All Health Service Journal articles in 13 June 2014
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HSJ Local
Dorset County positions to provide community services
STRUCTURE: Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust plans to increase its provision of integrated out-of-hospital services during 2014-15, board papers reveal.
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NewsLamb backs legal requirement to pool budgets
Care minister Norman Lamb has today called for a new “legal obligation” to ensure health and social care commissioners pool their budgets as part of a significant expansion of his better care fund project.
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NewsBack to work scheme for GPs to be drawn up
BREAKING: Health Education England is planning a back to work scheme for GPs to help them return to the NHS.
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NewsBetter care fund gives integration a 'bad name', says Burnham
The government’s better care fund is in danger of giving “integration a bad name” and of tipping the NHS over a financial cliff next year, Andy Burnham has said
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CommentCentralisation is crucial to achieve better care locally
The politics must be taken out of the NHS
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News
GP funding changes 'destabilising'
GP surgeries are being put under severe financial pressure because of changes to the way some practices receive funding, leading doctors have said.
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NewsShake up of Greater Manchester services backed by city's CCGs
Greater Manchester’s CCGs have submitted proposals to NHS England for public consultation on a major shake up of general surgery and emergency care
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NewsNew scheme to help educate NHS on genetic medicine
Health Education England has revealed a multimillion pound project to prepare the NHS workforce for the advent of healthcare based on advances in genetic medicine.
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CommentThe challenge in writing an NHS comedy is keeping up with reality
The reforms have led to a rich seam of material
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HSJ LocalTameside in need of £14.3m cash support
FINANCE: Tameside Hospital Foundation Trust has applied to the Department of Health for financial aid after pinpointing a need for £14.3m.
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HSJ LocalMonitor takes action at Barnsley Hospital
PERFORMANCE: Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust has agreed to draft in outside help and draw up a turnaround plan as part of its response to regulatory intervention by Monitor.
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HSJ LocalCroydon Health Service deficit more than three times planned amount
FINANCE: Croydon Health Service Trust has seen its deficit swell to more than three times its planned amount as a result of an increased reliance of temporary staff.
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HSJ Local
Concern over funding for rare eye condition
FINANCE: A group of trusts that provide specialist eye treatment have written to NHS England to express concern over the future of funding for the treatment of a rare eye condition.
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HSJ KnowledgeBlogging: patient led therapy in a digital world
Patients are influencing and connecting with others in need online
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CommentHow to make the NHS constitution a reality on the front line
We all have a duty to implement its values
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NewsHSJ Live 09.06.2014: Commons health debate - The Queen's Speech
The third day of debate on the Queen’s Speech in the House of Commons, focusing on health, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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NewsDH expects to lose 85 per cent of overseas visitors and migrants costs
The Department of Health expects to recover up to around 15 per cent of the estimated £2bn of costs shouldered by the NHS for overseas visitors and migrants
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HSJ LocalApproval granted for groundbreaking PFI buyout
FINANCE: A North East trust has received approval from the Treasury and Monitor to buy out its private finance initiative contract with a local authority loan – the first time such a deal has occurred in the NHS.
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NewsMonitor: 'Clusters' to remain in mental health funding regime
The regulator has sent a strong signal that using ‘patient clusters’ as a means of funding for mental health service will be maintained
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HSJ LocalBasildon removed from special measures
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust has become the first trust to come out of special measures after what the health secretary described as a “remarkable turnaround”.