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NewsMinister calls for OFT's merger role to be 'scrapped'
Care services minister Norman Lamb has said he wants the Office of Fair Trading’s role in competition in the NHS to be “scrapped”, and expressed concern over the costs and delays caused by the regulator’s intervention in an attempted foundation trust merger.
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NewsExclusive: Clegg to launch mental health action plan
Nick Clegg is next week expected to launch a national mental health action plan, advocating a further push towards “parity of esteem” between the sector and the rest of healthcare, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsTiny needles make jabs less painful
Scientists have designed smaller needles that take the pain out of injections.
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Doctor 'laughed at' consultant plea
A junior doctor was laughed at by a senior colleague when she suggested a consultant should examine a four-year-old girl who died hours later after suffering a severe infection, an inquest has heard.
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Seclusion rooms used as bedrooms by mental health trust
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust has been issued with a warning notice by the Care Quality Commission after an inspection team found seclusion rooms were being used as bedrooms.
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NewsTameside's Lorenzo difficulties continue
The first trust to accept a sweetener payment to switch to the Lorenzo electronic patient record system has admitted it continues to face a series of risks to patient safety and performance arising from its implementation.
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News17 January issue of HSJ is ready to read on the app
This week’s issue of HSJ magazine is now available to read on our tablet app.Please note: if iPad users have been experiencing difficulties recently with the app we recommend you delete it from the homescreen and download the latest version from www.hsj.co.uk/tablet-appDownload the HSJ app for iPadDownload the HSJ app ...
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NewsHSJ Live 17.01.2014 Dr Foster founder joins CQC
Roger Taylor to advise CQC on data, and the rest of today’s news and comment
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Trust appoints acting chair
The NHS Trust Development Authority last week announced the appointment of an acting chair at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust.
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Private hospital groups forced to sell sites
Two private hospital operators have been told by the Competition Commission that they must sell off nine hospitals between them in order to improve competition in the private healthcare market.
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Peninsula appoints medical director
Peninsula Community Health has appointed a medical director, a new role at the Cornish body.
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New MD at South Warwickshire
WORKFORCE: South Warwickshire Foundation Trust has appointed a new medical director.
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Monitor approves proposal to dissolve Mid Staffs
Monitor has approved the trust special administrators’ proposal for Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust to be dissolved.
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NewsUse of deprivation of liberty safeguards rises
There has been a sharp increase in the number of applications to use deprivation of liberty safeguards for people over the age of 75, it has emerged.
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NewsWoman's fight over partner's sperm
A woman has launched a legal battle for the right to “harvest” her seriously-ill partner’s sperm so that she can have his children.
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NewsNHS contracts 'going to private firms'
Almost 70 per cent of NHS contracts awarded since the government’s controversial reforms became law have been won by private firms, a campaign group has claimed.
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NewsHSJ Live 16.01.14: Monitor approves trust special administrators' proposals for Mid Staffs
The recommendations will now go to the Secretary of State, and the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsExclusive: Consecutive years of productivity growth achieved
There have been two consecutive years of productivity growth in the NHS for the first time since the late 1990s, according to research shared exclusively with HSJ.
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Trust plans to borrow £36m for A&E expansion
University Hospitals of Leicester Trust plans to borrow up to £36m to fund the expansion of Leicester Royal Infirmary’s accident and emergency department.
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New undergraduate medical course in Lancs
Two Lancashire acute trusts are partnering with the University of Central Lancashire to support a new self-funded undergraduate medical degree programme.