All Health Service Journal articles in 19 January 2012
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NewsAmazon-style site launched in response to NHS's purchasing woes
A new Amazon.com-style price comparison website for NHS supplies will be launched today in a bid to capitalise on the service’s need to drive down its spending on procurement.
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News£200m boost for NHS compensation fund
Nearly £200 million has been pumped into a pot for NHS compensation payouts, the Department of Health said.
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NHS bosses challenge £375,000 fine
FINANCE: NHS health chiefs are challenging a proposed £375,000 fine after computer hard drives containing confidential information about tens of thousands of patients and staff were stolen.
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ICO: Former Royal Liverpool employee unlawfully accessed medical records
WORKFORCE: A former health care assistant at the trust has pleaded guilty to unlawfully obtaining patient information, according to a statement from the Information Commissioner’s office.
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Royal Liverpool submits planning application for BioInnovation centre
COMMERCIAL: The trust has submitted a planning application for a 70,000 sq ft Liverpool BioInnovation Centre, to provide commercial scale laboratory space to develop new treatments and medical technologies for the market.
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NewsEU laws 'putting patients at risk'
NHS patients are “at risk” because of European laws, the heads of two royal colleges have said.
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NewsNew Medicine Service guidance released
New guidance has been published showing how the New Medicine Service and post discharge Medicines Use Reviews can be used to provide a seamless care pathway for patients who transfer from hospital to the community setting.
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NewsBurnham urges medical colleges to demand bill is dropped
Representatives from the main royal medical colleges have met shadow health secretary Andy Burnham to discuss the possibility of a issuing a joint call for the Health Bill to be dropped.
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NewsRevealed: Bennett's plan to split Monitor board
Monitor is likely to face “numerous” allegations of improper conduct unless it can clearly separate its future healthcare regulatory role from its responsibility for foundation trusts, its chairman has warned.
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Epsom and St Helier secures £5m bailout from cluster to end the year £14m in deficit
FINANCE: The London/Surrey borders trust’s latest finance report said it was planning to hit its revised £14.3 deficit target after “revenue support of £5m has been agreed with sector” and NHS London.
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Consultancy appointed to SW London's merger bids competition panel application
STRUCTURE: Deloitte has been appointed to work on Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Trust’s bid to de-merge its hospitals and re-merge with neighbours.
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Berkshire Healthcare saves £610,000 through vacancy freezes
WORKFORCE: Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust hit its cost improvement plan target in the year to September 2011, but had to save £610,000 through vacancy freezes.
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Ox-Bucks cluster 'concerned' over QIPP
FINANCE: Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire primary care trust cluster has expressed “concern” over its ability to meet its quality, improvement, productivity and prevention plan for 2011-12.
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Trusts merge to form Oxford University Hospitals
STRUCTURE: Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust has merged with Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre to form Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Heath Trust name-change receives tentative backing
STRUCTURE: The north London mental health trust plans to change its name to North London Foundation Trust if it is authorised by Monitor.
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NHS Manchester to overshoot savings target by £1.5m
FINANCE: The primary care trust is forecasting it will save around £1.5m more than its £24.7m savings target for 2011-12, according to the Greater Manchester PCT cluster’s latest finance report.
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West Yorks NHS looks at data centre rationalisation
COMMERCIAL: PCTs in West Yorkshire, with the strategic health authority, have engaged consultants to help look at rationalising their data centre services.
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Peterborough and Stamford in significant breach for ‘foreseeable future’ – Monitor
FINANCE: A November meeting of Monitor’s compliance board concluded that the regulator expected Peterborough and Stamford FT to remain in significant breach of its terms of authorisation for “the foreseeable future”.
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Departed chair at troubled London trust had raised concerns about diverting pregnant women
PERFORMANCE: Chair of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Edwin Doyle resigned within a week of raising concerns about the Care Quality Commission’s imposition of a cap on the number of births at the trust.
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Northumbria Healthcare FT buys PAS
COMMERCIAL: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a seven-year contract to Stalis Ltd to supply a new patient administration system.