All articles by Judith Welikala – Page 13
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NHS England steps up work on pooling budgets
NHS England has begun detailed work on how to pool its primary care budgets with other commissioners, one of its senior leaders has revealed.
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HSJ Local
Chief departs Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust is to step down, the trust has announced.
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HSJ Local
Circle awarded £120m MSK contract
COMMERCIAL: Private provider Circle has become Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group’s prime contractor for its integrated musculoskeletal service after scooping a £120m five-year contract.
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Twenty pilots selected for extended hours fund
The government has today revealed the successful bidders for the prime minister’s £50m ‘challenge fund’, a budget to increase access to GP surgeries.
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DH and NHS England launch older people's programme
The Department of Health and NHS England have launched a £400m programme for vulnerable older people to reduce pressure on accident and emergency wards.
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CSU opts out of lead provider framework
The Central Eastern Clinical Commissioning Support Unit has shelved plans to bid for a place on NHS England’s ‘lead provider’ network, throwing its long-term viability into question.
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HSJ Local
Reform on the cards for Milton Keynes and Bedfordshire health services
STRUCTURE: : A Monitor-backed review of health services across Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes has pinpointed three key areas to be revamped across the two regions.
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HSJ Local
Essex County Hospital stripped of services
Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
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HSJ Local
Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby CCG appoints new chair
WORKFORCE: Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group has appointed David Williams as its lay chair.
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HSJ Local
Monitor launches investigation into Barnsley FT
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has launched an investigation into Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust, following concerns about the trust’s finances and its accident and emergency waiting times.
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HSJ Local
CCG plans to jointly commission children’s services with council
STRUCTURE: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group plans to jointly commission children’s services in Cambridgeshire with the local authority.
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Ministers: Involve providers in 'better care fund' talks
Norman Lamb and communities minister Brandon Lewis have jointly written to health and wellbeing board chairs calling for more involvement of providers in plans for the better care fund.
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HSJ Local
Police officers to be based at Royal Blackburn Hospital
WORKFORCE: Police liaison officers are to be based within the accident and emergency department at Royal Blackburn Hospital to help reduce aggression towards staff and unnecessary police attendance.
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Nicholson rates NHS England five out of 10
Outgoing NHS England chief executive Sir David Nicholson has rated his organisation just five out of 10.
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HSJ Local
Four CSUs abandon 'strategic alliance'
Four commissioning support units have abandoned plans to form a single “strategic alliance”.
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HSJ Local
Monitor to send contingency planning team into King’s Lynn
PERFORMANCE: Monitor is to send a contingency planning team to Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn to develop options for securing sustainable patient services at the financially troubled foundation trust.
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HSJ Local
Friarage maternity downgrade plan referred to health secretary
STRUCTURE: Plans to downgrade consultant led maternity services at South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust’s Friarage Hospital have been referred to the health secretary.
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HSJ Local
Basildon and Southend sign up private provider for pathology overhaul
COMMERCIAL: Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust and Southend University Hospital Foundation Trust have appointed private firm Integrated Pathology Partnerships to help reconfigure and run pathology services across south Essex.
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Field: Unannounced GP inspections will continue
The Care Quality Commission will continue to make unannounced inspections of GP practices after its new inspection regime comes into force, the chief inspector of general practice has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Interim chair appointed to troubled ambulance trust
WORFORCE: A former strategic health authority chair has been appointed as interim chair of the troubled East of England Ambulance Service Trust.