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NewsHSJ Live: 24.10.13: MPs do not endorse Dodd for new Monitor chair
Dominic Dodd not the right person to handle transition, says health committee
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NewsAnalysis: Merging trusts caught in 'catch-22'
Monitor has moved to address concerns that competition rules are thwarting much needed service reconfiguration. It follows warnings that clashing regulations are leaving trusts trying to merge in a “catch-22” situation.
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Medway told to improve maternity service
Medway Foundation Trust has been warned by the Care Quality Commission that it must make urgent improvements to maternity and midwifery services at Medway Maritime Hospital.
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NewsFirst nurse appointed to national clinical director role
A nurse and hospital chief executive has been appointed national clinical director for rural and remote care by NHS England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh.
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NewsCQC seeks responsibility for patient safety
The Care Quality Commission would like to take over responsibility for patient safety in the health service, despite NHS England gaining responsibility for it as recently as April, it emerged yesterday.
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HSJ LocalMid Staffs asks neighbour for help to sustain A&E
WORKFORCE: Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has been forced to draft in two consultants from a neighbouring trust to maintain a safe service in its emergency department.
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NewsAudit urged for NHS property body as chair resigns
A Conservative MP has demanded a full audit of the organisation that runs the NHS property service after revealing it transferred funds for capital projects into day to day revenue budgets.
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NewsHSJ Live: 23.10.13: The first reaction to Simon Stevens' appointment
Ruth Carnall, Clare Gerada, Michael Dixon and Charles Alessi among the first to welcome ex-Blair advisor to Britain’s top health post
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News'Significant difference in opinion' remains over data access
Plans to create “safe havens” where patient identifiable data is processed and pseudonymised for use by bodies across the health service could be dropped, it emerged this week.
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Guy's and St Thomas' fails to hit cancer target
PERFORMANCE Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust has experienced further difficulty meeting a key government cancer waiting time target.
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Trust issues diktat over £40,000 daily overspend
FINANCE: The board of Plymouth Hospitals Trust has banned all non-essential spending and has ordered that all staff appointments are signed off by the director of finance in a bid to tackle a financial crisis.
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NewsHospital takes legal advice over traveller camp
Health chiefs are taking legal advice to eject dozens of French travellers who infuriated front line NHS workers by setting up an encampment in a hospital car park.
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NewsPeers back move to extend special administrator power
Peers have backed a move to make it easier for the neighbours of failing providers to be ordered to reconfigure services in order to ensure local health economies are viable.
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NewsHSJ Live: 22.10.13: Plymouth bans all non-essential spending
All staff appointments must be signed off by finance director
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CSC disputes DH announcement on deal to end national IT programme
The Department of Health and healthcare IT company CSC have published contradictory statements about a deal designed to finalise contractual obligations which date back to the national programme for IT.
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NewsNHS 'could be hit by immigration surcharge'
The NHS could end up having to foot the bill for an immigration surcharge imposed on foreign visitors to limit their impact on the NHS when it recruits staff from overseas, it has emerged.
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News'Francis effect' leads to thousands more nursing posts
Hospitals are trying to increase the number of nurses and healthcare assistants working on their wards in a trend being attributed to a growing focus on patient safety in the wake of the Francis report.
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Updated: administrators get extra time at Mid Staffs
The trust special administrators overseeing proposals to downgrade Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have been given extra time to prepare their final report and to agree on where funding for the proposals will come from.
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Community services trust's survival bid dealt blow
Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust’s attempt to avoid abolition has been dealt a blow after the consortium it joined to bid for a £800m older people’s services contract withdrew from the process.