All Health Service Journal articles in 8 November 2013 – Page 3
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News
CCGs and NHS England report growing budget shortfalls
The number of clinical commissioning groups expecting to record a deficit at the end of this year has nearly tripled to 24, while NHS England is also expecting to overspend its own budgets by £93m.
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News
Analysed: Lamb's integration pioneers
The Department of Health’s integrated care “pioneers” will be monitored centrally to check progress against their plans and could be stripped of their status if they lose their way, health minister Norman Lamb has said.
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News
Ministers to legislate on £3.8bn pooled budget
The government will amend the Care Bill so it can force clinical commissioning groups to share a chunk of their budgets with local authorities, a health minister has told HSJ.
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HSJ Knowledge
Podcast: How social media is changing care support
Vickie Cammack talks about virtual care providers
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Comment
Michael White: Hunt's plan halted by NHS nimbys
Hospital closures prompt too much shroud waving
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HSJ Knowledge
A paperless future through the eyes of a junior doctor
Grassroots enthusiasm for change is vital for a paperless NHS
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HSJ Partners
What are the barriers to achieving a paperless NHS by 2018?
Have your say to Jeremy Hunt
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HSJ Local
C difficile cases in West Suffolk spark external review
West Suffolk Foundation Trust has commissioned an external review after C difficile infections in hospitals continued into September, according to board papers.
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HSJ Local
A&E performance raised in County Durham FT contract meeting
PERFORMANCE: County Durham and North Darlington Foundation Trust failed to meet its 95 per cent four hour A&E wait target in September, and this was “formally discussed” at a contract meeting, according to board papers from North Durham CCG.
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Leader
The fear of an irrevocable tipping point haunts plans to rescue A&E
There are two kinds of performance problems large enough to set alarm bells ringing at national level and get newspaper leader writers dusting off their “NHS in crisis” clichés.
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News
Morecambe Bay investigation will seek families' input
Further details have emerged of the independent inquiry into University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust’s maternity and neonatal services.
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News
More emergency departments breach waiting time targets
Increasing numbers of accident and emergency patients are being treated outside the maximum four hour wait year on year over the past four summers, an HSJ analysis shows.
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News
Health burden is greatest during moderately cold weather
The NHS has been urged to place greater emphasis on supporting vulnerable groups during periods of moderately cold rather than freezing temperatures after a study suggested this is when services come under greatest strain.
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News
CQUIN bar 'set too low' says innovation chief
The standards required by trusts to receive incentive payments designed to drive innovation were “probably set too low”, NHS England’s innovation chief said last week.
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News
'Large variations' in place of death
There are “large variations” across England in the proportion of people who die at hospital or in their own homes, figures show.
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News
Cancer survival rate highlighted
Cancer patients living in the most deprived parts of England are a third less likely to be alive five to 10 years after diagnosis than those in the most affluent areas.
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News
HSJ Live 4.11.13: NHS warned about greater dangers of moderately cold weather
Services come under most strain in these conditions, says Public Health England
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News
HSJ celebrates innovation in healthcare
This week HSJ will announce our list of the 50 most innovative people in the sector.
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HSJ Knowledge
Helen Bevan: Three steps to a new innovation strategy
How to achieve better healthcare services from existing resources