All Health Service Journal articles in 10 January 2013 – Page 4
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NewsHSJ Live: rolling news 3.1.13
A foundation trust is found guilty of maladministration and the rest of today’s news
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HSJ Local
Leicestershire trusts sign £700m shared services deal
Interserve has signed a shared services deal worth up to £700 million with a group of Leicestershire NHS trusts.
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NewsCouncils to be given 'above-inflation' public health budget rises
Councils will be told of their public health budgets by 11 January – and will be given above-inflation increases in the next two years, the head of Public Health England has said.
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NewsCameron demands extension of friends and family test
The prime minister has given his backing to plans to roll out the friends and family test to primary care, as part of a package of measures to be unveiled today to improve the quality of services.
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NewsNICE to back use of Lucentis for eye condition
Thousands of people with a devastating eye condition could be offered a potentially sight-saving treatment following a U-turn by the health watchdog.
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Morecambe Bay review 'must get things right'
Listening to the views of staff and patients will be crucial in ensuring a foundation trust moves forward in the right way as it aims to save £50m over the next five years, its chief executive has said.
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Trust refers 248 staff to debt collectors following salary overpayments
Barts and the London Trust referred 248 of its staff to debt collectors after overpaying them by a total of £1m last year, documents obtained by HSJ reveal.
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HSJ Local
New chief executive for mental health FT
John Short, interim chief executive at Leicestershire Partnership Trust, has been appointed head of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Croydon Health Services Trust appoints interim chair and interim chief operating officer
STRUCTURE: NHS London has appointed two members of its own board to the board of Croydon Health Services Trust.
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HSJ Local
Plymouth eye hospital plans move
STRUCTURE: Plymouth Hospitals Trust’s Royal Eye Infirmary will move into purpose built facilities at the trust’s main site this month as part of plans to enhance the opthalmology services.
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HSJ KnowledgePeer support works on the road to recovery
A mental health trust is training former service users to help others
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NewsHSJ live: rolling news 7.1.2013
The reaction to the weekend speculation on the report into Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust and the rest of HSJ’s free rolling news coverage
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NewsGP concern over child medical data
GPs are increasingly concerned about releasing children’s medical records to separated or divorced parents, experts have revealed.
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Social enterprise consults lawyers over lost out-of-hours contract
A social enterprise has consulted lawyers after losing the contract to supply GP out-of-hours services in two London boroughs to a Bristol-based company.
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NewsCCGs must lead service change, says Confed chair
The new chair of the NHS Confederation has said the future of clinical commissioning groups depends on whether they can succeed in pushing through service change.
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NewsCoalition set to announce care reforms
The government is to announce reforms to social care funding as a key part of its mid-term coalition relaunch this afternoon.
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NewsProviders 'nervous' about commissioning board role in contract disputes
NHS providers have called for clarification about who will arbitrate in contract disputes with commissioners once strategic health authorities are abolished.
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HSJ Local
Bristol Community Health wins out-of-area contract
COMMERCIAL: Bristol Community Health has won a contract to provide continuing healthcare and funded nurses in South Gloucestershire.
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HSJ Local
Activity well above plan at Great Western
FINANCE: Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust has identified a risk of non-payment for activity of £1.5m.