All Health Service Journal articles in 20 December 2013
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HSJ KnowledgeVictor Adebowale: Leadership is about self-awareness not pushiness
Why leadership is a different game to management
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NewsGPs replaced following CQC inspections
More details emerged of how the lead GPs of poorly performing practices have been replaced following Care Quality Commission inspections.
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NewsCQC launches dementia services review
The Care Quality Commission is to undertake unannounced inspections of 150 care homes and hospitals to review the care of people with dementia in England.
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Liver surgeon suspended by GMC
Health chiefs have suspended a specialist liver surgeon linked to the “avoidable deaths” of eight patients he operated on in south Wales.
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NewsLabour: bring back GP appointment target
The target for GPs to guarantee patients an appointment within 48 hours should be restored to help ease the pressure on accident and emergency departments, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said.
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HSJ Local
Monitor probes Lancashire Teaching Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has launched an investigation into failure to hit waiting time to treatment targets at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Keogh review trust's chief resigns
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of East Lancashire Hospitals Trust has announced he is resigning with immediate effect.
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CommentGetting the money right matters most to patients
NHS England can deliver better specialised care
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NewsFamily demands inquiry over liver surgery deaths
Health chiefs are being urged to publish the results of an inquiry which caused a top flight liver surgeon to be banned from carrying out operations.
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HSJ LocalMonitor to investigate University Hospital of South Manchester
FINANCE: Monitor has launched an investigation into University Hospital of South Manchester Foundation Trust’s finances.
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NewsFall in patient satisfaction with GPs, survey shows
Fewer patients are finding it easy to book GP appointments, while trust in doctors and out-of-hours services has also fallen slightly, figures show.
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CommentThe duty of candour is a giant leap in patients' rights
Jeremy Hunt has an important decision to make
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NewsDrug firm fined for care homes 'cartel'
A pharmaceuticals company is to be fined more than £380,000 over a cartel arrangement in which it carved up some of a multimillion-pound market in prescription drugs for care homes with a rival.
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NewsSurgical never events 'completely unacceptable'
NHS England’s patient safety director has said there is no excuse for surgical never events after it was revealed 85 trusts reported incidents such as wrong site surgery in the first half of 2013-14.
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HSJ Local
Controversial Serco GP contract cut short
The commissioners of a controversial Serco-run GP out of hours service said today they had reached “mutual agreement” with the outsourcing giant to end its contract 17 months early.
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NewsA&E target missed for first time this winter
The health service has failed to meet the accident and emergency waiting target for seeing 95 per cent of patients within four hours for the first week this winter.
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HSJ Local
CCGs propose single-site obstetrics and paediatrics in East Sussex
Maternity and paediatric services in East Sussex will be permanently provided on one site rather than two under proposals put forward by clinical commissioning groups in the area.
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NewsMidlands CSU to unite with neighbour
Two commissioning support units have announced they are planning to merge, in a bid to ensure they are accepted onto NHS England’s procurement framework for support services.
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NewsHSJ Live 16.12.13 Keogh launches seven day working plan
Hospitals face sanctions for poor weekend care, and the rest of the day’s news and comment
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NewsKeogh launches weekend working plan
Hospitals will face sanctions unless they deliver the same standard of care seven days a week in a shake-up aimed at cutting the increased death risk at weekends.