All Health Service Journal articles in 20 February 2015
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NewsFrancis calls for stronger legal protection for whistleblowers
Ministers should extend the legal protection for NHS staff who raise whistleblowing concerns through a system to also help those out of work find new jobs in the service, the Francis review has said.
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NewsFrancis unveils plan to fix 'serious problem' of NHS's whistleblower treatment
A new national independent officer’s role should be created with responsibility for overseeing the investigation and treatment of NHS whistleblowers, Sir Robert Francis has recommended.
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NewsExclusive interview: Francis insists whistleblowing measures have 'teeth'
New legal powers and regulations brought in over the last 18 months will provide ‘the stick’ to force the NHS to change the way it treats whistleblowers, Sir Robert Francis QC has told HSJ.
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NewsFrancis: CQC should probe whistleblower settlements
Settlements between NHS trusts and whistleblowers should be scrutinised by the Care Quality Commission to ensure organisations are well led, the Francis review has recommended.
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LeaderPoliticians are still playing the blame game over whistleblowing
Neither side seems to note the irony
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NewsMidlands paramedic sentenced after hospital death
A West Midlands paramedic has been handed an eight month suspended sentence after failing to examine and start resuscitation on a man who collapsed outside a hospital emergency department.
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HSJ Local
Emergency department pilots partnership with private pharmacists
STRUCTURE: North Manchester General Hospital has installed a private healthcare provider pharmacist at its A&E department to ease demand by treating patients with common ailments and minor injuries.
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HSJ Local
Sheffield CCG to review urgent care services
STRUCTURE: Sheffield CCG is to review the way urgent care services are run and structured across the city amid concerns that the current system is struggling with high levels of demand.
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HSJ LocalNorfolk and Suffolk FT withdraws from mutuals project
STRUCTURE: Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has today announced its withdrawal from the government’s Mutuals in Health pathfinder project.
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NewsMaking NICE guidelines mandatory ‘counterproductive’, says former chair
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s former chair Sir Michael Rawlins has criticised NHS commissioners for ‘poorly implementing’ the body’s guidelines but said making them mandatory would be ‘counterproductive’.
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NewsQOF 'bad for health', says NHS England GP leader
NHS England’s most senior GP leaders have criticised the national GP pay for performance framework as ‘bad for health’. Clinicians should instead be incentivised to work more closely with other parts of the health system, they said.
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NewsExclusive: Labour campaigning on NHS pays off with poll boost
The public increasingly trust Labour to manage the NHS, and support the policies unveiled last month in the party’s 10 year vision for the service, the latest of HSJ/FTI Consulting pre-election poll has found.
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NewsExclusive poll: NHS may be deciding election issue
The NHS looks likely to be a defining issue in this year’s general election, with undecided voters in marginal seats ranking it as important to their choice, according to HSJ’s latest pre-election poll.
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HSJ KnowledgeNicholson: Innovation and imagination must be hardwired into the NHS
A global view is needed
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NewsHSJ Live 16.02.2015: Exclusive poll - NHS set to become defining election issue
Voters rank NHS as a top priority determining who they will support in May, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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HSJ LocalAcute trusts seek to establish 'blueprint' for regional locum agencies
COMMERCIAL: Nine South West trusts have embarked on an initiative to bring down the cost of hiring locum doctors, which it hopes will be a “blueprint” for the health service across the country.
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NewsTrusts combine to pioneer open source patient records project
Trusts to pioneer open source patient records system
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HSJ LocalMorecambe Bay hospital services reconfiguration plans revealed
STRUCTURE: Plans have been unveiled to reconfigure services at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust by phasing out most of the inpatient surgery at one of its hospitals.
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NewsHSJ Live 17.02.2015: Sheffield makes £260m bid for 'vanguard' status
Sheffield CCG and council hope to become ‘vanguard site’ for the new models of care outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View plus the rest of today’s news
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HSJ LocalSheffield organisations pitch £260m 'vanguard' care plan
STRUCTURE: Health and care organisations have agreed to pool £260m to redesign and commission services together in their application to become a “vanguard site” for the new models of care outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View.