All East Midlands articles – Page 36
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Exclusive: Barbara Hakin to retire
NHS England national commissioning operations director Dame Barbara Hakin is to retire by the end of the year.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to balance the push and pull of performance and demand
Hospital performance targets
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HSJ Local
Fallout from Nottingham dermatology collapse hits nearby trust
PERFORMANCE: The high profile collapse of dermatology services at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust is now having a knock-on effect on the services at a neighbouring trust, board papers indicate.
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Exclusive: Agency spending clampdown team will be made up of temporary staff
Details have emerged of the Monitor team that will drive the clampdown on agency staff spending.
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HSJ Local
Lincs acute trust replaces ultrasound machines
COMMERCIAL: Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Trust has purchased three ultrasound machines, costing a total of £180,000, as part of a rolling replacement programme.
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Revealed: Which CCGs are paying GP practices to form federations
A third of clinical commissioning groups with control of their primary care budgets plan to fund member GP practices to get them to form federations, HSJ has found
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Capita wins contract to support ‘hub and spoke’ pathology venture
Outsourcing company Capita has been awarded a contract to deliver a blood transfusion system as part of plans to create a centralised pathology service across Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire.
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HSJ Local
FT encourages staff to join credit union
WORKFORCE: Derbyshire Community Health Services Foundation Trust is urging all its staff to join a credit union, HSJ has learned.
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Exclusive: CCGs choose not to use power to ditch QOF
There is a little appetite among clinical commissioning groups to move their member practices off the national GP pay for performance framework, despite recently being given powers to do so, HSJ has found.
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HSJ Local
United Lincolnshire appoints non-exec director
WORKFORCE: United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has appointed Gillian Ponder as a non-executive director on its board.
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HSJ Knowledge
MCP vanguard leaders: We will find the solutions
MCP vanguards report on their progress
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Supplements
Supplement: Social care crises require a rapid response
How the British Red Cross supports patients in social crises
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HSJ Local
Trust chief speaks out over commissioning 'disaster'
COMMISSIONING: The chief executive of Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has urged the NHS to learn from the commissioning mistakes which led to the collapse of the trust’s dermatology service.
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HSJ Local
Updated: Police investigate patient death at learning disability unit
PATIENT SAFETY: Detectives have launched an investigation into the circumstances of a patient’s death at a learning disability unit in Lincolnshire.
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HSJ Local
Fourth largest acute trust reveals £50m deficit forecast
One of the largest teaching hospitals in England is forecasting a year-end deficit of almost £50m, HSJ has been told.
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CCGs told to fund more hospital activity
NHS England expects clinical commissioning groups to fund more hospital activity than initially planned this year, prompting concerns that this could undermine non-acute services intended to reduce emergency admissions.
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Government considers cap on 'egregious' agency spend
A cap on the cost of agency staff supplied to NHS trusts is being explored by the Cabinet Office and Department of Health in an attempt to tackle the ballooning agency spend in the NHS, it has emerged.