All Health Service Journal articles in 20 February 2015 – Page 3
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Exclusive: Most providers believe they cannot sign contracts before April, survey finds
A majority of provider sector finance chiefs believe that their organisations will not be able to sign contracts before the start of the coming financial year, according to a snap survey shared with HSJ.
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HSJ Local
A&E consultants resign en masse from trust
Five accident and emergency consultants have resigned from a troubled West Midlands acute trust across two hospitals, including all four consultants from one department.
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HSJ Local
GP 'super-practice' care model will 'break commissioning barriers'
STRUCTURE: A GP ‘super-practice’ is seeking to trial new models of care outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View to ‘break down commissioning barriers’ and ‘innovate at a faster pace’.
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HSJ Local
Dermatology procurement delayed after preferred bidder pulls out
STRUCTURE: The procurement of a new dermatology service in Brighton has been delayed because the preferred bidder has pulled out after it was unable to reach agreement with organisations it wanted to subcontract work from.
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News
Public health workers in pay 'limbo'
Some public health workers in local government are stuck in pay ‘limbo’ after being denied the increases awarded to both council and NHS colleagues following their transfer out of the health service.
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HSJ Local
Sheffield 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.
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HSJ 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 Local
Morecambe 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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News
Trusts combine to pioneer open source patient records project
Trusts to pioneer open source patient records system
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HSJ Local
Acute 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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HSJ 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 Knowledge
Nicholson: Innovation and imagination must be hardwired into the NHS
A global view is needed
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News
Exclusive 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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Exclusive: 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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QOF '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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Making 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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HSJ Local
Norfolk 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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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 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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