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NewsCCGs consider swapping GPs to avoid conflict of interest
Clinical commissioning groups are considering swapping GPs with their neighbouring groups to safeguard against potential conflicts of interest in commissioning primary care.
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HSJ LocalLiverpool trust stops delivering prison health service early
COMMERCIAL: Liverpool Community Health Trust has stopped delivering health services at a prison, following a Care Quality Commission inspection which found the trust was not meeting quality and safety standards.
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HSJ LocalSouth West trust sees increase in hospital acquired pressure sores
PERFORMANCE: South Devon Healthcare Trust recorded 172 hospital acquired pressure sores in grades 1 and 2 in the 12 months through to September.
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News'No evidence' to justify local midwifery regulation
Local regulation of midwives should be scrapped according to a report by the King’s Fund which has found “no evidence” to justify its existence.
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HSJ LocalColchester FT appoints new chair
WORKFORCE: Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust has appointed a new chair.
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HSJ LocalLambeth fails to reach standards for three out of seven Quality Premium measures
PERFORMANCE: NHS Lambeth CCG has reported that it has not achieved 2013-14 Quality Premium measures relating to cutting avoidable emergency admissions, reducing the number of years of life lost through amenable mortality and preventing healthcare acquired infections.
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West Lancashire CCG considers review of minor surgery
STRUCTURE: NHS West Lancashire may conduct a detailed review of minor surgery and orthopaedic services over the next six months, as part of an analysis of how services under its remit will be run in future.
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NewsHSJ Live 23.01.2015: Breaking - Two CSUs fail to make NHS England framework
Two commissioning support units have not made it onto NHS England’s procurement framework – placing their long term future in doubt
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HSJ LocalTavistock and Portman surplus higher than planned
FINANCE: The Tavistock and Portman Trust has announced a surplus of £1.66m for the first nine months of the financial year, £1.33m higher than its planned surplus for the year to date.
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NewsUpdated: Third of CCGs apply for full co-commissioning powers over GP members
Around a third of clinical commissioning groups are bidding to take over responsibility for performance management and budgets of their member GP practices from April, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: Shelford Group medical directors rail at tariff plans
Medical directors from England’s 10 biggest teaching hospitals have written to their counterparts at NHS England and Monitor to warn that controversial new tariff plans will damage patient care and lengthen waiting times.
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NewsHSJ Live 22.01.2015: £240m technology fund raided to prop up A&E, sources say
The government has raided a £240m NHS technology fund to bolster financial support for hospitals struggling with accident and emergency demand this winter, senior sources have told HSJ, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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News£240m technology fund raided to prop up A&E, sources say
The government has raided a £240m NHS technology fund to bolster financial support for hospitals struggling with accident and emergency demand this winter, senior sources have told HSJ.
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NewsCare.data suffers new set back
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has pledged to contact a potentially large number of patients who objected to the Care.data programme, after it emerged that their opt-outs could unintentionally exclude them from NHS services such as bowel screening.
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HSJ LocalHeart of England chief executive secondment 'in line' with Dalton review
STRUCTURE: The chief executive being seconded to turn around Heart of England Foundation Trust has said his appointment is an example of the recommendations of the Dalton review into the provider sector being put into practice.
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NewsStevens acknowledges risks to forward view's integration reform
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has acknowledged that vertical integration, one of the reform options outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View, carries the risks of supply induced demand and unresponsive ‘like it or lump it’ care.
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NewsTrusts forced to look overseas to plug paramedic gaps
Ambulance services across England are looking overseas to fill gaps in their paramedic workforce as trusts grapple with vacancy rates as high as 25 per cent, HSJ research has found.
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HSJ LocalNene CCG chief to step down
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Nene Clinical Commissioning Group is to step down from his role to help set up an organisation spreading “high impact” ideas across the health sector
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Exclusive map: CCGs' co-commissioning decisions
HSJ’s exclusive map showing which CCGs have applied to co-commission primary care, and at which level.
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HSJ LocalHuge rebuilding project begins at Chase Farm
STRUCTURE: Work has begun at Chase Farm Hospital on a large scale demolition project, which will include the creation of a new urgent treatment centre and paediatric emergency department.