All Health Service Journal articles in 4 October 2012 – Page 3
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HSJ Local
Leeds North CCG names managerial nurse as accountable officer
STRUCTURE: NHS Leeds North CCG has designated a senior PCT managerial nurse as its accountable officer.
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HSJ Local
Senior nurse manager made accountable officer of NHS Leeds West CCG
STRUCTURE: A senior PCT managerial nurse has been appointed as designate accountable officer of NHS Leeds West CCG.
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HSJ Local
NEW Devon CCG names Tim Burke as chair and appoints managerial accountable officer
STRUCTURE: NHS North, East and West Devon CCG has named GP Tim Burke as its chair, and named a manager as designate accountable officer.
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HSJ Local
Sam Barrell named as South Devon and Torbay CCG accountable officer
STRUCTURE: GP Sam Barrell has been named as NHS South Devon and Torbay CCG’s designate accountable officer.
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News
CSU private partnerships 'essential' for QIPP
Partnerships between commissioning support units and the private sector will have an “essential” role in driving integrated care to enable the NHS to meet its efficiency challenge, HSJ has been told.
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News
Emergency medicine in 'crisis'
The Department of Health is to seek reassurances on medical staffing levels in emergency departments amid claims the specialty is in a recruitment and retention “crisis”.
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HSJ Knowledge
Protect your intellectual property
A look at protection, exploitation and dispute resolution
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News
Serco questions 'bullish' forecasts for community services growth
The managing director of outsourcing giant Serco’s health business has cast doubt on “bullish” forecasts of a rapid expansion of private sector provision of NHS community services.
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News
Trust bosses call for pay deal changes
HSJ’s disclosure of NHS Employers’ move to extend the pay freeze coincided with a warning from the acute sector that existing pay agreements were unsustainable.
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Leader
We must resist the siren voices to achieve pay reform
Pay reform in the NHS requires the wisdom of Solomon
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News
Planning, complaints and collaboration are common problems for CCGs
Early feedback from the clinical commissioning group authorisation process has highlighted planning, complaints and collaboration as some of the most difficult issues.
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News
DH abandons plan to stop 'cherry picking' through tariff change
The Department of Health has abandoned plans to prevent the “cherry picking” of straightforward patients and cases by independent sector providers by making further changes to the payment by results tariff, it has emerged.
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HSJ Knowledge
Structured group education vs diabetes
Structured self-management education can foster great confidence and independence among diabetes patients
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News
Cuts 'threaten drug abuse progress'
Funding cuts and reforms to public services risk reversing the declining trend in drug abuse among young people, campaigners have warned.
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News
Trusts 'fail on patient openness'
The families of patients who are victim of a “serious incident” at an NHS organisation may be waiting for a year before they are given any explanation, researchers found.
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News
Wolverhampton FT bid fails as CQC finds failings
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals Trust’s bid for foundation trust status has been deferred by Monitor after a recent Care Quality Commission inspection found essential standards were not being met, HSJ can reveal.
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News
EXCLUSIVE: NHS Employers backs pay freeze
Patient care will suffer unless the NHS pay freeze is extended into a third year, the body representing all major NHS employers is to warn.
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Comment
Geeky Burnham promises 'sensible' reform
Labour plan to repeal Health Act, but not a ‘top down’ reorganisation
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News
EXCLUSIVE: Worst performing London boroughs for GP outcomes revealed
An internal report on the quality of GP practices in London has found one cluster performing significantly worse than the other five.
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HSJ Local
Staff fears prompt nursing investment by FT
WORKFORCE: A Midlands hospital trust has announced plans to recruit dozens more nurses after staff voiced fears over ward shortages.