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NewsReport into C diff deaths at hospital delayed
The results of an inquiry into a hospital bug outbreak that claimed 18 lives will be delayed by more than a year.
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NewsGP appointment frustrations revealed
Hundreds of thousands of people cannot book GP appointments because none are available, or struggle to get through to their surgery on the phone, according to a new survey.
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Guy's and St Thomas's A and E under pressure
PERFORMANCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust went on to “red status” for the first time ever for emergency admissions in January.
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Agency spend rises at Guy's and St Thomas'
WORKFORCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is hiring 250 nurses after noting a “worrying” increasing dependency on temporary staff.
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Former Walsall PCT boss appointed to Birmingham cluster role
WORKFORCE: NHS Walsall’s former chief executive has been appointed to the top role at the Birmingham primary care trust cluster.
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Coventry PCT boss appointed to cluster role
WORKFORCE: NHS Coventry’s chief executive has been appointed to the top role in the cluster
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NewsDozens of consortia match PCT area
Nearly half of primary care trusts are expecting a single commissioning consortium to span the same geographical area that they currently cover.
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Pace of consortia handovers varying widely
A quarter of primary care trusts are racing ahead to hand over commissioning budgets while a third have no clear plans to “let go”.
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Community nurses aligned with GP practices
STRUCTURE: A major re-organisation of community nursing in East Kent has seen district nursing teams aligned with GP practices.
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NewsFT severance payouts to come under scrutiny
The NHS chief executive has promised MPs to do all he can to provide details of severance payouts made by foundation trusts.
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NewsDon't simply cut posts to deliver QIPP savings, Easton warns trusts
The Department of Health will be “increasingly discriminating” between trusts that find genuine efficiencies and those that simply cut posts, national director for improvement Jim Easton has warned.
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NewsDH ignored advice to cut children's acute top-ups
A report on the true cost of specialised care has provided fresh evidence that the government bowed to political pressure not to reduce funding to children’s acute services.
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NewsHealth Bill dissent 'destabilising' for NHS - Alliance chief
Doubt has been cast on the government’s NHS reform drive after Liberal Democrat dissent forced health secretary Andrew Lansley to admit further changes could be made to the plans.
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NewsManagers back calls for top earners to pay more towards pensions
The vast majority of managers responding to a snap online HSJ survey think higher earners should pay more towards their NHS pensions.
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NewsMPs told of budget topslicing 'risk'
Providers could face financial difficulties if commissioning consortia decide to topslice their budgets to create risk pools, the Commons health committee has heard.
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NewsLabour tables amendments to planned Monitor role
Labour has put forward amendments to the Health Bill to remove Monitor’s planned powers as an enforcer of competition law.
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NewsPerformance linked pay for managers labelled a 'distraction'
Linking the stay of senior staff to national objectives would be an “unhelpful distraction”, according to the NHS managers’ union.
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LeaderPerformance bonuses: a fair swap for public service pension reform?
“There is a much stronger case for linking pay to performance at the senior levels of public organisations, as opposed to the rest of the workforce”.
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Leader2013 has already arrived for some regions
It is an iron rule of NHS reform that development is both geographically patchy and concentrated in certain areas - look at the progress made in tackling heart disease compared with the record on sexual health, or how performance in the South West has consistently outstripped other regions.
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NewsDH struggling to achieve consultant choice within deadline
Patients’ ability to choose between named consultant led teams for elective hospital care looks unlikely to be significantly extended by the government’s deadline in April.