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NewsPrivately-run centre breaches 18-week standard
Patients are being diverted away from a privately-run treatment centre because the 18-week referral-to-treatment standard is being breached.
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NewsMPs find CQC is 'not up to the job'
The Care Quality Commission is not up to the job of registering 10,000 GP practices during the next year and should not take on responsibility for regulating IVF services, MPs have warned.
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SHIP fails to cut emergency demand
PERFORMANCE: Hampshire primary care trusts are continuing to buck a national trend with rising demand for non-elective services.
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Oxfordshire NHS and academic bodies form partnership
STRUCTURE: NHS and academic bodies have agreed to establish an “Oxford Academic Health Partnership”.
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Mid Staffs medical director announces resignation
WORKFORCE: The medical director of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has announced he is to resign, less than six months before the end of his contract.
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Isle of Wight prepares to split commissioner and provider functions
STRUCTURE: The purchaser-provider split is set to be implemented on the Isle of Wight after the secretary of state approved plans to break up the existing primary care trust.
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NewsLansley condemns expensive GP phone calls
Patients should not be charged premium phone call rates to make an appointment with their GP, health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
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NewsDoctor employed by trusts despite 'mercy killing' conviction
A foreign doctor convicted of the “mercy killing” of a patient in Spain later got a job with police in the UK, medical watchdogs have heard.
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NewsQuarter of trusts consider negligence scheme exit
Seventy-two NHS trusts have consulted with a private insurance broker over leaving the NHS Litigation Authority for a commercial alternative, it has been claimed.
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NewsNHS and pharmaceutical partnerships being deterred by 'misconceptions'
Opportunities for collaboration between the NHS and pharmaceutical companies are being missed due to “misconceptions” about the industry, guidance exclusively disclosed to HSJ has warned.
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Community hospitals consultation will be more than 12 months overdue
STRUCTURE: A long-awaited public consultation on the future of community hospitals on the Fylde Coast has been put back again, until “at least the summer” - a year after it was due to take place.
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Leicester study leads to anti heart disease drive for women
CLINICAL: Women diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a study by University Hospitals of Leicester Trust and Leicester University.
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NewsPenalise poor performers 'robustly', Flory demands
The NHS’s deputy chief executive has used his latest quarterly report to direct the health service to “robustly bear down” on “persistent poor performer” organisations.
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NewsCSSs to collaborate on national support functions
Commissioning support services are likely to be closely involved in the four national scale commissioning support functions, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRegulator's dual role still unclear
Monitor is still unclear about how it can justify its additional powers over foundation trusts once it becomes healthcare sectorregulator, its executive chair has told HSJ.
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SHIP CSS to take more than 350 staff from PCT cluster
WORKFORCE: Commissioning Support South, the commissioning support organisation for the Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth cluster, is expected to inherit 363 staff members from primary care trusts.
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Ealing could save 40 per cent on its nursing bill, report says
WORKFORCE: The west London acute trust could save £13m on its £34m nursing cost if it matched the most efficient trusts in its class, an NHS London report said.
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Gateshead announces new public health director
WORKFORCE: Carole Wood has been appointed as the new director of public health for Gateshead and will take over when the current postholder, Alyson Learmonth, retires in May.
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NewsResponse to PiP scare was 'inadequate', say MPs
Action by the government and a health regulator to communicate with women over the PiP breast implants scandal was “inadequate”, MPs have said.
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NewsBurnham attacks NHS reform risks
The government has “knowingly taken major risks with the National Health Service” and “ignored warnings from civil servants” in pushing through its controversial health reforms, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has claimed.