All Health Service Journal articles in 21 June 2012 – Page 3
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LeaderLeaders can help detoxify the BMA strike
The strike’s real threat is to relationships in the NHS.
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NewsFarrar: 'We are all culpable for failing to take big decisions'
NHS managers have avoided taking tough decisions and instead pursued short-term goals, according to the NHS Confederation’s chief executive.
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GP-led commissioners to inherit PCT's £19m deficit
FINANCE: England’s largest primary care trust will pass on a multi-million pound deficit to the GP-led commissioning groups which will take over in the area next year, it has announced.
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NewsExclusive: struggling GP practices may be classed 'cause for concern'
GP practices will be classed under three categories based on performance under the NHS Commissioning Board’s plans for contracting primary care.
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News'Surveillance groups' to monitor provider quality
The standard of care being delivered by providers is to be scrutinised at regular “surveillance groups” under plans to ensure quality in the reformed NHS, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Hospitals aim to save £2.35bn on costs in 2012-13
Hospital trusts intend to take £2.35bn out of their cost base this financial year, an HSJ investigation reveals.
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NewsRevealed: highest-paid interim NHS chiefs on over £1k per day
The going rates for the health service’s most highly paid interim executives have been revealed as a result of a Treasury review of how public sector executives are employed.
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NewsExclusive: commissioning board will develop CSSs beyond assurance period
The NHS Commissioning Board will continue to support and develop commissioning support services after “checkpoint three”, the end of the formal assurance process.
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NewsInformation Centre in talks over CCG data service
The NHS Information Centre could be chosen to provide “at scale” business intelligence services for clinical commissioning groups, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsHospital trust asks DH to back franchise proposals
George Eliot Hospital Trust has applied for Department of Health permission to franchise its management.
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NewsStaff consulted on terms and conditions changes
NHS staff are to be surveyed on controversial plans to reduce the pay bill by modifying their employment terms and conditions.
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NewsClinical negligence claims top £35m despite fewer cases
Clinical negligence claims involving C difficile have remained steady despite a significant decline in cases of the infection over the past decade, a study has revealed.
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NewsMilburn: 'tragedy' reform policies making enemy of private sector
The government’s reforms “have made the private sector less acceptable in the NHS”, former labour health secretary Alan Milburn has told HSJ.
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NewsLansley: politicians should not lead service change
Politicians should not direct service change in the NHS, the health secretary has said, dodging the question of the extent of reconfiguration required to make the NHS affordable.
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Herts trust targets temporary staff savings
FINANCE: East and North Hertfordshire Trust hopes to save £700,000 this year by outsourcing bank, agency and locum staff to NHS Professionals.
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Tough start to financial year for Basildon
FINANCE: Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust started the new financial year with an in-month loss in April.
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North Essex chair to stand down
WORKFORCE: North Essex Partnership Foundation Trust is looking for a new chair to replace Mary St Aubyn, who is standing down in November after nearly 10 years.
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CQC eyes record keeping at Mid Essex
PERFORMANCE: An Essex Hospital has been told it must do more to improve standards of care after the CQC raised concerns about record keeping.
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Teversham practice gets stay of execution
STRUCTURE: NHS Norfolk is planning to keep a surgery on the outskirts of Norwich open, despite problems with staffing.
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Obs and gynae changes at Norfolk and Norwich
PERFORMANCE: Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust is making changes to its obstetrics and gynaecology department, after a review sparked by a rise in the number of stillbirths.