All Health Service Journal articles in 13 February 2015
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HSJ LocalCCG to extend community provider contract
COMMERCIAL: Bath and North East Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group is to extend the contract of its community services provider by a year, with it now ending in March 2017.
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NewsHSJ Live 05.02.2015: NHS managers urged to reject 'divisive' pay offer
NHS managers will be urged to reject the government’s latest pay offer in a ballot of union members
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NewsExclusive: NHS managers urged to reject 'divisive' pay offer
NHS managers will be urged to reject the government’s latest pay offer in a ballot of union members, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalCommunity trust abandons FT bid
STRUCTURE: Liverpool Community Health Trust has abandoned its bid for foundation trust status after concluding it no longer represented a sustainable future for the trust.
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HSJ LocalCambridge trust's chief operating officer to leave
Cambridge University Hospital Foundation Trust’s chief operating officer Fran Cousins is leaving the trust this summer to join Deloitte.
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HSJ LocalJudicial review launched over integrated care contract award
COMMERCIAL: A south London clinical commissioning group’s attempt to contract a new integrated GP out of hours and urgent care service has been left in limbo after a losing bidder initiated judicial review proceedings against the decision.
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NewsCoalition health reforms 'damaging and distracting', says think tank
The coalition government’s flagship legislation on health was ‘damaging and distracting’, and ‘historians will not be kind in their assessment’ of its record on NHS reform, an influential think tank has claimed.
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HSJ LocalLincoln Hospital begins £580k revamp
CAPITAL SCHEMES: Building work costing more than £580,000 has begun on Lincoln County Hospital’s outpatient department following investment from United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust.
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NewsSenior figures from three main parties back greater role for HWBs
Senior figures from the three main political parties have backed health and wellbeing boards as the main commissioners of integrated health and social care.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Memo reveals trust forced to 'scale back' specialist service
Emergency patients at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust who are in need of specialist dermatology treatment could be forced to wait more than a day to be seen, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ PartnersReview the CQC challenge policy to avoid Hinchingbrooke style fall outs
The Circle versus CQC spat shows serious organisations can be childish
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HSJ LocalNorovirus forces trust to cancel all non-urgent operations
PERFORMANCE: North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust has been forced to cancel all non-urgent operations at one of its hospitals following an outbreak of norovirus.
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News£1.2m fund for volunteers to help under pressure A&Es
Trusts will be given an extra £1.2m to fund 700 volunteers to help ease pressures on accident and emergency departments.
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News'Hard evidence' special measures worked at Keogh trusts, say researchers
There is ‘hard evidence’ that the special measures regime has reduced death rates at the 11 Keogh trusts and potentially saved hundreds of lives, researchers have claimed.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe system-wide approach to turn around a struggling health economy
Lessons learned by Guildford and Waverley CCG
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NewsHSJ Live 09.02.2015: Capita in NHS staff data breach
Outsourcing firm Capita responsible for breach of NHS employees’ personal data in Liverpool , plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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HSJ LocalCapita in NHS staff data breach
WORKFORCE: The outsourcing firm Capita has been responsible for a breach of NHS employees’ personal data in Liverpool, HSJ can reveal.
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News£35m nursing tech fund shared among 60 bidders
More than 60 bids by NHS and other care providers have received a share of the second tranche of nursing technology fund, an NHS England director has told HSJ.
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NewsNHS managers face jail for publishing misleading information
NHS managers who publish false or misleading information could face up to two years in prison under new laws set to be confirmed by ministers this week, HSJ has learned.