All Health Service Journal articles in 10 August 2016 – Page 2
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CommentWhat if antibiotics stopped working?
Antimicrobial resistance is an unavoidable process of natural selection, but tackling the issue needs solutions that must be adopted on a global scale
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CommentJail for CV shows need for regulation
A statutory regulatory regime for registering and authenticating physiologists could avoid serious threats to patient safety
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NewsExclusive: Officials warn over 'extremely constrained' capital for STPs
STP leaders warned over capital funding and IT funding Officials say some areas will get “system control totals” Deadlines set to finish two year contracting process by end of December Health and local government leaders working on major regional transformation plans have been warned capital funding is “extremely ...
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News80 hospitals in GMC 'special measures' over safety and training concerns
GMC chief executive urges government to accelerate reform of professional regulators, including mergers Medical watchdog is developing a new intelligence system to analyse data and act faster over concerns Seventy-nine hospitals are being monitored because of concerns over standards of training or safety Almost 80 hospitals are being ...
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NewsDaily Insight: NHS data sharing gets a reboot
The must read stories and talking points from Wednesday
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NewsExclusive: Successor to Care.data awaits government sign-off
New digital services platform follows abandoned Care.data project It will be built with scale and flexibility to “take in all available GP data” Personal data flowing out of GP surgeries will have to be adequately anonymised for patients who wish to opt-out Care.data “set back” data sharing arrangements in ...
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Expert BriefingDeep South: The Southern Health carve-up continues
Weekly updates and essential insight into the NHS in the South West, by Will Hazell
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HSJ LocalTrust to face legal challenge over A&E closure
LEGAL: United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust could face a legal challenge against its decision to partially close the accident and emergency department at Grantham and District Hospital.
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HSJ LocalLondon trusts seek major savings through pathology consolidation
Imperial College Healthcare, Chelsea and Westminster FT and Hillingdon Hospitals FT to consolidate pathology services Service will run on a “hub and spoke” model, with £96m of savings expected over 10 years Pathology targeted by NHS Improvement for major in-year savings drive STRUCTURE: Three trusts in north west ...
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CommentSuccessful integrations can reap benefits for the NHS
The renewed interest in collaboration and integration amongst NHS providers is good news but we need to ensure the right transactions take place
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HSJ Local'Outstanding' CCG announces £8m savings target
Harrogate and Rural District CCG was given the top rating by NHS England last month CCG now says growing and ageing population is putting strain on its finances and it expects an £8.4m shortfall for 2016-17 FINANCE: A Yorkshire clinical commissioning group rated as outstanding last month has ...
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NewsDaily Insight: Commissioners aim for marginal gains
HSJ’s round-up of Tuesday’s must read stories
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HSJ LocalPrivate provider beats trusts and GP federation to community contract
COMMERICAL: Virgin Care has been named preferred provider to provide adult community services in the south of England as part of an alliance contract, ahead of a bid from local trusts and a GP federation.
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HSJ LocalCommissioners insist Virgin Care will make no 'margin' on Bath contract
Bath and North East Somerset CCG and council claim Virgin Care will make no “margin” on £69m community services contract Commissioners say company’s proposed information system “almost feels like nirvana” Contract will cap Virgin Care’s “management and organisational costs” COMMERICAL: A CCG and council in the South West ...
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HSJ LocalSouthern Health services continue to be disbanded
Hertfordshire Partnership University FT will take on some of Southern Health’s specialist learning disability services Contract covers people living in Buckinghamshire and will focus on community care Southern Health divested of services after recognising it could no longer offer the area a “safe and effective” service RECONFIGURATION: Hertfordshire ...
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NewsHEE to re-run job appointment after royal college complaint
Health Education England has said it will re-run the appointment process for the head of Yorkshire and the Humber School of Radiology after the appointment of a radiographer led to complaints by a medical royal college.
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CommentDress for the job at hand: understanding tribalism
Conforming to expectations in the way you dress is an unspoken rule of professional life - just don’t isolate yourself from other groups
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NewsRevealed: £6m spent on redundancies at closed CSUs
The bill for redundancies following the shutting of two commissioning support units reached more than £6m, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS Improvement alert aims to improve acute kidney injury care
NHS Improvement patient safety alert issued with new resources for providers Help includes guidance on improving recognition and treatment of acute kidney injury Improvement in treatment of AKI is included in national CQUIN payments A patient safety alert has been issued by NHS Improvement to help NHS providers ...
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