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NewsHundreds of patients at risk amid major delays to IV feed supplies
Hundreds of patients, including children, dependent on intravenous nutrition to keep them alive are experiencing delays in vital deliveries, because of restrictions placed on the manufacturer by the medical devices regulator.
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NewsRevealed: Nearly half of CCGs planning mergers for 2020
Nearly half of clinical commissioning groups are proposing to merge next year in what would be the biggest cull of NHS organisations for more than a decade, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsMapped: Sweeping CCG mergers planned for next year
HSJ’s map shows the 86 clinical commissioning groups proposing mergers in 2020, in what looks set to be the largest NHS consolidation for more than a decade.
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NHS-owned staffing agency appoints new chief exec
NHS Professionals has appointed a new chief executive.
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NewsReal terms budget cut for community pharmacy
Funding for community pharmacy will be cut by 9 per cent in real terms under a new deal in which the sector will be expected to provide more clinical services.
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NewsConsultants get pay rise amid ‘serious concerns’ for morale
Consultants are set to receive a 2.5 per cent backdated pay rise amid “serious concerns” for workforce morale.
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NewsHEE scraps ‘essential’ nursing review
A much-anticipated review of community nursing has been scrapped after internal complaints were raised by members of the advisory panel.
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HSJ LocalA&E gets worse for Devo Manc
Greater Manchester’s performance against the headline accident and emergency standard has continued to deteriorate, despite a formal intervention from regulators earlier this year.
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NewsControversial ‘friends and family’ question dropped
NHS providers will no longer be required to ask patients whether they would recommend their service to “friends and family”, and rules on when they must ask mandatory experience questions will be lifted, NHS England has decided.
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NewsFAST inventor wins innovation role
A consultant stroke physician who developed the well-known face arm speech test – or FAST – has been elected vice chair of the Academic Health Science Network.
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NewsNHS hires new deputy chief people officer
NHS England and NHS Improvement have appointed a former chief nurse as deputy chief people officer, it has been announced.
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News‘Couch to 5k’ among 10 apps pulled from NHS app library
Couch to 5k is among 10 apps which have been removed from the NHS’ digital library after failing to go through data protection checks.
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NewsThree-quarters of money from NHS land sales went into revenue
Less than a quarter of the money raised from NHS property sales last year went back into the capital budget for reinvestment in the estate, according to provider accounts.
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NewsPCNs at risk from ‘rough and ready’ legal paperwork
Many of the legal documents that underpin the agreements uniting GPs in the NHS’ flagship primary care scheme may be “rough and ready” and need redrafting, HSJ has learned.
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NewsSocial enterprise’s service lands trust in trouble with regulators
A social enterprise’s poorly-performing type 3 service is weighing down an acute trust’s overall A&E performance – and getting it into trouble with its regulators.
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HSJ LocalStruggling CCG forced to reduce services cuts programme
One of the NHS’ largest commissioning groups has radically reduced a package of community service cuts following pushback from providers and clinicians.
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Three CCGs removed from special measures
Three clinical commissioning groups in north east London is no longer in financial special measures, it was announced today.
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NewsFive CCGs plan merger to cut running costs
Five clinical commissioning groups in the north east of England are considering mergers to cut running costs, HSJ has learned.
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News‘Defensive’ trust removed patient criticism from royal college report
A world-famous hospital withheld information from regulators over a scandal in which children were needlessly given potentially dangerous drugs and invasive tests, it can be revealed.
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NewsTrust chair perplexed by CQC leadership criticism
The chair of an acute trust has been left feeling puzzled and questioning inspectors’ assessments after the Care Quality Commission criticised its leadership model.