All articles by James Illman – Page 56
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DH paid consultants £73,000 to prepare official for MPs' grilling
The Department of Health spent more than £73,000 to prepare a senior official for a single appearance at the Public Accounts Committee.
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NewsOFT to probe health service IT market
The Office of Fair Trading has launched an investigation which will examine the health service IT market.
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NewsNHS England plans stricter guidelines on consultant data
NHS England faces running into further consultant opposition after it emerged it wants to impose stricter publishing guidelines on royal colleges for next year’s consultant performance data.
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NewsNHS England mulls open source patient record systems
NHS England is considering offering cash to trusts to develop “open source” software which it says offers flexibility and speeds up their development of electronic patient record systems.
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NewsVascular surgeon data ‘misrepresented’ by media
Questions have been raised about how data relating to individual surgeons’ mortality rates has been presented, both by the body that prepared it and the media.
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HSJ Local
Mass resignations at struggling ambulance trust
PERFORMANCE: The non-executive directors of East of England Ambulance Service Trust have resigned en masse following a barrage of criticism from MPs and a withering report on the trust’s performance and leadership.
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NewsIndividual trusts to publish surgeons’ data
Individual trusts’ websites will have to provide links to their consultants’ performance data – including mortality rates – by the end of July, under a flagship NHS transparency programme.
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Ambulance trust NEDs resign amid MPs' attacks
PERFORMANCE: Two non-executive directors are stepping down from the East of England Ambulance Service board following a barrage of criticism from MPs and a withering report on the trust’s performance and leadership.
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: The impact of pathology reorganisation
An in-depth look at two major pathology reorganisations in the Midlands and East of England and the wider implications
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NewsMinister pledged NHS Choices will be re-tendered before March 2014
Lord Howe has given “assurances” to private firms that a procurement exercise to outsource the NHS Choices website will take place before March 2014, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: NHS launches cyber security review of health service data
The NHS is launching a review of whether health and social care data is secure from hackers, amid increasing concerns about cyber security.
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NewsExclusive: Surgeons blocking data release will be named from next week
Consultants who block their outcome data from being published in a new transparency initiative will be “named and shamed” from next week, HSJ has learned.
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CQC to ‘suspend Lister Surgicentre licence’, says local MP
Privately-run Lister Surgicentre in Hertfordfordshire is set to have its licence suspended by the Care Quality Commission, according to a local MP.
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NewsExclusive: Surgeons may not be able to block performance data publication, NHS England believes
NHS England has received legal advice which says surgeons cannot block publication of their performance data, HSJ has been told.
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NewsDH sets aside £600m for 'rotten' Lorenzo ‘bribes’
The Department of Health has set aside £600m to pay up to 22 NHS trusts to procure a patient records system branded “completely useless” by a senior MP, it has emerged.
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NewsNicholson rejects gagging order allegations
Sir David Nicholson has insisted he “absolutely refutes” allegations he has been complicit in a “cover up” about the use of gagging orders in the NHS.
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NewsLibel conundrum leads to confusion over patient feedback plan
Mixed signals over comment moderation
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HSJ LocalPeterborough and Stamford FT ‘financially unsustainable’
Debt-laden Peterborough and Stamford Foundation Trust is “financially unsustainable in its current form”, independent investigators have concluded.
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NewsFarrar calls for 10-year plan for NHS
The NHS needs to embark on a new 10-year strategy in order to remain sustainable in the long-term, the NHS Confederation has been told by its chief executive Mike Farrar.
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HSJ Local
East of England Ambulance reports budget deficit for sixth months in a row
FINANCE: East of England Ambulance Service Trust is likely to miss its financial plans after recording a deficit position for the sixth consecutive month.