All News articles – Page 355
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NewsTeaching trusts 'not putting enough priority' on cutting A&E waits
A number of teaching trusts are “not putting enough priority” on tackling poor emergency waiting times performance, a major review due later this year will indicate.
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NewsGP at Hand digital service given first rating by CQC
The Care Quality Commission has rated GP at Hand “good” in the first inspection of its digital healthcare service.
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NewsDaily Insight: Unhealthy competition
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NewsHospital trust leaves special measures after two years
A Midlands hospital trust has come out of special measures, two years after the Care Quality Commission uncovered “serious” problems with the care provided.
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NewsThe NHS must 'grab hold' of international recruitment
The NHS must take a firmer grip of recruitment efforts in overseas countries, and make sure that trusts and health systems cooperate and adopt best practice, if targets are to be met, according to Health Education England’s director of global engagement Ged Byrne.
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NewsExclusive: Hiring 5,000 extra overseas nurses a year still likely to leave NHS short-staffed
Even “optimal delivery” of international recruitment efforts would leave the NHS short of nearly 19,000 nurses by 2023-24, according to analysis carried out by the Department of Health and Social Care, HSJ has learned.
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NewsJudge green-lights award of CCG's disputed £320m contract
A judge has ruled a clinical commissioning group can award a £320m contract to its local acute trust despite an ongoing dispute from a large private provider.
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NewsSir David Nicholson to chair STP
Sir David Nicholson has been appointed the chair of a West Midlands sustainability and transformation partnership, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsStevens: NHS must act to prevent 'hollowing out' of DGHs
The NHS must rethink the district general hospital model to counter the risk of the health service deserting the “at-risk communities” many serve, Simon Stevens has warned.
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NewsDaily Insight: What’s in a name?
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NewsCapita blunder hits 130,000 patient records
Tens of thousands of patient records have been wrongly archived instead of being sent to GPs when patients registered with their practice, it emerged today.
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NewsOnline GP service suspends appointments for children
An online GP consultation service has suspended all appointments for under-18s.
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NewsDaily Insight: We interrupt this program
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NewsTragic death of 19-year-old 'inextricably linked' to four other fatalities
A senior coroner is investigating whether the deaths of five patients with eating disorders in Cambridgeshire are connected by systemic care failings, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsHunt announces £70m fund to improve global patient safety
Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has called for further global action on patient safety, and revealed the UK will give £70m to improve standards overseas.
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NewsCommunity hospital to close in face of staff shortages
A community hospital in Oxford will close temporarily at the end of the month because of major nursing shortages.
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NewsDoctors, but not nurses, get cash to help 'power napping'
The government will invest almost £10m to improve sleeping facilities for doctors at NHS hospitals amid growing awareness of the impact of fatigue on patient safety.
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NewsTrusts bid to take on CCG budgets
Three London trusts are in talks with clinical commissioning groups to take on responsibility for local mental health budgets, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsDaily Insight: Provider power
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NewsQuintet of STPs to bail out struggling neighbour
Five sustainability and transformation partnerships in the east of England have been asked to bail out a neighbour facing a major deficit.