All Health Service Journal articles in 10 January 2014 – Page 2
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HSJ Local
Royal Devon seeks solution to poor stroke performance
STRUCTURE: Stroke care in the Exeter area may need to be restructured in order to meet key performance targets, board papers reveal.
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News
A&Es meet four-hour target
Accident and emergency departments together managed to meet the four hour waiting time target between October and December, according to NHS England data.
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News
Five hundred staff face redundancy from NHS Direct
Hundreds of members of staff at a failed provider to the troubled NHS 111 helpline have been told they face losing their jobs.
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News
Government offers £10m boost for maternity units
Hospitals are to be given millions of pounds to help spruce up their maternity wards, the Department of Health has announced.
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Comment
Michael White: Can any ministers pass the Farage test?
Tories and Labour need get their acts together in 2014
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News
Hospital worker 'ashamed' of tweets
A hospital worker has spoken of how he feels “embarrassed and ashamed” over a series of tweets he posted, including a comment that he was going to use pubic hair shaved from a patient to create the sideburns sported by Olympic cycling champion Sir Bradley Wiggins.
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News
Repeat patients add to A&E pressure
A small group of NHS patients are adding to pressures on accident and emergency departments by going to casualty dozens of times a year, according to an investigation by the BBC.
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News
Monitor kicks off independent provider licencing process
Monitor is now accepting applications for licences from the independent sector, the regulator has announced.
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News
Nigel Edwards to head Nuffield Trust
The Nuffield Trust has announced that Nigel Edwards will take on the role of chief executive from April.
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News
Influential MP to demand greater CCG accountability
An influential Conservative MP is planning to raise concerns in the Commons about a lack of accountability in the reformed NHS, and the government potentially missing commitments to improve cancer outcomes.
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News
EXCLUSIVE: Circle mulls bid to partner Peterborough with Hinchingbrooke
Private provider Circle could table a rescue bid for debt-stricken Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals Foundation Trust involving partnering it with nearby Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust, HSJ has been told.
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News
HSJ Live 07.01.14 Colchester acting chief exec resigns
Reaction to the resignation of the acting chief executive of Colchester University Foundation Trust - the hospital under investigation by police over allegations of cancer data manipulation.
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HSJ Knowledge
Rising Stars: Essential reading on NHS portfolio careers
Looking at the benefits for doctors and the health service
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News
Royal college condemns obesity surgery stand-off
The Royal College of Surgeons has condemned a stand-off between local and national commissioners over surgery for the morbidly obese.
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News
Mental health nurses to be based in police centres
Mental health nurses are to be based at some of England’s police stations and courts as part of a new pilot scheme.
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News
Richards: compassion 'alive and well' in NHS
Compassion in the NHS is “alive and well”, according to England’s chief inspector of hospitals.
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News
Analysed: England's national workforce plan
The growing and contracting staff groups are revealed in Health Education England’s proposal to allocate the NHS’s £5bn education and training budget
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News
HSJ Live: 06.01.14 Royal college condemns obesity surgery stand-off
The Royal College of Surgeons has condemned a stand-off between local and national commissioners over surgery for the morbidly obese, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment.
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News
Patients asked to opt out or be included in database
NHS England has begun sending leaflets out to every household in England to inform residents that information from their patient records will be used in a national database unless they actively opt out.