All Health Service Journal articles in 13 December 2012 – Page 5
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Comment
Michael White: some notes on some scandals
Care scandals must not always leave the buck with hard-pressed staff
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News
Analysed: The case for changing primary care in Greater Manchester
Clinicians and commissioners are considering a controversial model for reform of Greater Manchester’s primary care
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News
Whistleblower helpline for doctors
Doctors reluctant to blow the whistle at work have been offered a new helpline amid fears that clinicians who speak out risk losing their jobs.
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News
I wasn't sacked, says ex-Circle boss
The former chief executive of the first private company to take over the running of an NHS hospital has denied that he was sacked.
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News
HSJ Live: rolling news 11.12.12
How Nottingham uses technology to enhance night-time care and the rest of today’s news
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News
Three quarters of first wave CCGs given authorisation 'conditions'
More than three-quarters of the clinical commissioning groups which passed the national test to take on budgets have had “conditions” imposed on their authorisation.
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HSJ Knowledge
Wireless brings night-time care out of the dark ages
How Nottingham uses technology to enhance night-time care
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News
Lamb: Learning disability hospitals should be 'throttled'
Alternative facilities should be commissioned for the majority of people with learning disabilities or autism who live in larger inpatient hospitals, the care services minister has said.
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News
Regulator's hit squad brands Mid Staffs 'unviable' in current form
The hit squad sent into Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust by regulator Monitor has concluded the troubled trust is unable to achieve long-term financial or clinical sustainability “in its current form”.
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News
Monitor sends hit squad into Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals
Health sector regulator Monitor is to send a hit squad into Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals Foundation Trust to develop a “long-term solution for the financial viability” of the foundation trust.
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News
GP nominated as new NICE chair
One of the country’s most prominent GPs has been named as the government’s preferred candidate to chair the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
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HSJ Local
Peterborough needs ‘external financing’ from January
Debt-laden Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals Foundation Trust expects to require ‘external financing’ from next month to help with its huge deficit, according to board papers.
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News
MPs call for Royal Commission on drugs
More needs to be done to comprehensively address the drugs problem in the UK, according to a report by the Parliamentary home affairs committee.
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News
GP contract: DH proposes new funding formula
GP practice income should be more closely linked to deprivation from 2014, the Department of Health has proposed.
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News
HSJ Live: rolling news 10.12.12
Monitor says Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust is likely to be unviable and the rest of HSJ’s free rolling news coverage
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HSJ Knowledge
The future of delegating NHS Continuing Healthcare
How the delegation of continuing care may change from next year
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HSJ Knowledge
Community care is a means to a better end
Community services can improve the quality of end of life care
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News
Duty of candour will cost NHS £130m in 10 years
The introduction of a contractual duty of candour will cost the health service more than £130m over 10 years, according the Department of Health.
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HSJ Local
'Brave' Bristol presses ahead with mental health tender
COMMERCIAL: NHS Bristol’s plans to put mental health services worth about £40m out to tender and award contracts within a year are “brave”, potential providers have warned.
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News
Local government funding almost halved since 2010, says IFS
Local government faces cumulative cuts of more than 40 per cent following the chancellor’s announcements that he will extend austerity for a further year into 2017-18, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.