All Health Service Journal articles in 10 November 2011
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CommentMichael White: let's back the public sector plan B
At the weekend I rang an old trade union friend, a veteran of countless public sector negotiations, disputes and occasional strikes, to hear him contradict my own excessively rational view (“don’t do it, comrades”) of the pensions dispute which threatens NHS services this month.
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North Bristol awards call bell contract for new PFI
COMMERCIAL: Healthcare technology specialist The Wandsworth Group has been awarded a contract worth more than £1m to design, manufacture and install a nurse call system for North Bristol Trust’s new hospital.
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Poole warns of deficit
FINANCE: Poole Hospital Foundation Trust is warning it may fail to achieve its planned £200,000 surplus and could finish the year in deficit.
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Exclusive: prominent CCG chair fears DH will impose 200,000 population minimum
STRUCTURE: An emerging London clinical commissioning group and its patient forum are lobbying the health secretary to protect it from forced merger, after the CCG’s chair raised concerns.
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NewsMid Staffs A&E to close at night
The accident and emergency department at Stafford Hospital is to close overnight due to inadequate permanent medical cover.
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LeaderLegal challenges threaten service redesign
Royal Brompton and Harefield Foundation Trust’s successful judicial review of the national consultation into the reconfiguration of paediatric cardiac services will send a shiver down the backbones of those charged with reshaping the English NHS.
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Sherwood Forest considers removing PFI asset
STRUCTURE: The trust agreed to consider removing Mansfield Community Hospital from its private finance initiative if it could not transfer to the trust under Transforming Community Services.
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George Eliot £1.2m behind finance plan
FINANCE: George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust is forecasting a break-even position for the end of 2011-12, £1.2m worse than planned.
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NewsCircle to run Hinchingbrooke hospital
A private company has been given the final go-ahead to take over the running of a debt-ridden NHS hospital.
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SupplementsNew ways of working: an HSJ report on Leadership and Workforce
What are the new skills that will be required of managers, leaders and the frontline workforce post-reform?
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Comment'Healing our finances needs a long term, not short term, strategy'
The financial problems of the NHS are extremely serious – but more like anaemia than haemorrhage. It is the financial equivalent of a long term medical condition, says Nick Bosanquet.
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CommentMedia Watch: fighting over the financials
Sunday’s Observer once again turned its eye to McKinsey and Company, claiming its consultants had been drawn into a “conflict of interest row”.
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CommentReview of London trusts reveals fears for safety
By now everyone in London’s heard of the SaFE review. NHS London commissioned consultants McKinsey to put together the Safe and Financially Effective paper and it has sat on desks for a few weeks at Southside. It’s explosive.
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Comment'A new procurement model could fall foul of inertia'
Despite talk of opening up NHS procurement, the same old system looks unlikely to be phased out just yet, writes Noel Plumridge.
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SupplementsGet the skills - an HSJ training and development supplement
With clinicians taking more of a driving seat in commissioning, this special HSJ supplement looks at the skills required in this new role, and how they can be gained.
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NewsPrivate sector warns of training levy danger
Competition will be distorted if private providers are hit with an unreasonable levy to support NHS staff training costs, the network for independent and third sector providers has warned.
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NewsNHS lacks leadership consistency, peers told
Britain lacks “a consistency of leadership” in overseeing the NHS due to the changes of health secretary, a Conservative Peer has said.
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NewsNorth Cumbria clinicians were failed by management, new chief says
The man brought in to lead a Cumbrian trust through a takeover process has said it would have kept its independence if managers had tackled financial problems two years earlier.
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CommentMassive Midlands cluster faces a big foundation status challenge
The giant Midlands and East strategic health authority cluster held its first full board meeting as a monolith last week.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: PbR is becoming increasingly irrelevant
The strategic direction of tariff funding used to be steady expansion of scope and steady growth in sophistication. In time, it was understood, payment by results would cover virtually the entire English NHS.