All Health Service Journal articles in 10 January 2014 – Page 4
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NewsGovernment 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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NewsFive 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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NewsA&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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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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HSJ KnowledgeWhy services aren’t working seven days a week
The challenges and changes needed to make seven day working in the NHS work
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NewsFinnamore bought by health giant
The health and social care consultancy Finnamore has been bought by the firm GE Healthcare, one of the world’s largest health technology companies.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe skills clinicians need to make QIPP work
Training programme case studies from Scotland and Wales
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NewsHSJ Live 08.01.14 Top health consultancy is taken over
Influential UK health and social care consultancy acquired by international health giant, and the rest of the day’s news and comment.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Board level culture undermines paperless ambition
Senior managers’ lack of knowledge about the clinical and cost benefits of improved IT systems is hindering progress towards the health secretary’s ambition for a paperless NHS, an exclusive HSJ survey suggests.
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NewsAnalysed: Practices urged to work at greater scale
NHS England’s planning guidance, which calls for GP practices to “work at a greater scale”, will not mean the end of single-handed practices, the national body has said.
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HSJ Local
NHS Wales chief takes top job at East Midlands trust
The chief executive of NHS Wales has been appointed to run Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust.
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LeaderIt is time to bring social care spending in from the cold
Remove the artificial barriers between health and social care
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HSJ PartnersInnovative use of data can improve end of life care
A shift in thinking can lead to a better patient experience
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HSJ KnowledgeTen key actions for excellent corporate governance
What NHS organisations should be doing now
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NewsQuarter of in-deficit CCGs lose out under new funding policy
More than a third of clinical commissioning groups that are underfunded according to the new NHS allocations formula will be even further behind their target share of funding by the end of 2015-16, HSJ analysis has found.
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NewsHSJ Live: 09.01.14 Yorkshire ambulance staff poised to strike
Concern that staff could work 10 hours without a break, and the rest of today’s news
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HSJ Local
Tube wrongly put in patient's lung
A elderly woman died from a combination of natural disease, stroke and the “misplacement” of a feeding tube into her lung due a hospital blunder, a coroner has said.
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HSJ Local
Never events at Barts Health Trust
Three never events have been reported by Barts Health Trust according to newly released data from NHS England’s that aims to provide detail on medical incidents that should not occur if proper practice is being followed.
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HSJ KnowledgeTrust cleans up its act with innovative audit tool
How Nottinghamshire Healthcare raised standards