All Health Service Journal articles in 19 January 2012 – Page 4
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News
Exclusive: Health Bill concessions on 'autonomy' and SoS accountability
The government is offering a series of Health Bill concessions in an attempt to diffuse the row over the health secretary’s responsibility for the NHS.
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HSJ Local
New strategy director for Imperial
WORKFORCE: Imperial have apppointed Brendan Farmer from Capgemini as director of strategy.
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HSJ Local
Western Sussex Hospitals MRSA free for 12 months
PERFORMANCE: There were no cases of hospital-acquired MRSA at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust during 2011.
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HSJ Local
Sussex Partnership is top trust in Stonewall equality index
WORKFORCE: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has become the first ever NHS organisation to make it into the top 10 in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index.
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HSJ Local
Western Sussex at centre of food spending row
FINANCE: Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust was last week forced to admit that an error has occurred somewhere in its data submission on hospital food to the NHS Information Centre.
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News
Gay friendly NHS organisations named
Seven NHS organisations have been named in a list of the top 100 lesbian, gay, and bisexual friendly employers in Britain.
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News
Exclusive: national company to take over PCT estate
A new national property company is to be set up by the government to manage the primary care trust estate, HSJ understands.
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HSJ Local
Medway trialling Dr Foster hospital performance tool
PERFORMANCE: Medway Foundation Trust has been trialling a new online “quick-look” performance management tool launched by healthcare information provider Dr Foster Intelligence.
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Labour: NHS patients will face 'worse deal'
NHS patients will get a “much worse deal” if the government’s health service reforms see NHS hospitals free to earn up to half of their income from private work, Labour has warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to deliver a successful and sustainable hospital transformation
How do you deliver long term transformational change at your hospital when the immediate concern is short term cost improvement? McKinsey senior expert Neil Griffiths has some ideas.
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News
No 'structural merger' of health and social care, MPs told
There will be no government drive to merge health and social care organisations across the country, health minister Paul Burstow has told MPs.
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News
Biggest health and social care provider given the 'green light'
Plans for the biggest joint provider of health and social care in England have been approved by NHS Midlands and East, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ Local
Cambridgeshire wants to delay Monitor application
STRUCTURE: Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust wants to move back its groundbreaking application for foundation trust status - but is meeting opposition from the Department of Health.
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HSJ Local
Bedford faces £2.2m deficit unless action taken
FINANCE: Bedford Hospital Trust could end the year with a £2.2m deficit if it does not cut back, the board heard.
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HSJ Local
Mental health trusts merge
STRUCTURE: Two mental health trusts in East Anglia merged at the beginning of the month to form Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Patients needing home oxygen services may have to take deliveries at night during Olympics
PERFORMANCE: A risk planning document for the south west London cluster of PCTs said deliveries of services like oxygen to patients homes could have to be made at night, to avoid disruption to the Olympics.
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HSJ Local
SHAs asked to endorse £278m Alder Hey rebuild
FINANCE: Strategic health authorities will this week be asked to endorse the business case for a £278m rebuilding of the foundation’s hospital and grounds.
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HSJ Local
George Eliot 'concern' at high mortality rate
PERFORMANCE: An external review into mortality rates has been launched at George Eliot Hopsital, which has identified its persistently high death rate as “a concern”.
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HSJ Local
George Eliot in deficit amid 'capacity pressures'
FINANCE: George Eliot Hospital Trust reported a deficit of £88,000 in October, bringing the year-to-date position to £146,000.
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HSJ Local
NHS Wandsworth's surplus at risk from acute overspend
FINANCE: A finance report to the south west London PCT cluster showed Wandsworth’s reserves had gone from £18m at the start of the year to £3m by the end of month eight.