All Health Service Journal articles in 4 April 2014
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NewsExclusive: Leaked emails reveal high level row over special measures move
The chair of a large teaching hospital has resigned in protest after claiming the NHS Trust Development Authority had pre-judged the results of a Care Quality Commission inspection, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentWe need a new language around whistleblowing
Making raising concerns safer and more effective
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NewsMPs: Monitor ‘must not be an obstacle to change’
Acute services in the NHS in England are facing a year of particular financial pressure in 2015-16, when changes to funding arrangements will see £2bn transferred to community health and social care provision, a parliamentary report has warned.
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NewsNicholson rates NHS England five out of 10
Outgoing NHS England chief executive Sir David Nicholson has rated his organisation just five out of 10.
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NewsCQC set to run list of 'unfit' directors
A register of poorly performing NHS directors is to be set up and maintained by the Care Quality Commission to prevent “unfit” managers working and moving between health and care providers.
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HSJ LocalBristol CCG plans £250m community services tender
Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group has approved plans to tender the city’s community health services and said it anticipates “significant” interest in the contract from providers across the country.
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Big FT chiefs: Trust independence should not prevent takeover
The chief executives of some of England’s most powerful hospital trusts have warned that the organisational independence of other providers should not be a barrier to them being taken over.
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NewsMajor pathology reorganisation to go ahead after OFT all clear
The NHS’s biggest pathology reorganisation will take place in May, after the Office of Fair Trading ruled it would not be investigating the plan further.
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Concerns over palliative death recording
The way hospitals record deaths could be covering up poor treatment and costing lives, according to a new report.
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HSJ Local
Police officers to be based at Royal Blackburn Hospital
WORKFORCE: Police liaison officers are to be based within the accident and emergency department at Royal Blackburn Hospital to help reduce aggression towards staff and unnecessary police attendance.
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NewsCompetition to run district general hospital is abandoned
A tender process for the running of George Eliot Hospital Trust has been abandoned, it was announced today.
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NewsHunt safety plans 'will require frontline investment'
Providers will need to invest “significant” time in ensuring frontline staff can deliver the plans to improve patient safety which were announced by the health secretary last week, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to improve care for older people: HSJ readers' ideas
HSJ readers share their ideas
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HSJ Knowledge
Your top ideas: structural changes and funding
Ways to improve care for frail older people
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NewsReview reveals failings by nursing regulator in Mid Staffs cases
The Nursing and Midwifery Council failed to properly investigate 17 former nurses at the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust according to an audit by the Professional Standards Authority.