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NewsAmbulance 'postcode lottery' costing lives
About 2,500 lives a year are being lost due to a “postcode lottery” in how ambulances respond to heart attack patients, a former service boss has claimed.
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NewsPlan to increase email security in £168m tender
A tender has been announced for a £168.1m contract to run the NHS’s email system over a five year period.
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NewsDominance of small GP practices undermines push for extended providers
General practice remains overwhelmingly dominated by providers on single sites with small lists, providing little beyond “core” services, HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsHSJ Live 19.02.2014 Reaction to NHS England Care.data delay announcement
General practice remains overwhelmingly dominated by small providers, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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NewsFrancis: patient advocacy 'more fragmented' than at time of Mid Staffs scandal
Robert Francis QC has warned that advocacy support for people who want to complain or raise concerns about health care services is “more fragmented” than when he investigated the scandal at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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NewsGPs should control community services, report says
GPs should take responsibility for out of hospital community services for patients under their registered lists, according to a report by the King’s Fund.
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NewsLiquidity problems forced trust to abandon George Eliot bid
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust was forced to leave the bidding process to run nearby George Eliot Hospital due to financial concerns, HSJ understands.
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NewsBid to update alcohol licence rules
Councils should be able to curb pub and off licence opening hours in a bid to cut costs and ease the pressures of alcohol-related admissions on hospitals, it has been claimed.
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NewsExclusive: Mental health trust threatens legal challenge over tariff
A mental health trust has told HSJ it is considering a legal challenge against the decision by NHS England and Monitor to impose 20 per cent higher cuts for mental health and community providers than for their acute counterparts.
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NewsUncertainty over Wye Valley future
The future of Wye Valley Trust has been plunged into uncertainty after the trust ruled out all three options on a shortlist to secure its long term future.
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NewsHSJ Live 18.02.2014 care.data programme postponed by six months
NHS England has has delayed plans to begin collecting patient data from GP surgeries to later this year following mouting criticism, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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NewsHSJ map: Large and extended GP providers
Selected GP federations and large-scale providers mapped
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NewsCaldicott: Information governance knowledge has worsened
The health and social care workforce’s knowledge of good information governance has deteriorated since the NHS reforms were implemented, according to the expert commissioned by the government to examine the issue.
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NewsTrust 'loses confidence' in PFI provider
North Cumbria University Hospitals has “lost confidence” in the private finance initiative contractor that manages facilities on its main site after a probe uncovered “major issues” with the way its operating theatres, water systems and gas pipelines were being maintained.
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NewsConcern at medical records sharing
Almost half of the public do not understand plans for sharing their medical records while 80 per cent of GPs are unclear how the data will be used, surveys have shown.
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NewsNICE rejects drug policy that 'values pensioners less'
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has rejected government proposals that would see an assessment of the benefits a patient may have on society being taken into account when deciding whether to pay for new drugs.
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NewsHSJ Live 17.02.2014 Patients at Wirral operated on with unsterilised equipment
Nine patients potentially put at risk of infection when unsterilised instruments used in surgery, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment.
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Cosmetic surgery vows 'appalling'
Government pledges on the cosmetic surgery industry are “appalling” and represent a “wasted opportunity to ensure patient safety”, leading experts have said.
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NewsHSJ Live 14.02.2014 Dalton to examine barriers to hospital chains
Salford Royal chief executive leads team to look at “superhead” style of management, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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News14 February issue of HSJ is ready to read on the app
This week’s issue of HSJ magazine is now available to read on our tablet app.Download the HSJ app for iPadDownload the HSJ app for AndroidIn this week’s issue we examine the plans for hospital chain being discussed by senior national healthcare leaders. Plus:The Department of Health acknowledges life expectancy at ...