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NewsExclusive: Hospitals substitute nurses as staffing crisis worsens
The number of hospitals falling short of their planned nurse staffing by 10 per cent or more has almost tripled over five years, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
Stafford failed my mother, but my father received exemplary care
Having lost her mother 13 years ago in the Mid Staffs disaster, Deb Hazeldine recounts the exemplary end-of-life care her father received recently at the University Hospitals of North Midlands.
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Comment
The Bedpan: ‘I should have challenged DH advice on Mid Staffs’
This week: Andy Burnham , mayor of Greater Manchester
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What about the patient?: Jessie Cunnett
This week: Jessie Cunnett, head of public support, Nursing and Midwifery Council
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Hospital fined for 13 breaches of duty of candour rules
A hospital trust has been fined a total of £16,250 for 13 separate breaches of the NHS statutory duty of candour, the Care Quality Commission has said.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: An inpatient care crisis
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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New rule to stop NHS directors ‘revolving door’
New rules will mandate trusts to supply references when NHS directors are given a new job, in a bid to stop the so-called “revolving door” for those who have failed, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
When doctors must report deaths to coroners
Josiah Kirpalani on shaping the future relationship between medical examiners and senior coroners
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Doctors face new laws on reporting deaths to coroners
New laws will come into effect tomorrow requiring doctors to report deaths to a coroner for the first time in a bid to modernise the death reporting process in England and Wales.
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Andrew Dillon to end his 20 year reign at NICE
Sir Andrew Dillon will step down as the chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in March 2020 after more than 20 years in the role.
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CQC reveals 'alarming' new route to prosecute directors
Individual NHS trust directors could personally face prosecution for breaches of the Care Quality Commission’s fundamental standards, it has emerged.
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Top CEO says government sending 'wrong signal' on safety
Sir David Dalton has urged health and social care secretary Matt Hancock to view patient safety as a “firm priority” for the NHS, warning progress made since the Mid Staffs scandal could quickly disappear.
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Exclusive: Government drops key safe staffing measure
Publication of nurse staffing levels at each hospital in England – introduced after the Francis Inquiry to boost safety – has been quietly dropped, HSJ can reveal.
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Hopson warns NHSI against 'inappropriate' regulation of managers
NHS Providers has called for Dido Harding to demonstrate she is “genuinely prepared to consider the evidence” on managers’ regulation, while its CEO has warned directors feel the proposals from Tom Kark QC are “inappropriate”.
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'Revolving doors' for failed managers must be stopped
Ministers should take action to prevent managers guilty of serious misconduct from “rattling around the system”, the leading barrister who oversaw a recent review of the NHS’s fit and proper person test has told HSJ .
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Francis admits fit and proper person test has failed
The Mid Staffordshire Public Inquiry chair has said he believes it is time for a professional regulator to oversee senior NHS managers after admitting his fit and proper person test was “not fit for purpose”.
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Second NHS trust prosecuted for safe care failings
A second NHS trust is being prosecuted by the Care Quality Commission over the death of a patient under fundamental standards brought in after the Mid Staffordshire care scandal.
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Hunt heads to Middle East for global push on patient safety
Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt is leading a call for global action on patient safety at an international summit in the Middle East today.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Which is the justice and which the thief?
To understand the NHS, we need to understand the issue of money and power, says Andy Cowper
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Hancock delays decision on new NHS management regulator
The government has delayed making a decision on whether to introduce a regulator for NHS managers, after a review recommended those guilty of misconduct should be barred from sitting on NHS boards.
