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New undergraduate medical course in Lancs
Two Lancashire acute trusts are partnering with the University of Central Lancashire to support a new self-funded undergraduate medical degree programme.
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NewsHSJ Live 15.01.14 NHS called on to make greater effort to engage staff in order to improve performance
The latest senior appointments at the care regulator, plus the the rest of the day’s news and comment
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NewsCQC uncovers bullying perception at Barts
Concerns over bullying and accident and emergency department performance have emerged in the latest Care Quality Commission inspection reports, covering four trusts.
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NewsFT boards to be independently reviewed every three years
Monitor has detailed how it expects foundation trusts to arrange external reviews of their board’s effectiveness every three years.
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NewsMinister backs commissioning-only care role for councils
Care services minister Norman Lamb has voiced his support for a proposal to prevent councils from directly providing adult care services.
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NewsA&E locum costs soar 60pc in three years
The cost of paying temporary doctors to work at accident and emergency units in England increased by 60 per cent in three years as hospitals struggle to find permanent staff.
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Colchester improvement director appointed
WORKFORCE: Mark Davies has been appointed improvement director at Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust.
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NewsCancer diagnoses figures disclosed
Almost a third of a million people in the UK are diagnosed with cancer every year, figures show.
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NewsHSJ Live 14.01.14 Monitor recommends external review every three years for FTs
Monitor recommends that foundation trusts are externally reviewed every three years, along with the rest of the day’s news and comment.
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NewsExclusive: Female consultants face awards 'discrimination'
A significant decline in the proportion of clinical excellence awards being awarded to women has led to claims that female consultants are falling victim to discrimination, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Conservative peer appointed Monitor's interim chair
The government has appointed Conservative peer and former minister Baroness Hanham as the interim chair of health sector regulator Monitor.
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HSJ Local
Ambulance delays after IT blackout
Ambulance callouts were delayed on Christmas Day when London Ambulance Service Trust experienced an IT failure that forced staff to use pen and paper to record 999 calls.
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Private firm withdraws George Eliot bid
COMMERCIAL: George Eliot Hospital Trust has confirmed that one of the private firms shortlisted to take it over has pulled out of the bidding process.
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NewsNHS data move opt-out 'damaging'
It would be “enormously damaging” if patients decided to opt out of the new NHS data mining scheme, leading medical charities have warned.
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NewsClinicians 'must say sorry for errors', says Hunt
Doctors and nurses should be honest when things go wrong and “say sorry” to patients, according to the health secretary.
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NewsCQC promotes private health firm
NHS hospital inspectors are being signposted towards private healthcare by their employers, it has emerged.
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HSJ Local
Trust receives £10m loan after not getting 'winter pressures' funding
FINANCE: A hospital trust has received a £10m loan from the Department of Health after failing to get funding to tackle winter pressures.
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NewsHSJ Live 13.01.14 Public think frontline staff have little say in how NHS is run
A survey find the public place the most trust in NHS frontline staff, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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News'Weaknesses' in decisions to drop cases against doctors
Weaknesses have been found in the General Medical Council’s handling of one in five of the fitness to practise cases that it closed early without doctors facing a disciplinary panel, HSJ can reveal.
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Trust admits it wrongly reported same sex compliance
PERFORMANCE: Dorset Healthcare University Foundation Trust has notified regulators that it has been failing standards on same sex accommodation for more than two years, despite reporting compliance.