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NewsTeaching trust hires new digital chief
A hospital trust has appointed a new tech chief, months after his predecessor slammed the “excruciating” state of NHS IT as he stepped down from the role.
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NewsRevealed: Mass use of credit check firm to find NHS patients to charge
An NHS trust is routinely sharing patients’ identities with a major credit check firm to find overseas visitors who can be charged, and officials have sought to extend the scheme nationally, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsAmbulance trust faces multimillion pound bill for no-deal Brexit
An ambulance trust is expecting a multimillion pound hit to its bottom line if the UK crashes out of the European Union without a deal next month.
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NewsDoctors face new laws on reporting deaths to coroners
New laws will come into effect tomorrow requiring doctors to report deaths to a coroner for the first time in a bid to modernise the death reporting process in England and Wales.
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NewsFull maternity services at hospital axed for ‘foreseeable future’
Commissioners have extended the temporary closure of an obstetrics unit for the “foreseeable future” after difficulties staffing it.
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NewsNew burdens could wipe out public health grant uplift
New significant public health burdens could be imposed on councils, wiping out a promised real-terms increase in the public health grant next year.
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NewsMapped: The hospital builds in PM’s pledge
The trusts which will benefit from a share of £2.7bn to rebuild hospitals, or £100m to develop business cases for future schemes, announced by the prime minister today.
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NewsGovernment promises £3bn hospital building programme
The government has announced a £3bn capital investment plan to rebuild hospitals and replace diagnostic equipment.
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HSJ LocalCCGs seek single exec after letter from regional director
The five mid and south Essex clinical commissioning groups have set out plans for a single accountable officer and executive team by April 2020.
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NewsGovernment earmarks £200m capital for diagnostic equipment
The government has brought forward a spending announcement, promising an extra £200m to improve the cancer scanning and diagnostic capacity of the NHS over the next 18 months.
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HSJ LocalTrust’s CQC visit drawn out ‘as inspectors not available’
A London hospital trust has said its Care Quality Commission inspection has been drawn out “due to availability of inspectors” – though the regulator insists it is fully staffed.
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NewsIndependent review ordered at FT after claims of patient safety concerns
An independent review has been ordered into a hospital trust’s urology unit after patient safety concerns were put to an employment tribunal.
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News‘Outstanding’ CCG’s first chair announces retirement
The first clinical chair of the newly formed Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group is to retire from his post next year.
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NewsCommunity hospital to reopen after staff shortages forced it to shut
An Oxfordshire community hospital is to reopen after it was forced to shut at the beginning of the summer due to major nursing shortages.
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NewsTrust approves ‘rapid growth’ plan for overseas work
A leading mental health trust is creating a joint venture organisation to develop its commercial work, including private care in the Middle East and potentially China.
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NewsRevealed: Government preparing for nurse funding U-turn
The government is gearing up to announce reforms of financial support for NHS student nurses – likely to include a major reversal in funding policy – to boost applications.
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NewsRegulators tell trusts to ‘learn lessons’ from deaths in 2008 and 2012
NHS regulators have warned trusts to heed the learnings of an ombudsman report into the deaths of two patients, ahead of their own review into patient safety failings.
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NewsNHS England sets playing field for digital GP providers
Digital-first GP providers will have to set up a clinic in most localities where they have patients, and will be denied entry to areas which already have enough doctors, under new rules adopted by NHS England.
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HSJ LocalLong-serving chief executive to retire
The chief executive officer of Royal United Hospitals Bath Foundation Trust is to retire.
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NewsHealth and care world backs far-reaching NHS legislation
Patient, staff and NHS groups have joined with NHS England to ask government to put forward an “NHS integrated care bill”, which would scrap big chunks of the last major piece of health legislation.