All East Midlands articles – Page 46
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HSJ LocalLeicester Hospitals adopts automated drugs system
COMMERCIAL: University Hospitals of Leicester Trust is to adopt a hi-tech medicines management system which will use robots to pack individual drug doses.
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HSJ LocalNene CCG chief to step down
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Nene Clinical Commissioning Group is to step down from his role to help set up an organisation spreading “high impact” ideas across the health sector
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HSJ KnowledgeIt started with a tweet: how social media sparked a campaign for change
Twitter turns a ‘tiny idea’ into a national campaign
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InformationNick Renaud-Komiya
Nick covers East Midlands and West Midlands. nick.renaud-komiya@emap.com
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CommentWaiting list initiative ends with a sprint but achieves little
The waiting list size hardly budged
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NewsUncertainty for dermatology patients as acute service faces axe
Concerns have been raised about ongoing uncertainty over arrangements for emergency dermatology patients at a major teaching hospital, just a month before the service is set to be axed.
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HSJ LocalCardiology to be merged across Northamptonshire hospitals
STRUCTURE: Cardiology services are set to be merged across Northamptonshire’s two major acute hospital trusts, commissioners have said.
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NewsHSJ leadership inquiry member knighted in new year's honours
Sam Everington, chair of Tower Hamlets CCG, is among a number of NHS managers, nurses and doctors included in the new year’s honours list
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HSJ LocalNotts trust plans to improve access to urgent care
STRUCTURE: Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust plans to improve access to urgent care services at Newark Hospital at a cost of £1.2m.
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SupplementsHSJ Rising Stars 2014
Identifying ambitious rising stars driving opportunities in healthcare
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NewsExclusive: Service hit by staff 'exodus' after CCG transfers contract to Circle
One of the biggest teaching trusts in England has been forced to axe its once renowned acute dermatology service following an “exodus” of medical consultants following the transfer of their contract to private provider Circle.
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HSJ LocalCCG chair steps down to lead GP 'super-practice'
STRUCTURE: The chair of Corby Clinical Commissioning Group is stepping down from the role to lead a merged GP ‘super-practice’ which aims to become the largest primary care provider in England.
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NewsAspirant FTs could have option to become a mutual
NHS trusts could in future choose between becoming a foundation trust or an independent mutually owned company as the provider sector becomes increasingly ‘fluid and uncertain’, HSJ has been told.
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NewsTwo commissioning support units plan to merge
Two commissioning support units have announced they will formally merge.
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SupplementsGood practice case study: setting the course for better elderly care
Leicester’s interface geriatrics program seeks to diminish hospital admissions among the oldest old through comprehensive geriatric assessment
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SupplementsGood practice case study: making frailty everyone's business
Derby Hospitals Foundation Trust screens all acute admissions for frailty
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SupplementsGood practice case study: specialist care for confused older patients
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust set up a specialist unit so patients with delirium would not have to be treated in noisy and crowded wards
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HSJ LocalOxfordshire better care fund plan 'unrealistic'
Oxfordshire commissioners failed to submit a realistic better care fund plan in part because they were distracted by work on other local integration initiatives, they have admitted.
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NewsAnalysis: Distressed health economies' leaders doubt books will balance
Senior leaders in several of the NHS’s ‘challenged health economies’ are not confident their area will be in financial balance in five years’ time, even after months of intensive support from national organisations