All Health Service Journal articles in 18 October 2012 – Page 3
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Comment
Michael White: the Savile fallout begins now
My tabloid friends insist Jimmy proved too cunning, too litigious, too famous to nail
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News
Peter Edwards on the latest Chief Executive Barometer: Not quite the brave new world
Peter Edwards assesses the latest Chief Executive Barometer
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Comment
Readers' letters - 18 October 2012
Private patient units will be an important contributor to NHS trusts’ balance sheets
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News
Acute FTs push their workforce reductions back to 2013-14
Acute foundation trusts are planning to increase staff numbers by more than 2,500 this financial year, latest figures released to HSJ show.
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HSJ Local
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals misses A&E target
PERFORMANCE: Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals has now missed the A&E four-hour wait target for each month of the financial year.
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News
Stephen Dalton named as head of Mental Health Network
Stephen Dalton, chief executive of Cumbria Partnership Foundation trust, has been appointed as chief executive of the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network.
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HSJ Local
New vascular surgery service for Derbyshire
STRUCTURE: Two East Midlands foundation trusts have joined forces to provide an integrated vascular surgery service to the whole of Derbyshire.
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HSJ Local
Two never events at Hampshire Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust recorded two “never events” in June, including one caused by clinicians getting an x-ray back to front.
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HSJ Local
Norovirus outbreak at Mid Staffordshire
PERFORMANCE: Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has closed one ward and its acute stroke unit to admissions, transfers and discharges to nursing homes after an outbreak of norovirus.
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HSJ Local
New AQP providers get go-ahead for CBT in Kent
COMMERCIAL: New organisations have been given the go-ahead to provide talking therapy, including cognitive behavioural therapy, across Kent and Medway.
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HSJ Local
New beds for Lincolnshire trauma patients
FINANCE: An East Midlands trust has spent more than £15,000 to purchase 15 new high-tech beds for trauma patients.
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Comment
Sally Gainsbury: tariff twister
Everyone knows which NHS hospitals are the most powerful, right?
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News
Avoidable harm in NHS drops for six months
There have been six months of continuous reductions in the proportion of patients avoidably harmed under NHS care, latest data shows.
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News
Hospital activity 'will rise'
Four out of five hospital chief executives believe their trust will do more work this financial year than it did in 2011-12. The finding casts doubt on commissioners’ hopes of controlling demand.
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News
Doctor recruitment drive off to slow start
A recruitment drive to increase the number of doctors in Wales has seen just five vacancies filled in six months, a government document shows.
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News
New healthcare rules 'nonsensical'
Labour has hit out at the “nonsensical” rules that will determine who can sit on the governing boards of the new organisations responsible for commissioning healthcare.
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HSJ Local
Hillingdon Hospitals earns same revenue year-on-year with '120 fewer staff'
WORKFORCE: A report to the board of Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust said its revenue was £1m ahead of plan in August, with costs £838,000 higher than plan, with £500,000 “directly linked with the higher NHS clinical income achieved”.
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HSJ Local
Swale CCG seeks lay members
WORKFORCE: Two independent lay members are being sought to join the governing body of Swale Clinical Commissioning Group.
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HSJ Local
Virgin community services begin in Sussex
COMMERCIAL: A new community musculoskeletal service has been launched across Hastings and Rother following a tender exercise won by Virgin Care.