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HSJ LocalNHS leaders warn of 'significant risks' of blocking reconfiguration
Health leaders in the North East have warned councillors of the “significant risk” to protecting patient safety if they seek to block a reconfiguration of “vulnerable” acute services.
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NewsExclusive: Two patients attacked and killed on acute hospital ward
An NHS trust has been accused of a “cover up” over the killing of two patients in an attack on a hospital ward by a patient with paranoid schizophrenia, and whose antipsychotic medication had been stopped despite warnings.
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NewsDozens of violent incidents on hospital ward before fatal attack
The hospital ward where two elderly patients were attacked and fatally injured by a fellow patient was the scene of dozens of violent incidents before the attack, a report leaked to HSJ reveals.
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HSJ LocalTrust apologises after fatal ward attack on patients
Two NHS trusts have accepted failings which contributed to the killing of two patients on a hospital medical ward in 2015, and set out the actions they have taken since.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Towards good news
Andy Cowper shares some bits of actual good news peppered with a dash of a downer at the end.
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NewsTrust chair criticises 'failure' to act on service change
A departing chair has said his trust has been held back over the past 20 years because of the local system’s failure to take action to improve services.
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NewsVascular surgery must be centralised, government report says
Getting It Right First Time report says vascular surgery services need to be centralised Large variation in access to stroke-preventing surgery Sets minimum staff and procedure numbers for surgery hubs England’s vascular surgery services are “not configured to meet clinical need” and are resulting in unnecessarily long waits ...
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: ACO out, ICS in
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners. By Dave West.
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CommentThe back story of the former bagel mogul behind ‘Care BnB’
The CareRooms concept occurred to me after spending the last 25 years in healthcare and being a long term carer for my father, who died in 2016. But I started off selling bagels. By CareRooms chief executive Paul Gaudin
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NewsTrust criticised after five falls deaths in frailty unit
An acute trust has been heavily criticised by a coroner after five patients died following falls in the same frailty unit within four months.
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NewsNHS accused of inflating bank rates under pressure from regulator
Agencies accuse trusts of upping rates paid to bank workers to reduce agency spend Recruitment and Employment Confederation says move may be “anticompetitive” News comes as NHS Improvement data shows £400m year on year bank spend increase, and predicts £843m overspend in 2017-18 Agencies supplying temporary staff to ...
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NewsIn full: Pathology network proposals
HSJ approached the 29 pathology networks proposed by NHS Improvement to ask if local trusts had signed up. In most cases the proposed “hub” trust was able to answer on behalf of its network.
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NewsNHSI pathology proposals agreed by less than half of trusts
Less than half of areas have so far fully agreed to NHS Improvement’s plans to set up a regional pathology network, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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NewsRevealed: 'Zero day' stays driving emergency admission growth
Two thirds of the growth in emergency admissions in recent years has been for patients who are discharged without an overnight stay, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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NewsSerco set to take over Carillion NHS contracts
Facilities management services at five NHS hospital trusts could be taken over by Serco in a £29m deal, following the collapse of Carillion.
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NewsProfessions call for more regulation following patient death
A patient’s death has prompted representatives of radiographers and radiologists to call for more regulation of sonographers.
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NewsCQC to investigate what stops trusts preventing never events
The Care Quality Commission is to investigate the “barriers” that prevent hospitals from implementing rules designed to prevent never events.
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HSJ LocalHospital services centralised in North East shake-up
Commissioners in the North East have approved plans to shift a range of hospital based services from South Tyneside to Sunderland.
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NewsRevealed: 58 trusts admit they will miss financial plan
NHS Improvement has accepted formal revisions to the financial forecasts of almost 60 NHS trusts, according to data published today.
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NewsUpdated: NHS trusts predict £930m deficit
The combined deficit of NHS trusts is now forecast to grow to £930m by the end of 2017-18, according to figures published by NHS Improvement today.