All HSJ Local articles – Page 169
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HSJ LocalYorkshire trust looks to India to fill nurse vacancies
WORKFORCE: Managers from Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust plan to go to India later this month with the aim of recruiting 70 nurses.
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HSJ LocalPharmacies step in to help ease pressure on GP surgeries
PRIMARY CARE: Pharmacies in the North East have started to provide free pain killers so that patients with minor ailments do not have to make appointments with their GPs.
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Academic health science network gives universities £250,000 grant
Ten universities across Sheffield and the East Midlands are to share in a £250,000 grant designed to help spread best practice in health education.
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HSJ LocalCommissioners seek to expand pharmacists’ role
COMMUNITY SERVICES: Pharmacists in the North East may be expected to expand their role to help reduce hospital admissions and identify more patients with previously undiagnosed long term conditions, commissioners have said.
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HSJ LocalInvestigation into rise in unborn children requiring protection plans
PERFORMANCE: Safeguarding experts are investigating why the number of unborn children subject to a child protection plan more than doubled to 65 over one quarter during 2014.
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HSJ LocalTrust pledges improvements after review of patients who committed murder
PERFORMANCE: South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust has drawn up an action plan to learn lessons from six historical cases involving patients who committed murders while under its care.
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HSJ LocalBradford launches drive to tackle cardiovascular disease
PERFORMANCE: More than 200 extra patients in Yorkshire have started anticoagulation therapy through a programme to reduce the incidence of cardiovascular diseases and cut rates of stroke and heart attack.
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HSJ LocalUpdated: ‘Unique’ consortium wins Birmingham mental health contract
COMMERCIAL: A consortium involving public, private and voluntary sector providers has been appointed preferred bidder for a £124m contract to deliver joined up mental health services to children, adolescents and young adults in Birmingham.
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HSJ LocalCMA to investigate Surrey trusts' merger plan
The proposed merger between two trusts in Surrey has hit a stumbling block after the Competition and Markets Authority said the merger could have ‘adverse effects’ for patients and it has launched an investigation.
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UHNM launches partnership with GP surgery
University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust has launched a partnership with local GP surgery Nantwich Health Centre for plastic surgery, gynaecology and neurology patients in south Cheshire.
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A&E consultants resign en masse from trust
Five accident and emergency consultants have resigned from a troubled West Midlands acute trust across two hospitals, including all four consultants from one department.
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HSJ LocalGP 'super-practice' care model will 'break commissioning barriers'
STRUCTURE: A GP ‘super-practice’ is seeking to trial new models of care outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View to ‘break down commissioning barriers’ and ‘innovate at a faster pace’.
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HSJ LocalDermatology procurement delayed after preferred bidder pulls out
STRUCTURE: The procurement of a new dermatology service in Brighton has been delayed because the preferred bidder has pulled out after it was unable to reach agreement with organisations it wanted to subcontract work from.
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HSJ LocalSheffield organisations pitch £260m 'vanguard' care plan
STRUCTURE: Health and care organisations have agreed to pool £260m to redesign and commission services together in their application to become a “vanguard site” for the new models of care outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
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HSJ LocalMorecambe Bay hospital services reconfiguration plans revealed
STRUCTURE: Plans have been unveiled to reconfigure services at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust by phasing out most of the inpatient surgery at one of its hospitals.
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HSJ LocalAcute trusts seek to establish 'blueprint' for regional locum agencies
COMMERCIAL: Nine South West trusts have embarked on an initiative to bring down the cost of hiring locum doctors, which it hopes will be a “blueprint” for the health service across the country.
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HSJ LocalLocal influence over community hospitals at risk, warns Devon trust chief
COMMERCIAL: The leader of a Devon trust has warned that local influence over how a number of its community hospitals are used will lessen if it loses possession of the sites.
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Sheffield health and care FT heading for £2.4m surplus
FINANCES: Sheffield Health and Social Care Foundation Trust’s latest financial forecasts show that the organisation is heading for a surplus of £2.42m at the end of 2014-15.
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Nursing shortages hit community services
WORKFORCE: A fifth of community nursing shifts were short staffed in December at Rotherham Foundation Trust, board papers show.
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Harrogate highlights maternity staffing problem
WORKFORCE: Vacancies and sickness meant that only about half of planned support worker hours were filled in the delivery room at Harrogate and District Hospitals Foundation Trust in December.