All Health Service Journal articles in 14 November 2014
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HSJ PartnersNew CQC rating system: Regulating for success not failure?
When to challenge the CQC’s hospital ratings and why
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NewsSpecialised services face £5bn gap
CCGs will take on responsibility for commissioning at least two of the six specialised service areas whose growth has placed the greatest strain on the specialised services budget
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HSJ PartnersHow providers should deal with scrutiny and balance service demands
Best practice from the Ridouts conference
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HSJ LocalSpecialist eye cancer service moves to Moorfields
STRUCTURE: Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust is to take over the management of a specialist eye cancer service run by Barts Health Trust, including all outpatient work.
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SupplementsSurvey results: putting pathology services to the test
How can healthcare organisations get the greatest benefit from pathology?
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NewsMorecambe Bay under fire on cancer screening services
A foundation trust has pledged to shake up the management of its breast screening unit after a probe found an “extremely poor” working environment that must be having an “impact on patient care”
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HSJ LocalElection delays Worcestershire review of acute services
STRUCTURE: Plans to close a financial hole due to open in Worcestershire acute services’ budget next year have been put on hold until after the May election.
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HSJ PartnersSupport end of life care at home through partnership working
Marie Curie makes a difference in Durham and Darlington
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HSJ Local
CQC hails care improvements at Bournemouth hospital
PERFORMANCE: Regulators have welcomed improvements in the quality of services provided by Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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HSJ LocalOxfordshire better care fund plan 'unrealistic'
Oxfordshire commissioners failed to submit a realistic better care fund plan in part because they were distracted by work on other local integration initiatives, they have admitted.
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NewsSmaller GP practices fared worse under inspections, CQC finds
Smaller GP practices have fared worse under the Care Quality Commission’s inspections so far because of the “splendid isolation” in which some are operating, Professor Steve Field has said
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CommentPolicymakers were too optimistic about the better care fund
Rethink how the integration policy works
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HSJ LocalYeovil signs estate partnership deal to create 'health campus'
PERFORMANCE: A small South West foundation trust has established a “strategic estate partnership” to fund and manage a new “health campus”, featuring a GP practice and nursing home.
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SupplementsCommissioning supplement: Sorting the good ideas
The NHS is looking to CSUs to bring health and social care together
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HSJ KnowledgeOut of bed and back home: improving acute elderly care
How new care pathways cut hospital stays
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NewsAccident and emergency bailout fund increases to £700m
Hospitals are to receive an extra £300m in government cash in a bid to arrest further decline in A&E performance over the winter
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HSJ PartnersPlanning for GS1: watch the e-procurement awareness webinar
Helping trusts to adopt a new e-procurement plan