All Health Service Journal articles in 8 November 2013 – Page 4
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HSJ Local
Corby CCG appoints acting accountable officer
Corby clinical commissioning group has appointed Carole Dehghani as acting accountable officer.
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HSJ Local
Mid Yorkshire hospitals reconfiguration referred to Hunt
STRUCTURE: Plans to reconfigure Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust’s services have been referred to the health secretary.
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HSJ Local
Council leader accused of intimidating CCG staff
A council leader has reacted angrily to claims that he intimidated staff of Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group.
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News
Trust errors result in hundreds breaching waiting time target
A hospital trust has revealed it failed to properly record the waiting times of 60 per cent of its elective inpatients, causing hundreds of them not to receive treatment within the 18-week deadline.
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News
Health board IT failure looked at
Computer problems which seriously disrupted hospitals in a major health board area for two days at the beginning of October are now being investigated.
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News
Nick Clegg defends A&E closures
Nick Clegg has defended the government’s decision to downgrade two accident and emergency departments.
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HSJ Live: 1.11.13: Healthcare leaders react to 'integration pioneers' announcement
Hundreds of northwest London patients failed to receive treatment within specified time
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Comment
Pioneers can make person centred care a reality
Integration programme provides hope for better patient care
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Comment
Hospices need to change
Hospices can take the lead on meeting the needs of our growing ageing population
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News
Lamb: Failing integration pioneers could lose their status
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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HSJ Live: 31.10.13: Community services trusts developing benchmark indicators
They hope it will strengthen their arm when fighting off private firms’ bid to enter market
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GP and hospital records to be ‘linked’ by June
The flagship patient data service, care.data, will be able to “link” data from patients’ GP records to their hospital records by June next year, NHS England has announced.
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News
Hunt backs north west London reconfiguration
Jeremy Hunt has accepted the recommendations of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel to give a green light to a major reconfiguration of accident and emergency services in north west London.
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News
Higher death rate NHS trusts named
Seven NHS trusts have higher than expected death rates for patients who die in hospital or within 30 days of discharge, according to new data.
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Report calls for training changes
Doctors’ training must change to meet the needs of an ageing population, according to a major review.
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HSJ Local
Finance director leaves by 'mutual agreement'
The finance director of a district general hospital trust has “left by mutual agreement” just four months after being appointed, HSJ has learnt.
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HSJ Local
Cambridge incident not declared as never event
SAFETY: Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust failed to declare a never event incident, according to the Care Quality Commission.
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Comment
Houses of care need solid foundations
Creating a successful healthcare programme can be done if we all work together
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Comment
There is still hope for trusts seeking to merge
Bournemouth and Poole decision is not the end of the line