All Health Service Journal articles in 15 March 2012
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SupplementsAccelerating learning: an HSJ training and development supplement
Continuing professional development, e-learning and developing junior managers are the key themes in this HSJ special supplement on training and development.
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NewsTwo thousand campaigners rally against Health Bill
Over 2,000 NHS staff and campaigners heard union leaders, clinicians and managers denounce the Health Bill at a rally against the government’s planned reforms in Westminster last night.
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NewsConsultants pass vote of no confidence in Andrew Lansley
Consultants yesterday defied British Medical Association chair Hamish Meldrum to pass a motion of no confidence in the health secretary.
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NewsNorth Cumbria takeover bidder estimated it would need £78m over two years
FINANCE: The preferred bidder to take over North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust has estimated it needs the government to pump £78m of financial support into the troubled trust over the next two years.
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News'Move on', Nick Clegg to urge Lib Dems
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg will today appeal for frustrated Liberal Democrat activists to “move on” from damaging rows over the NHS and tuition fees.
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NewsBetter interventions could cut missed appointments by third
The number of patients who fail to turn up for NHS appointments could be cut by 30 per cent with just basic service alterations, according to research.
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HSJ Local
Tameside and Glossop tenders for 40 intermediate care beds
COMMERCIAL: The primary care trust is inviting bids for a contract worth as much as £10m to provide up to 40 community-based intermediate care beds in the locality.
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HSJ Local
Council backs loan of up to £100m for Northumbria Healthcare
FINANCE: Northumberland county council has agreed in principle to lend the foundation trust up to £100m in order to buy out its private finance initiative contracts.
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HSJ Local
Bridge built between Aintree and the Walton Centre
STRUCTURE: Aintree University Hospitals and the Walton Centre have announced plans for a £2m bridge between the two foundation trusts, to allow rapid transfer of patients with serious head injuries.
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HSJ Local
PAHT opens new specialist trauma and orthopaedic centre
STRUCTURE: The trust has opened a new specialist centre for emergency trauma and orthopaedic services at North Manchester General Hospital.
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HSJ Local
Detailed bids submitted for Royal Liverpool PFI rebuild
COMMERCIAL: Two bidders - Carillion and Horizon - have submitted detailed proposals for the private finance initiative rebuild of Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: the reconfiguration plan for Greater Manchester's hospitals
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of the key issues facing the NHS’s major health economies. This week: acute reconfiguration in Greater Manchester.
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NewsLib Dem vote against support for bill puts more pressure on peers
Liberal Democrat peers are under pressure to make more changes to the Health Bill after a manoeuvre by the party’s leadership in support of the bill backfired at its spring conference on Sunday.
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NewsSNP claim independence will safeguard NHS
Scotland’s National Health Service can only be “fully guaranteed” by independence, deputy first minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.
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HSJ Local
Southampton cardiologist becomes DH heart tsar
WORKFORCE: A cardiologist at Southampton General Hospital has been appointed heart tsar by the Department of Health.
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HSJ Local
Recruitment search starts as trust seeks to install temporary chair
WORKFORCE: Royal Berkshire Hospital Foundation Trust is to begin the process of appointing a new chair after the sudden departure of Colin Maclean.
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HSJ Local
Trust considered forcing staff to have flu jabs
A leading foundation trust considered whether the flu jab could be made compulsory for staff.
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HSJ Local
Amber-red rating for St Helens and Knowsley FT bid
PERFORMANCE: NHS North of England’s latest provider development report rates the trust’s foundation trust bid as amber-red.
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HSJ Local
NHS Trafford puts community services up for tender
COMMERCIAL: The primary care trust has launched a tender process for organisations seeking to take over its community services.
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HSJ Local
Council cash blamed for delayed transfers of care at Coventry and Warwickshire
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire is reporting a rise in delayed transfers of care, with part of the problem blamed on council funding