All Health Service Journal articles in 21 November 2014 – Page 4
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Comment
Colchester is yet to turn the corner but feelings are mixed
Pressures of austerity collide with transparency
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News
Exclusive: Hinchingbrooke A&E could face axe
The NHS’s only privately run hospital, Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust, could lose core services such as its accident and emergency department despite earlier assurances that franchising the hospital would protect it from such a move.
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News
Patient safety bill to legislate for zero NHS harm
The NHS could be required to achieve ‘zero avoidable harm’ if a government backed bill being driven through Parliament by the MP for Stafford makes it onto the statute books.
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News
Ombudsman strengthens procurement checks after NAO probe
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has handed its board the role of reviewing and approving deals over £100,000
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Comment
Video: What went wrong with Mrs Andrews' care
The story of a patient who never made it back home
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HSJ Local
NEW Devon sets out service cut plans
FINANCE: Surgical procedures for prostate cancer, hernias and cataracts are among a raft of treatments that could be restricted or stopped in one of the country’s most financially challenged health economies.
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News
Exclusive: Delayed transfer rate soars to highest level
The national rate of delayed transfers of care has soared to its highest ever level, threatening the better care fund’s ambition to cut costs by improving the transfer of patients from hospital to other care settings.
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HSJ Knowledge
Embed person centred care into mainstream health services
How to put patients at the heart of care
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Comment
The three ways to drive transformational change in the NHS
How a new programme will strengthen the NHS
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News
HSJ Live 18.11.2014: Foundation Trust Network to change its name
Network to be rebranded as NHS Providers, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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News
One in 10 GP practices pose greatest perceived risk
One in 10 GP practices have been assigned the highest category of risk in an ‘intelligent monitoring’ system devised by the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ Local
Elective backlog causes £7m funding gap for London trust
FINANCE: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust has identified a £7m funding gap caused by a large backlog of patients requiring elective treatment.
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News
Senior information centre official to depart
The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s director of information and analytics is leaving the organisation, HSJ has learned.
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News
CQC reveals first general practice ratings
The first two GP practices to be rated under the Care Quality Commission’s inspection regime have been assessed as ‘outstanding’.
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News
Staffordshire CCG to hand £280m contract to private sector
Two private firms have been shortlisted for a £280m ‘prime provider’ contract in East Staffordshire in a competition that has seen all NHS bidders squeezed out of the race.
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News
HSJ Live 17.11.2014: Morecambe Bay under fire on cancer screening services
A foundation trust has pledged to shake up the management of its breast screening unit after a probe found an “extremely poor” working environment that must be having “impact on patient care”, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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Comment
Healthcare will inevitably become more expensive
As the economy grows, so will the costs of running the NHS
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HSJ Knowledge
Schwartz rounds: spread 'small acts of kindness' among staff
Why the rounds are growing in popularity
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HSJ Local
Monitor investigates Yorkshire FT over finance problem
FINANCE: Monitor has launched an investigation into the deterioration of finances at Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust.