All Health Service Journal articles in 29 March 2012 – Page 3
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HSJ Local
Patient confidentiality breaches at Herts Community Trust
PERFORMANCE: Seven breaches of patient confidentiality occurred in Hertfordshire Community Trust in the first nine months of the financial year - six of them in children’s services.
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HSJ Local
Deficit reduces at Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust
FINANCE: Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust’s financial position improved slightly in January with a surplus of £857,000 for the month reducing the deficit for the year to date to £288,000.
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HSJ Local
MP calls for probe into regulator following Morecambe Bay scandal
PERFORMANCE: An MP has called for an inquiry into foundation trust regulator Monitor after its chairman admitted it was “very likely” there were deeper problems present at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay when it was granted FT status.
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News
UPDATED: Staff keep NHS pensions as Virgin's Surrey deal goes through
Virgin Care has signed a £500m community services contract with NHS Surrey under an arrangement which will see staff employed by a social enterprise.
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HSJ Local
Royal Free authorised as Foundation Trust
STRUCTURE: The north London acute was today authorised as a foundation trust by Monitor.
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News
MPs find CQC is 'not up to the job'
The Care Quality Commission is not up to the job of registering 10,000 GP practices during the next year and should not take on responsibility for regulating IVF services, MPs have warned.
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HSJ Local
SHIP fails to cut emergency demand
PERFORMANCE: Hampshire primary care trusts are continuing to buck a national trend with rising demand for non-elective services.
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HSJ Local
Oxfordshire NHS and academic bodies form partnership
STRUCTURE: NHS and academic bodies have agreed to establish an “Oxford Academic Health Partnership”.
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News
Nicholson: commissioning staff will know job fate by December
Commissioning staff will find out whether they have a place in the new commissioning system, and many will be transferred, by December, NHS Commissioning Board chief executive Sir David Nicholson has announced.
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Comment
'Technology could change the way medicine is practiced'
IT must be embraced as a clinical tool.
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HSJ Local
Mid Staffs medical director announces resignation
WORKFORCE: The medical director of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has announced he is to resign, less than six months before the end of his contract.
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Supplements
Organisation and workforce efficiency - an HSJ special supplement
This week’s bumper 30-page HSJ supplement looks at efficiency in healthcare organisations, including exclusive articles on partnership working, estates management, workforce management and cost reduction, procurement and outsourcing.
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News
Lansley condemns expensive GP phone calls
Patients should not be charged premium phone call rates to make an appointment with their GP, health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
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News
Doctor employed by trusts despite 'mercy killing' conviction
A foreign doctor convicted of the “mercy killing” of a patient in Spain later got a job with police in the UK, medical watchdogs have heard.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to inspire a generation of entrepreneurial leaders in healthcare
A major challenge for commissioners is how to foster clinicians with the potential to become entrepreneurs. Kingsley Manning has some advice.
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Leader
New NHS system threatens a tsunami of hospital mergers
A wave of reconfiguration is on the horizon.
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HSJ Knowledge
Keeping afloat: how trusts can survive under the new NHS failure regime
Takeover or oblivion are possibilities for some NHS organisations in the new order – so what are they doing to clutch victory from the jaws of defeat, asks Alison Moore.
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Comment
Michael White: regional pay policy needs greater attention
The maximum fuss was over minimum pricing.
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HSJ Knowledge
How managing talent can transform health organisation development
Harnessing the leadership talent among an organisation’s staff can help drive a winning business transformation, as Simon Large and Steve Keyes from Bradford District Care Trust explain.
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News
Acute sector faces wave of mergers and reconfigurations
The English NHS hospital sector is facing a wave of mergers, acquisitions and reconfigurations, HSJ’s extensive survey of trust chief executives has revealed.