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HSJ LocalLegal challenge issued over £16m service tender
COMMERCIAL: A clinical commissioning group is facing a legal challenge over the procurement of £16.6m in services using the innovative prime contractor model.
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NewsConsultation launched on CSU redundancies
Up to 300 commissioning support unit staff are facing redundancy under a job cuts programme coordinated by NHS England.
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NewsHeart guidance 'could save lives'
Coroners could help save the lives of hundreds of people by telling bereaved family members to get themselves screened for inherited heart conditions, a charity has said.
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NewsHSJ Live 21.01.2014 Legal challenge issued over £16m service tender
CCG faces legal challenge over a procurement using ‘prime contractor’ model, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment.
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NewsCCG backs down in patient involvement procurement row
A clinical commissioning group leading one of the most high profile procurements in the NHS has agreed to publish commercially sensitive documents following a threat of legal action.
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NewsGovernance concerns over care.data project
NHS data chiefs have raised “concerns in respect to the governance arrangements” of the pioneering care.data project, according to papers published last week.
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NewsClegg: commissioners must step up to plate on mental health
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has urged NHS commissioners to “step up to the plate” on helping the government achieve parity of esteem for mental health.
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HSJ Local
Liverpool funds Citizens Advice advisers in GP practices
PERFORMANCE: Every GP practice in Liverpool is to have access to dedicated Citizens Advice advisers to whom patients with non-medical problems can be refered.
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NewsBoards told to curb use of independent providers
Scottish health boards have been told to clamp down on their use of the private sector for treating NHS patients.
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NewsHealth database sparks privacy fears
Debate has reignited about the sale of patient records containing information on mental health conditions, diseases like cancer and habits such as drinking or smoking being sold to organisations such as drug and insurance companies.
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HSJ Local
Delays in over performance payments pose 'significant risk' to trust
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust is reporting a “significant risk” to its short term cash flow, partly due to delays in over performance payments.
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HSJ Local
South Warwickshire appoints hotel services contractor
COMMERCIAL: South Warwickshire Foundation Trust has appointed Amey as its hotel services provider, the trust has announced.
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HSJ Local
Trust's £2.5m overspend on staff pay bill
Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust has spent almost £2.5m more than budgeted on staff pay.
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HSJ Local
South Staffordshire and Shropshire in surplus
Finance: South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is in surplus, recent board papers show.
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NewsHSJ Live 20.01.2014 Clegg: commissioners must step up to plate on mental health
The deputy prime minister launches a new national mental health action plan, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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NewsExclusive: Clegg to launch mental health action plan
Nick Clegg is next week expected to launch a national mental health action plan, advocating a further push towards “parity of esteem” between the sector and the rest of healthcare, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsMicromanagement won’t deliver value says business guru
Interview: Michael Porter on his “strategy that will fix healthcare”
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NewsDr Foster founder joins CQC
The Care Quality Commission has appointed one of the founders of health informatics firm Dr Foster Intelligence to advise on how the regulator uses data to monitor health and social care providers.
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NewsMinister calls for OFT's merger role to be 'scrapped'
Care services minister Norman Lamb has said he wants the Office of Fair Trading’s role in competition in the NHS to be “scrapped”, and expressed concern over the costs and delays caused by the regulator’s intervention in an attempted foundation trust merger.
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NewsTameside's Lorenzo difficulties continue
The first trust to accept a sweetener payment to switch to the Lorenzo electronic patient record system has admitted it continues to face a series of risks to patient safety and performance arising from its implementation.