All Health Service Journal articles in 14 March 2014 – Page 4
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News
HSJ Live 10.03.14: Minister backs 'assisted dying' bid
Care services minister Norman Lamb said he would vote in favour of allowing terminally ill adults with less than six months to live to choose to be helped to kill themselves, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells specialist cancer surgery suspended
PERFORMANCE: Patients from the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells area are being sent to St Thomas’ Hospital in London for upper gastro intestinal cancer surgery procedures amid concerns about services in the area, it has emerged.
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CQC whistleblower claims 'constructive dismissal'
A claim of constructive dismissal brought by a former Care Quality Commission inspector who blew the whistle to the Francis inquiry will be heard next week.
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DH: New care.data safeguards will not affect research or commissioning
The government has published the legal measures it hopes will allay fears over the controversial care.data programme, and insisted they will not prevent information being available for commissioning, research and public health.
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HSJ Live 07.03.2014: Monitor launches investigation into Manchester trust
The Christie Foundation Trust will be investigated by the regulator, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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HSJ Local
Community trust out of running for £800m integrated care contract
STRUCTURE: Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust’s bid for a £800m older people’s services contract for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough has been rejected, while implementation of the project has been delayed by six months.
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First three trusts rated in new-style CQC regime
The Care Quality Commission has published its ratings of three hospital trusts, the first to receive judgements under its new inspection regime.
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Duty of candour set to be extended to 100,000 incidents
NHS providers will be required to tell patients about all but the very least serious patient safety incidents under the new statutory duty of candour, if the recommendations of a government commissioned review are adopted into law.
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HSJ Local
Monitor closes Wirral probe
FINANCE: Monitor has closed its investigation into Wirral University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust, the regulator has announced.
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HSJ Live 06.03.2014: Increase in procurement and competition challenges
HSJ analysis identifies six of the first legal challenges to emerge from providers, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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Hunt says NHS on track for patients' access to their GP records
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said 95 per cent of NHS patients will be able to access their GP care records online, free of charge, by the time of the next general election.
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Comment
Commissioners must take the long view in neurological care
The funding of services requires vision
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HSJ Local
Royal Liverpool bid for foundation status reactivated
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust’s application for foundation status has been reactivated.
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HSJ Live 03.03.2014: More than 320,000 pledges made for NHS Change Day
Pledges have nearly doubled since last year, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.