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NewsOFT to rule on key pathology mergers as another project collapses
Fresh evidence has emerged of the impact competition probes are having on plans to reconfigure services after Office of Fair Trading investigations were cited as barriers to two major pathology reorganisations.
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NewsCare.data will ‘reduce flow of confidential data around NHS’
The establishment of a new national patient database will “reduce the flow of patient identifiable data” around the NHS, the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s clinical director said yesterday.
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NewsHSJ Live: 16.10.13 Activity-based funding model was 'wrong'
Head of emergency services review makes criticism in ‘personal capacity’
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NewsNHS staff transferred to private sector will keep pensions
The Treasury has approved plans for workers transferred out of the health service to retain NHS pensions, in a move predicted to make it easier for independent providers to win NHS contracts.
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NewsBogus advert fraudsters are jailed
Five members of a criminal gang which made more than 200 attempts to defraud NHS organisations by demanding payment for adverts in bogus magazines with similar names to real ones – including HSJ – have been jailed.
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NewsCourses leave doctors 'unready for pain'
Effective pain treatment and management is being hampered by a lack of training on the subject, a report suggests.
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NewsCQC considers hidden cameras proposal
The health and social care watchdog in England is considering using hidden cameras to help carry out inspections.
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HSJ LocalCambridgeshire and Peterborough considers £50m musculoskeletal tender
The clinical commissioning group running a £800m tender for older people’s services has revealed it could also tender a musculoskeletal service contract worth more than £50m a year.
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West Suffolk FT faces risk summit after performance failings
West Suffolk Hospitals Foundation Trust’s poor performance against various targets led it to face a risk summit with its NHS England local area team, it has emerged.
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NewsHSJ Live: 15.10.13: Monitor probes South Tees FT treatment delays
Foundation trust has failed to hit 18-week target for three quarters in past year
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Epsom and St Helier spending more on agency medics than last year
WORKFORCE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust is spending more on agency medics than it did last year, board papers reveal.
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Sheffield Hospitals agrees main contracts
FINANCE: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has agreed contracts with its main commissioners, more than a quarter into 2013-14.
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West Middlesex asks for £7.6m bailout this year
FINANCE: West Middlesex University Hospital Trust has asked for a £7.6m bailout this year, board papers reveal.
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Oxfordshire delayed transfers three times the normal rate
PERFORMANCE: Delayed transfers of care are three times the target rate at Oxford University Hospitals Trust.
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Royal Cornwall FT application on hold
STRUCTURE: Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust has withdrawn its request to reactivate its foundation trust application due to board resignations earlier this year.
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NewsFTN urges Hunt to prioritise trust sustainability over competition
The Foundation Trust Network has urged Jeremy Hunt to prioritise trusts’ financial and clinical sustainability over concerns relating to competition.
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NewsLabour moots free social care for all
Labour is considering a radical plan to make social care free at the point of need and funded through taxation, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has said.
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NewsHospital hygiene slammed in reports
Hundreds of hospital kitchens are dirty, have infestations of pests or are stocking out-of-date food, it has been reported.
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NewsPlaid Cymru demands paperless health service
Paper records for hospital patients should be scrapped and replaced with iPads, Plaid Cymru’s health spokeswoman has said.
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NewsHSJ Live: 14.10.2013: Labour thinking of free social care plan
Andy Burnham wants it to be free at the point of need, he tells local authority chief executives