All Health Service Journal articles in 16 February 2012
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NewsCommissioners intervene to prevent Furness maternity transfer
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has dropped plans to temporarily shut maternity and neonatal services in Furness after commissioners intervened to resolve its staffing crisis.
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HSJ Local
New chief exec appointed to BANES cluster
WORKFORCE: Ed Macalister Smith has been appointed to lead the Wiltshire and Bath and North East Somerset primary care trust cluster through its last year of existence.
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HSJ Local
CQC orders improvements at Great Western Hospitals FT
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has ordered Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust to make improvements to the safety of its operating theatres.
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HSJ Local
Great Western signs up with Swindon Town FC
COMMERCIAL: Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust has won a contract to provide MRI scans to Swindon Town Football Club.
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HSJ LocalGPs suggest 'radical' approach for Mid Staffs future
STRUCTURE: GPs in Staffordshire have proposed a “radical” approach to service provision at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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NewsNHS 'under-estimates' the cost of eye disease
Older patients may be missing out on sight-saving treatment because the NHS has seriously under-estimated the prevalence and cost of elderly eye disease, claim specialists.
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NewsBMA joins calls to slow down NHS 111 roll out
The British Medical Association has called on the government to “relax” the timetable for the roll out of the new non-emergency telephone number amid fears it could “destabilise” existing GP out of hours providers.
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HSJ Local
Royal Cornwall closes ward after allegations of poor care
WORKFORCE: Police are investigating “a number of” allegations relating to the care of a patient on a ward at the Royal Cornwall Hospital.
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HSJ Local
New chair for Shelford Group foundation trust
WORKFORCE: One of England’s most prestigious foundation trusts has appointed a new chair.
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CommentMichael White: the coalition may sustain heavy damage by seeing the bill through
What price Lansley’s eventual victory?
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LeaderThe Health Bill plan B is dead, but plan C lives on
David Cameron has made passing the Health Bill a matter of confidence – making it close to impossible the legislation will fail. We now need to ask what kind of bill will be passed and what will happen afterwards.
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NewsStandardised GP contract by 2015 is 'naive'
GP practices will agree and move to a new standard national contract within “two to three years”, the NHS Commissioning Board is estimating. The timescale has provoked warnings from leading GPs that the plan is “naive”.
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CommentCoastal configuration for vascular services runs aground
The proposed centralisation of complex vascular surgery in Hampshire has been mothballed after trusts failed to agree on the plans.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: an uncertain future for payment by results
Where is the detail on tariff for 2013 and beyond?
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CommentMental health provider under scrutiny in the South West
NHS Bristol’s decision to re-tender the city’s mental health service comes at a bad time for current provider Avon and Wiltshire Partnership Trust.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy engaging the workforce helps enhance service innovation
To fully capture and stimulate NHS service innovation, Academic Health and Social Care Networks must go beyond striving to bring remote research into practice and include a focus on workforce innovation. Laurence Benson explains.
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CommentMedia Watch: open season declared on defiant Lansley
Another week, another drubbing for Andrew Lansley. Papers reported with glee the latest twist in the Health Bill soap opera with senior Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes apparently breaking ranks to call for the health secretary to be “moved on”.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to choose the right treatment for community-acquired pneumonia
Clinical commissioners and providers alike need to ensure they are aware of the challenges of community-acquired pneumonia, says Professor Mark Wilcox.
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HSJ KnowledgeGive it to me straight: improving patient communication for better outcomes
The language used in the health sector can seem remote, robotic and worse, uncaring. Neil Taylor argues that plain speaking medical professionals would make everyone’s lives better.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy reconfiguration remains a difficult balance between commissioners and providers
The judicial process that saw a public consultation on children’s congenital heart services quashed following the Royal Brompton and Harefield Foundation Trust’s legal challenge has lessons for future NHS consultations, says David Mason.