All Health Service Journal articles in 15 March 2012 – Page 7
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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
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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News
SNP 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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News
Lib 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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HSJ Local
Analysed: 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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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 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
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
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
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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News
Better 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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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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News
North 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
Consultants 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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News
Two 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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