCE: A physiotherapist at University Hospitals Birmingham foundation trust is set to join the Great Britain women’s Olympic hockey team.
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NewsMPs call for PFI deals to be subject to FOI requests
The Commons’ public accounts committee has called for private finance initiative companies to be made subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
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Emerging Medway CCG sets out draft comms plans
PERFORMANCE: Medway Commissioning Group has published a draft communications and engagement strategy, focusing on reducing health inequalities.
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Staffordshire community providers form partnership trust
STRUCTURE: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust was launched as a new provider organisation on 1 September.
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Cumbria PCT agrees £164.6m contract with NCUHT
FINANCE: The PCT has now agreed a contract value of £164.6m in 2011-12 with North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust, its latest finance report shows.
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GP leads for West Hampshire CCG announced
STRUCTURE: Five GPs have been selected to lead the clinical commissioning group for west Hampshire.
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Community trust chief exec moves to regional role
WORKFORCE: Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust has announced that Sheila Adams-O’Shea is leaving to take forward a “key strategic piece of work” on behalf of NHS East of England.
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FTs eyeing North Cumbria takeover to present proposals to stakeholders
STRUCTURE: The four foundation trusts bidding to take over North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust will put their proposals to a “wide range of internal and external stakeholders” at a meeting in October.
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NewsLib Dems renew Health Bill concerns ahead of Commons debate
NHS reform will again raise coalition government tensions this week when MPs consider the revised package.
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NewsReforms risk 'the end' of the NHS - Robinson
The health reforms will spell “the end of the NHS” unless it is seen through fully and decisively by central management, Sir Gerry Robinson has warned.
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NewsStepping Hill nurse 'made a scapegoat' by police
A nurse who spent more than six weeks in custody was made a “scapegoat” when police “jumped the gun” as she was charged with contaminating saline, her lawyer has said.
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NewsMandarins and former ministers face the Mid Staffs inquiry
The public inquiry into the regulatory failures surrounding Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has resumed this morning for its final five weeks of hearing, with Sir David Nicholson just one of the senior Department of Health witnesses scheduled to give evidence this month.
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Comment'Leadership is key to preventing another Mid Staffs'
Antony Sumara, who spent two years at Mid Staffs as interim chief executive, reflects on what has been learned from the inquiry so far and what questions still need answering.
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NewsDH in talks for 'international players' to take on struggling hospitals
The Department of Health has held discussions about “international players” running up to 20 NHS hospitals, according to confidential emails.
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Whipps Cross reports rise in alcohol-related falls in summer months
PERFORMANCE: The east London hospital trust said the number of falls had risen in June and July.