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NewsHSJ launches hospital transformation microsite
HSJ has launched a new microsite and weekly email newsletter focusing on hospital transformation.
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HSJ LocalPoole seeks to fill executive vacancies after merger blocked
WORKFORCE: Poole Hospitals Foundation Trust chief executive Chris Bown has announced he will leave the trust next year, after its merger plans were blocked.
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NewsPatients go blind 'due to delays'
People are going blind due to delays in getting appointments and treatment at NHS eye clinics, the Royal National Institute of Blind People has warned.
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LeaderA welcome step towards parity among the sexes
Action sparked by HSJ’s women’s issue this summer
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HSJ Local
Second bidder drops out of £800m contract
A second bidder has dropped out the bidding process for an £800m older services people services contract being tendered by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group.
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NewsWatch live: balancing clinical efficacy of treatments with quality of life
Join this free HSJ webinar on 27 November
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South Devon Healthcare creates public health video services
PERFORMANCE: Self-help videos could soon be prescribed to patients by GPs as part of a joint-venture between the patient-controlled online medical records system, Patients Know Best, and Hiblio TV.
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NewsIntegration fund could lead to 'yet more structural change'
The government’s allocation of £3.8bn for integration across the NHS and social care “will be used to fund yet more structural change”, and “cannot succeed without behaviour change of all actors in the system”, according to a report.
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C difficile vaccine to be trialled at Pennine Acute Trust
PERFORMANCE: Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust is taking part of a trial seeking to develop a vaccine to prevent the C Difficile infection in hospitals
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NewsHSJ Live 14.11.13: £2bn switched from local deals to payment by results, HSJ finds
Investigation reveals that the move back is motivated by need to back financially troubled trusts
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NewsGovernment urged to drop barring scheme
A group set up by the government has urged ministers to consider dropping its plan to set up a barring scheme for NHS managers guilty of misconduct, HSJ has learned.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Ministers to order staffing reviews in response to Francis
Hospital boards will be ordered to review and publish nurse staffing levels at least twice a year as part of the government’s full response to the Francis report, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsKeogh reveals plan to redesignate emergency services
Hospital emergency departments are set to be reclassified, with as few as 40 of them offering a higher level of staffing and expertise, NHS England has revealed.
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NewsDuty of candour plans 'legitimise cover ups'
Plans to limit a statutory duty of candour on organisations to incidents of death or severe harm will “legitimise cover-ups”, patient groups have warned.
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NewsIntermediate care provision 'stuck', DH director admits
Intermediate care is under pressure with demand outstripping capacity, according to a national audit by a group of leading healthcare organisations.
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LeaderService leaders face a scrap to identify a coherent vision
The NHS is far from free of political interference
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NewsJones overturns neonatal care move
Wales’s first minister has overturned a decision to transfer some specialist neonatal care in north Wales across the border to England.
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HSJ Local
Kernow CCG at risk of deficit
FINANCE: Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group has warned it is at risk of failing to break even in 2013-14.
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HSJ Local
District nurses' working changes meet opposition
Gloucestershire Care Services Trust has defended proposals to change the way its district nurses work amid concerns from the Royal College of Nursing and local campaigners.
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East Leicestershire and Rutland offers bullying training
NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland clinical commissioning group has set aside funding to deliver bullying and harassment training for its staff.