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NHS Wales chief takes top job at East Midlands trust
The chief executive of NHS Wales has been appointed to run Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust.
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CQC identifies further failings at Heatherwood and Wexham Park
The Care Quality Commission has told Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals Foundation Trust to make urgent improvements, after an inspection found it was more focused on “responding to… targets” than “ensuring that overall patient experiences were positive”.
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NewsMP: Let communities run hospitals
“Communities” must be given the chance to own and run smaller hospitals and help push forward the changes the NHS needs to succeed, a Conservative MP has said.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Board level culture undermines paperless ambition
Senior managers’ lack of knowledge about the clinical and cost benefits of improved IT systems is hindering progress towards the health secretary’s ambition for a paperless NHS, an exclusive HSJ survey suggests.
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NewsHSJ Live 08.01.14 Top health consultancy is taken over
Influential UK health and social care consultancy acquired by international health giant, and the rest of the day’s news and comment.
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NewsFinnamore bought by health giant
The health and social care consultancy Finnamore has been bought by the firm GE Healthcare, one of the world’s largest health technology companies.
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Colchester acting chief executive resigns
WORKFORCE: The acting chief executive of Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust, under investigation by police over allegations of cancer data manipulation, has announced her resignation.
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Royal Devon seeks solution to poor stroke performance
STRUCTURE: Stroke care in the Exeter area may need to be restructured in order to meet key performance targets, board papers reveal.
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NewsFive hundred staff face redundancy from NHS Direct
Hundreds of members of staff at a failed provider to the troubled NHS 111 helpline have been told they face losing their jobs.
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NewsGovernment offers £10m boost for maternity units
Hospitals are to be given millions of pounds to help spruce up their maternity wards, the Department of Health has announced.
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Hospital worker 'ashamed' of tweets
A hospital worker has spoken of how he feels “embarrassed and ashamed” over a series of tweets he posted, including a comment that he was going to use pubic hair shaved from a patient to create the sideburns sported by Olympic cycling champion Sir Bradley Wiggins.
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NewsRepeat patients add to A&E pressure
A small group of NHS patients are adding to pressures on accident and emergency departments by going to casualty dozens of times a year, according to an investigation by the BBC.
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Monitor kicks off independent provider licencing process
Monitor is now accepting applications for licences from the independent sector, the regulator has announced.
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NewsNigel Edwards to head Nuffield Trust
The Nuffield Trust has announced that Nigel Edwards will take on the role of chief executive from April.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Circle mulls bid to partner Peterborough with Hinchingbrooke
Private provider Circle could table a rescue bid for debt-stricken Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals Foundation Trust involving partnering it with nearby Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust, HSJ has been told.
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NewsHSJ Live 07.01.14 Colchester acting chief exec resigns
Reaction to the resignation of the acting chief executive of Colchester University Foundation Trust - the hospital under investigation by police over allegations of cancer data manipulation.
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NewsMental health nurses to be based in police centres
Mental health nurses are to be based at some of England’s police stations and courts as part of a new pilot scheme.
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Calderdale and Huddersfield misses target for TIA patients
PERFORMANCE: Only 51 per cent of transient ischemic attack patients with high risk of stroke were treated within 24 hours at Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust in October, falling below the 60 per cent target.
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East Riding of Yorkshire introduces C diff card
PERFORMANCE: East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group has introduced a voluntary C difficile card, which will be issued to patients who test positive for the bacteria at hospital or their GP surgery.
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Shropshire CCG agrees formal support from area team
PERFORMANCE: Shropshire CCG is receiving formal support from its area team because of failures to commission services that comply with the 18 week referral to treatment requirement, recent board minutes state.