All Health Service Journal articles in 3 May 2013 – Page 3
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Nene launches medicine waste campaign
FINANCE: Nene CCG has launched waste medicines campaign in order to tackle the problem of patients “stockpiling” medication at home and then throwing it away.
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Mansfield CCG highlights transfers problem at Sherwood Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Recent board papers from Mansfield and Ashfield CCG warn of the high level of delayed transfers of care at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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Fluck named as renal tsar
STRUCTURE:A leading kidney expert from Derby Hospitals, Dr Richard Fluck, practising consultant in renal medicine has been appointed as National Clinical Director for Renal Disease by the NHS Medical Director, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh.
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Nottingham consultants given clinical lead roles
STRUCTURE: Three consultants from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust are to play a key role in shaping NHS policy in critical care and major trauma.
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Keyhole kidney stone treatment introduced at Huddersfield
SERVICES: Keyhole treatment for kidney stones is now available at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, saving patients a journey to Wakefield or Leeds. And a new centralised urology unit at the hospital can also use lithotropsy to break up smaller stones.
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Vale of York CCG plans £3.3m surplus and to pay off debt
FINANCE: Vale of York CCG is planning for a surplus of £3.3m in its first financial year – but hopes to pay off nearly £3.5M of the deficit it is inheriting.
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Calderdale and Huddersfield leading on new cornea surgery
SERVICES: Patients at Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust are benefiting from a new cornea transplant process.
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PCT chair joins acute trust board
WORKFORCE: A former primary care trust chair has joined Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust as a non-executive director.
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New non-executive for Hull and East Yorks
WORKFORCE: Andy Snowden has been appointed as a non-executive director at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust.
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HSJ KnowledgeModernising the musculoskeletal pathway
Care in the community can provide better results for patients
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CommentTurnaround is everybody's problem
Reversing a trust’s financial fortunes is a job for the whole organisation
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NewsHSJ Live 1.5.2013: Hunt 'confident NHS spending protected'
Debates on protection of the NHS budget and medical leadership continue, and the rest of today’s news
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CommentMichael White: vultures circle the NHS
Some Lords fear lawyers and corporations will cherry-pick the service
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Plymouth Hospitals goes overseas to recruit nurses
WORKFORCE: Plymouth Hospital Trust has held recruitment days in Belfast and Dublin in a bid to recruit registered nurses.
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NewsCare claims backlog 'will take five years to clear'
The deluge of retrospective claims for continuing healthcare funding that flooded into the NHS last year will take at least half a decade to be resolved, lawyers have warned.
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Bolton makes £3.7m provision for continuing care backlog
FINANCE: Bolton CCG set aside a provision of £3.7m in 2012-13 to cover the potential future costs of settling backdated claims for Continuing Healthcare funding, board papers state.
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Bolton FT cuts ‘backlog’ of long waiters
PERFORMANCE: In the final three months of 2012-13 Bolton Foundation Trust more than halved its ‘backlog’ of patients who had been waiting more than 18 weeks for admission, according to clinical commissioning group board papers.
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NewsMedics slam radiotherapy 'red tape'
A group of doctors has claimed in a letter that changes to NHS commissioning is delaying radiotherapy treatment and putting patients’ lives at risk.
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Community hospital moves patients due to gas leak
PERFORMANCE: Eighteen elderly patients had to be moved from a community hospital at the weekend after an underground gas leak.