All Health Service Journal articles in 8 November 2013
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HSJ Local
"Zero tolerance" for pressure ulcers
Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust says it is taking a “zero tolerance” approach to pressure ulcers amongst its inpatients.
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News
HSJ launches hospital transformation microsite
HSJ has launched a new microsite and weekly email newsletter focusing on hospital transformation.
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HSJ Local
Second bidder drops out of £800m contract
A second bidder has dropped out the bidding process for an £800m older services people services contract being tendered by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group.
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HSJ Knowledge
Getting on board with 'patient experience'
Is a patient experience director need to keep the issue at the top of everyone’s agenda?
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HSJ Knowledge
Analysis, quality, rigour: what the new NHS chief means for you
Simon Stevens has a track record on incentives, benchmarking and innovation
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News
Analysed: drug pricing scheme promises better access to new medicines
Commissioners have been told they will gain easier access to the latest drugs approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence after the Department of Health reached a deal on pricing with the pharmaceutical industry.
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News
AHSN chief calls for new bodies to be given time to flourish
A leading academic health and science network figure has urged NHS England to give the new innovation networks 18 months to prove themselves and outlined the rationale behind them being set up as limited companies.
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News
BMA backs GP networks but rejects seven-day working 'mantra'
The chair of the British Medical Association’s GP committee has called for practices to “form network arrangements” and share staff to provide extended opening services and a “stronger community-based provision of care”.
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News
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HSJ Knowledge
Nine steps to an effective informatics strategy
How IT and data can be solve an organisation’s problems
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HSJ Knowledge
It's never been easier to change the world
How Twitter, blogging and chat rooms facilitate active citizenship
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Supplements
The battle to get the latest technology − an HSJ roundtable
The challenges of bringing innovative kit into hospitals in an age of austerity
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News
A&E units 'facing worst winter yet'
Accident and emergency departments in the NHS are facing what may be “our worst winter yet” due to a combination of soaring demand, a shortage of doctors and “toxic” overcrowding on hospital wards, a senior consultant has warned.
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HSJ Local
East London Foundation Trust appoints new non-executive director
East London Foundation Trust has appointed a new non-executive director.
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HSJ Local
CQC says Colchester should be placed into special measures
The Care Quality Commission has recommended that Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust be placed under special measures after a recent unannounced inspection led to the regulator referring its findings to the police.
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Comment
A healthy level of competition and choice
Mental health has quietly and effectively been using competition
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News
Innovation networks could 'fill gap left by SHAs'
HSJ has produced the first national audit of progress made by the NHS’s academic health science networks amid suggestions that the new bodies could take on far more expansive roles than originally envisaged.
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HSJ Knowledge
A strategic approach to promote research among CCGs
How to build and sustain a culture of research