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NewsRoyal college to say hospital reconfiguration is 'inevitable'
Reconfiguration of hospital services is “inevitable” if better standards of hospital care are to be achieved, a major Royal College of Physicians report is expected to say.
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News'Opt-out' organ system becomes law in Wales
A new law creating the first opt-opt organ donation system in the UK is to be rubber-stamped at a special ceremony on 10 September.
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NewsTwitter chat: is A&E on the brink of a crisis?
Join experts from the NHS Confederation to discuss survey findings
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NewsInterview: New GP leader condemns PM's A&E plan
The chair elect of the Royal College of GPs has condemned the prime minister’s £500m accident and emergency bailout plan as “voodoo med-economics” and said it was driven by “political priorities ahead of a forthcoming general election”.
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NewsA&E departments 'could reach breaking point'
The prime minister has been accused of leaving accident and emergency departments on the “brink of a serious crisis” as a series of surveys reveal the concerns of patients, nurses and health service leaders.
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NewsRevised negligence scheme 'will not lead to big price swings'
Plans to scrap discounts on clinical negligence premiums will not lead to “big swings in price”, the chief executive of the NHS Litigation Authority has told HSJ.
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NewsRevealed: Hospitals' share of spend grows as GPs' slice shrinks
The proportion of NHS funding spent on hospital care increased in 2012-13, with general practice slightly reducing its share, official figures obtained by HSJ indicate.
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NewsOmbudsman report set to reveal sepsis failures
The NHS is failing to adequately diagnose and treat patients suffering from the life threatening condition sepsis, the parliamentary health service ombudsman will say in a report later this week, HSJ has been told.
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NewsDelays to PM's £100m nursing programme 'politically difficult'
A member of the group overseeing Downing Street’s drive to supply nurses with IT has expressed concern that tight timescales were leading to the exclusion of nurses from the project’s design, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsWarning over short term contracts
The government has issued a warning to hospital trusts that use short-term contracts to avoid paying tax.
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NewsGender abortions 'unacceptable', says Hunt
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has written to the government’s senior law officer for “urgent clarification” why two doctors accused of arranging abortions based on the sex of an unborn baby will not face prosecution.
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NewsThornton urges 'old guard' to take responsibility for Mid Staffs
The current leadership of the NHS should take “complete” responsibility for the culture of fear that led to the care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, the outgoing chief executive of the Health Foundation has told HSJ.
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BlogsOutpatient waits take the pain in Scotland
Scotland does well against its two main waiting times targets. So why are outpatient waits soaring?
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NewsTrust threatened CQC with legal action over A&E cap
The chief executive of a hospital trust threatened the Care Quality Commission with legal action if it capped the number of accident and emergency patients it could admit, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsAdditional £240m for NHS IT
The Department of Health has increased the size of a technology fund for improving access to electronic patient records, from £260m to £500m.
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HSJ KnowledgeSeconds out: time to beat the clock in A&E
The A&E crisis can only be solved with a system-wide solution
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NewsExclusive: Race 'a factor' in variability of sickle cell services
Wide variations in the quality of services for patients with rare blood disorders are at least partly a result of their prevalence among ethnic minority communities, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ Local
Peterborough and Stamford predicts £40m deficit
FINANCE Peterborough and Stamford Foundation Trust is on course to record a £40.3m budget deficit for 2013-14, in line with its forecast.
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NewsHospital chief executive resigns over A&E performance
The chief executive of Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust has resigned following problems with emergency department performance.
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NewsNHS England to publish trust-by-trust 'never events' list
NHS England is to publish quarterly lists of all the “never events” – the worst preventable mistakes – recorded in the NHS, broken down by trust, HSJ can reveal.