All Health Service Journal articles in 29 November 2012 – Page 4
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HSJ Local
Plymouth Hospitals aims for openness
WORKFORCE: The executive team at Plymouth Hospitals Trust has set aside seven days dedicated to meeting with clinicians in its 35 service areas.
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HSJ Local
Ealing Hospital sees lower elective admissions rate
PERFORMANCE: Ealing Hospital Trust reported elective admissions were 11.7 per cent lower than the same period in the previous year.
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HSJ Local
Lack of capacity blamed for poor reporting on Swindon QIPP plans
FINANCE: Six out of seven of Swindon primary care trust cluster’s QIPP workstreams were rated amber by NHS South of England in September.
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HSJ Local
Hospital could be transferred to community ownership
Monitor has agreed to examine proposals to transfer a hospital site, currently part of the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, to local community ownership.
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Leader
Ofsted’s education in crisis management
Is Jeremy Hunt envious of education secretary Michael Gove?
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Leader
The strategy that dare not speak its name gets a new champion
Jeremy Hunt puts IT back on the agenda
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News
Board urges local leaders to push ahead on reconfiguration
The NHS Commissioning Board has indicated that health service leaders have only a “narrow window” to begin reconfiguration projects in their area as they can only count on political support until the end of 2013.
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News
CSUs frustrated by lack of clarity on funding
Commissioning support units are frustrated by an ongoing lack of clarity over how much income they will receive from the NHS Commissioning Board, HSJ has learned.
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News
Failings in mental health crisis care exposed
Two fifths of NHS mental health trusts do not have enough staff to offer adequate care to people suffering a mental health crisis, it has emerged.
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News
HSJ Live: rolling news 28.11.12
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Comment
Is the government doing enough?
Experienced leaders will have to prevent cracks in the system as the NHS changes
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HSJ Knowledge
All aboard for NHS exports?
The are potentially significant rewards for NHS organisations expanding overseas, but there are also risks
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Comment
Labour's vision of 21st century care
Liz Kendall outlines the approach Labour would take to NHS reform
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News
Hunt to announce plans for Ofsted-style hospital ratings
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is backing the introduction of an Ofsted-style rating system for hospitals and care homes in an attempt to end a “crisis of care” in parts of the system.
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HSJ Local
NHS Ealing top in the cluster for individual funding requests
PERFORMANCE: NHS Ealing is top in the NHS North West London cluster for individual funding requests, a report reveals.
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News
'Significant' risk in specialised services upheaval, says board
The new commissioning system for the £12bn specialist services budget in 2013-14 will be “radically different” but its introduction involves a “significant” risk, the NHS Commissioning Board has said.
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News
NHS 111 switch will be a 'big bang'
NHS 111 is likely to generate inappropriate referrals for a “considerable period of time”, a champion of the new non-emergency telephone number has told HSJ.
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News
'Whistleblowing' surgeon in High Court battle
A surgeon who claims he is being victimised for blowing the whistle about safety concerns at Alder Hey Children’s Foundation Trust in Liverpool will take his case to the High Court, HSJ has learned.
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News
Restrict friends and family test to hospitals, says DH
The new friends and family patient satisfaction test should initially be largely restricted to acute care settings rather than rolled out universally, according to a Department of Health cost-benefit analysis.
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News
New guidance for specialty doctors and employers
A planning guide to help specialty doctors and associate specialists with their often complex work has been published jointly by the NHS Employers organisation, the British Medical Association and the devolved administrations.