All Health Service Journal articles in 23 August 2012
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HSJ Local
Board to be told a ‘patient story’
PERFORMANCE: An initiative has been launched to improve the board of East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust’s knowledge in patient experience.
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HSJ Local
East Sussex Healthcare seeks to ‘clarify’ future of services
STRUCTURE: East Sussex Healthcare Trust has issued a statement in order to “clarify” its plans for the future configuration of its stroke, orthopaedics and general surgery departments.
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HSJ Local
New critical care monitoring technology for East Sussex
PERFORMANCE: East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has purchased a new system electronic system to improve care for intensive care patients.
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NewsMonitor installs new chairman at Bolton as major failings uncovered
Foundation trust regulator Monitor this afternoon moved to install a new chairman of Bolton FT after a major hole was uncovered in the finances of the troubled hospital trust.
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NewsClinical assessment service joins litigation authority
The body that deals with concerns over the professional practice of doctors, pharmacists and dentists is to become an operating division of the NHS Litigation Authority.
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NewsCalls for extra public health funding
The Department of Health will face widespread calls to increase the total budget for public health from the £2.2bn pledged by health secretary Andrew Lansley earlier this year.
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HSJ LocalNursing posts under threat at Hinchingbrooke
Nearly 50 nursing posts could be axed at a trust taken over by the private sector earlier this year, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsRegulator grants conditional approval for ground-breaking PFI buyout
An NHS foundation trust has been given conditional approval for a “novel and contentious” plan to buy out its private finance initiative contracts with a £120m loan from a local authority.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Cost revealed of PR battle over children's heart surgery
The public relations battle between the NHS and trusts that stood to lose services under the national reconfiguration of paediatric heart surgery cost nearly three-quarters of a million pounds, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsDH unveils licensing and competition plans
Healthcare sector regulator Monitor will have the power to direct commissioners to “withdraw or vary” tenders that breach competition rules, under regulations proposed by the Department of Health.
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NewsOFT investigates NHS hospitals sharing price data
The Office of Fair Trading has obtained assurances from eight NHS trusts that they will cease sharing commercially sensitive information about their private patient unit prices, it revealed this morning.
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NewsOnly 50 admissions for 'Olympic family' during games
London’s NHS saw only a minimal impact from the Olympic games, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsLansley hails cancer care improvements
Treatment for cancer sufferers has undergone a “fantastic” improvement, the health secretary has said
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NewsPublic urged to avoid 999 nuisance calls in Wales
A woman called for an ambulance after being bitten on the finger by a hamster, health officials have revealed.
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NewsPensioner cancer cases 'to treble by 2040'
The number of pensioners with cancer will treble by 2040, researchers suggest.
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NewsNo fault compensation plan examined in Scotland
Patients in Scotland could be able to get compensation payouts on a no-fault basis if they are injured as a result of medical treatment.
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NewsPlans to ramp up NHS overseas branches
NHS hospitals are to be invited by the government to set up profit-making branches abroad to raise funds for patients at home and raise the international profile of the health service.
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NewsMuslim man in right-to-die challenge
The family of a Muslim man from Greater Manchester who is in a persistent vegetative state are fighting in the High Court for him to receive - against medical advice - life-saving treatment if his condition deteriorates.
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HSJ Local
James Paget given clean bill of health
A Norfolk hospital has finally been given a clean bill of health by the Care Quality Commission after a concern over record keeping was addressed.