All Health Service Journal articles in 21 September 2016 – Page 2
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HSJ Local
City leaders push for accountable care model covering 250,000 people
A Midlands hospital trust is seeking to establish an accountable care model in partnership with its local metropolitan borough council and clinical commissioning group.
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News
Junior doctors strike action called off
Junior doctor strike action which was planned for the next three months has been suspended, the British Medical Association announced this evening.
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Comment
'Eat less, move more' has failed – now it's time to talk
NICE now recognises that talking therapies can succeed where traditional anti-obesity strategies have failed
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News
Daily Insight: Teaching trust IT crash goes from bad to worse
The must read stories and analysis from Friday
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News
NHS England targets 'long tail' of specialised provision
Service reviews planned to cut “long tail” of providers doing small amounts of specialised work Prosthetics, spinal cord injury and paediatric burns services could be reconfigured in 2017-18 STPs must set out plans for collaborative commissioning with NHS England in cancer, mental health or learning disabilities NHS England ...
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News
NHS Digital grapples with 1.2 million patient data breaches
NHS Digital still unable to respect data preferences of patients from 51 GP surgeries NHS Digital must contact 1.2 million patients before 19 October to tell them their confidential data may have been shared against their wishes More than a third of organisations that received unauthorised NHS data ...
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Catch Up: Unprecedented planning guidance and CCG mergers
Your essential update on the week in health
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Baby STPs
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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Expert Briefing
Deep South: Tributes to a GP leader
Weekly updates and essential insight into the NHS in the South West, by Will Hazell
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News
Survey: HCAs being used as 'nurses on the cheap'
Almost 40 per cent of healthcare assistants say they have not received the training necessary to provide the care they are expected to deliver, according to a survey published today.
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News
CQC told to change culture after data loss 'never event'
Independent security review says July’s loss of 500 people’s data should be a “wake-up call” “Mismatch” between CQC policy and staff behaviour CQC considering second review next year to check on progress of organisational change An independent review has told the Care Quality Commission it needs a “culture ...
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HSJ Local
IT failure leaves teaching hospital with 10,000 tests backlog
Leeds and Bradford trusts cancelling non-urgent operations IT system may not be up and running until the end of next week Test results are being hand delivered but some are going to the wrong place with incorrect patient information One of the country’s largest teaching hospitals faces a ...
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HSJ Local
Coroner: Trust neglect contributed to patient's fatal self-harm
Neglect by South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust contributed to the death of a 15 year old mental health patient, a coroner has ruled.
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News
Planning guidance: The NHS's two-year to-do list
A round-up of HSJ’s in-depth coverage of the NHS planning guidance until 2019
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News
Extra mental health cash 'must not be used to bail out other services'
New funding for transforming mental health services must not be used to balance the books in other services or plug deficits and savings need to be reinvested back into the sector, NHS England has said.
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HSJ Local
GPs told to cancel blood tests after teaching trust's IT failure
CCGs tell all GPs in Leeds to cancel routine blood tests after hardware fault at Leeds Teaching Hospital GPs expect to have to recall some patients for testing as samples become unviable Fault is also affecting Bradford Teaching Hospitals and caused “critical” internal incident at Leeds All routine ...
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News
Keith McNeil to lead new board to drive digital delivery
Digital delivery board will be led by Keith McNeil and Will Smart New board will replace Department of Health led board responsible for Care.data A new digital delivery board bringing together NHS England, NHS Digital and the Department of Health has been established to drive the implementation ...
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News
'Block payment' plan for outpatients scaled back
Plans to reduce inappropriate outpatient follow-ups by introducing a block payment system from 2017-18 have been scaled back by NHS England.
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HSJ Knowledge
Memory test showed value of keeping it local
The results of a pilot memory assessment service showed the value of delivering dementia services within primary care
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Comment
People are at the heart of transformation
Integrated data from the population’s use of services and workforce can help systems monitor response to the needs of the people and enhance improvement