Acute Care – Page 203
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NewsNorman Lamb: Mid Staffs would never have happened at a mutual
Health minister Norman Lamb has suggested acute trusts could improve staff engagement by becoming social enterprises and argued that the culture problems seen at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust would never happen in a mutually-owned company.
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CommentPayment by results reform needs vision and realism
The tariff must fit into the new financial reality
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HSJ Local
Ipswich Hospital Trust pays ‘more than £5m’ compensation to disabled boy
Ipswich Hospital Trust has paid “more than £5m” in compensation to a seven-year-old boy who was left severely disabled after the hospital was judged to have mismanaged his birth.
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NewsEmergency care could move off tariff
Monitor and NHS England are considering moving away from the tariff payment system for emergency and urgent care, it emerged last week.
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CommentNational cancer survey kick-starts care transformation
Providing better care for cancer patients in London
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Blogs
I don’t need to go to hospital, I just need to go home to bed
Sometimes the patient knows best.
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NewsMonitor seeks solution to competition impasse
Monitor is in with talks with the Office of Fair Trading to try to prevent trusts which want to merge from facing drawn out inquiries under competition law, HSJ has been told.
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NewsChoices to change friends and family presentation
NHS England has agreed to change the way the results of the friends and family test are presented online by NHS Choices following complaints from trusts, HSJ has learned.
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NewsA&Es facing 'intolerable pressures'
Urgent action must be taken to ensure that emergency departments remain safe and sustainable, doctors have warned.
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NewsGovernment called on to strengthen controversial failure regime
The government has been asked to strengthen the NHS failure regime so regulators can recommend changes to services and structures across several providers.
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NewsLegal threat over Burnham 'cover-up' claims
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been threatened with potential legal action by Labour in a dramatic escalation of a row over claims of a “cover-up” of NHS care shortcomings.
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SupplementsBeating down the barriers - an HSJ roundtable
HSJ’s latest roundtable agreed that the potential savings in commissioning are huge - but age old problems stand in the way of realising them
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NewsProviders hit with raised efficiency requirement
Providers will lose hundreds of millions of pounds in income under Monitor and NHS England plans to raise the efficiency assumptions that govern how much they are paid under tariff.
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NewsChanges to emergency admissions tariff planned
The marginal tariff for hospital emergency care will be retained in 2014-15, but the policy will be modified.
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HSJ Local
Portsmouth's withdrawal scuppers local pathology plan
STRUCTURE: Portsmouth Hospitals Trust has frustrated its neighbours by pulling out of a proposed local pathology consortium weeks before it was due to go live, citing concerns over governance arrangements and the savings potential of the project.
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NewsScotland to review NHS IT after Glasgow system failure
A review has been ordered of Scottish NHS IT systems after a failure forced a major health board to cancel hundreds of appointments.
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NewsNearly half of acute hospital trusts predict deficit
The NHS hospital trust sector is predicting a deficit at the end of this financial year, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentThe friends and family test: a different view
How to recognise and fulfil the test’s potential