All Health Service Journal articles in 24 May, 2013
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HSJ Local
Privacy highly rated at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare
PERFORMANCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing above average in the inpatient survey for levels of privacy during examinations.
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Poor delayed discharge score for Medway
PERFORMANCE: Medway NHS Foundation Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing below average in the inpatient survey for delayed discharge.
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Royal Surrey discusses equipment needs with patients
PERFORMANCE: Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing above average in the inpatient survey for discussing with patients whether they needed special equipment at home following discharge.
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HSJ Local
Ashford and St Peter’s scores poorly on discharge notification
PERFORMANCE: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing below average in the inpatient survey for giving patients notice of discharge.
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Docs treat patients with dignity at Queen Victoria FT
PERFORMANCE: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing above average in the inpatient survey for the way doctors acted around them.
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Patients at Queen Victoria FT confident in nurses
PERFORMANCE: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing above average in the inpatient survey for levels of confidence and trust in nursing staff.
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HSJ Local
East Kent Hospitals moves to integrate clinical information systems
COMMERCIAL: East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust has procured a clinical portal as part of attempts to improve efficiency and patient care.
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HSJ Local
Keogh mortality rates team publish details after Basildon visit
PERFORMANCE Details of the key areas the Keogh mortality rates review are investigating at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust have been published on the NHS Choices website.
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NewsHunt plans £260m to help hospitals go digital
Hospitals are due to be funded to improve their “outdated” paper patient notes and prescriptions, under plans expected to be announced by the health secretary.
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NewsExclusive: Mass board resignations at ex-NHS social enterprise
The chair and other non-executive directors of a social enterprise providing NHS community services have resigned en masse following a row over executive pay, HSJ has learned.
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CommentWhat can NHS leaders learn from the voluntary sector?
Lessons from innovators in the third sector
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CommentMonitor will be a fair and pragmatic regulator
We will be rigorous proportionate and enforcing the rules
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News
Uncertainty grows over NHS Direct's future
NHS Direct may not continue to deliver the NHS 111 service beyond the end of this financial year, it has emerged.
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NewsKelsey: Prescriptions and observations IT are clinicians' top priorities
Trusts will be able to bid for a share of a £260m fund to finance e-prescribing and real time patient record keeping systems, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced today.
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HSJ KnowledgeGetting the most out of your board
How non-executive directors can improve trust boards
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HSJ KnowledgeTaking the risk out of care handovers
Continuity of care demands seamless and mobile use of information
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HSJ Local
Oxfordshire CCG highlights finance uncertainty
FINANCE: An Oxfordshire CCG board paper warns that the baseline allocations exercise that has set the CCG’s income “could prove to be materially different than the actual value of activity transfers”.
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NewsHSJ Live: 20.05.2013 Monitor publishes procurement guidance for CCGs
Regulator reveals draft guidance to help CCGs adhere to Section 75
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NewsClinical commissioners say GPs under pressure as A&E row escalates
NHS Clinical Commissioners, which represents a large number of clinical commissioning groups, has said GP “workloads are at breaking points and GPs are ready to buckle under the strain”, which will affect willingness to take part in commissioning.
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NewsA&E performance tracker to 12 May: England's hospitals miss waiting target
HSJ is tracking the performance of hopsitals in England every week