All Health Service Journal articles in 13 December 2013 – Page 3
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HSJ LocalMidwifery regulation 'risks failure to learn from mistakes'
Flawed local regulation of midwifery services can place the lives of mothers and babies at risk, according to a report published today by the health service ombudsman.
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HSJ Local
Mutual assurance 'joins up commissioning process'
PERFORMANCE: The chair of Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group, the first to introduce a “mutual assurance process” with NHS England, has said the process has helped to join up commissioning.
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HSJ Local
GP surgery faced closure in property wrangle
Landlords came close to closing a GP surgery amid a lease renewal blunder involving NHS Property Services and NHS England, HSJ has learned.
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NewsListen: Next NHS England chief on future healthcare
Listen to the incoming NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens, who will replace Sir David Nicholson in April, talk about innovation and the future of healthcare in a speech in Qatar yesterday.
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NewsHSJ Live: 11.12.13 The 100 most powerful people in health
The HSJ100 was announced today and the rest of today’s news
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SupplementsHSJ100 2013 (mobile friendly)
See who is on our annual list of the most influential people in healthcare
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SupplementsHSJ100 2013: interactive list
Click here to see the 2013 HSJ100 interactive list (opens in a new window)
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HSJ KnowledgeClare Gerada: Quotas will not break the glass ceiling
General practice offers an effective clear equal opportunities model
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CommentWhere does dementia policy go next?
The G8 summit on dementia is a big win, but national progress is stalling
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NewsFlory: Commissioning uncertainty hitting trusts' finances
Unpredictable financial flows caused by unsettled commissioning structures are causing problems for trusts, according to Trust Development Authority chief executive David Flory.
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NewsMonitor to increase supervision of FT A&E performance
Monitor is increasing its scrutiny of foundation hospitals’ accident and emergency performance this winter, after being requested to do so by the health secretary.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Serco chief admits mistakes
Outsourcing giant Serco underestimated how long it would take to restructure community health services in Suffolk, its health managing director has told HSJ.
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NewsCancer care 'postcode lottery'
Cancer patients are facing a postcode lottery of care within the NHS, with patients in some areas four times less likely to get an early diagnosis, it has been reported.
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NewsNew guidance on IV drip prescribing
Up to one in five patients could be suffering unnecessarily in hospitals across the UK because medics are making basic blunders in prescribing drips, experts have warned.
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HSJ Local
'Brave' South Gloucestershire CCG plans referred to health secretary
STRUCTURE: Councillors in South Gloucestershire have voted to refer plans to axe outpatient and diagnostic services at a local site to the health secretary.
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NewsDH paid £1.5m to financial advisers on blood company sell-off
The Department of Health paid £1.5m to the financial advisers who acted for the government in the sale of the majority stake in Plasma Resources UK, the blood products company.
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CommentMichael White: A year of 'everything for the best'
You needn’t be Dr Pangloss to hope for a better year in 2014
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NewsHSJ Live: 10.12.2013 Specialised commissioning £196.7m behind plan
NHS reports a deficit of £136.8m in specialised commissioning, and the rest of the day’s news and comment