All News articles – Page 702
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NewsNHS funds will subsidise councils' services, CCG leaders believe
Mandatory budget pooling with councils will improve care outside hospital, local commissioning leaders believe.
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NewsSurge of concern about commissioning support relationships
There is strong support among local leaders for changes to the nine-month-old commissioning system, including support arrangements and NHS England’s responsibilities.
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NewsTake part in our wireless network survey
HSJ is keen to hear your views on the wireless network in your organisation
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NewsLabour: bring back GP appointment target
The target for GPs to guarantee patients an appointment within 48 hours should be restored to help ease the pressure on accident and emergency departments, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said.
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Liver surgeon suspended by GMC
Health chiefs have suspended a specialist liver surgeon linked to the “avoidable deaths” of eight patients he operated on in south Wales.
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NewsCQC launches dementia services review
The Care Quality Commission is to undertake unannounced inspections of 150 care homes and hospitals to review the care of people with dementia in England.
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NewsListen: Next NHS England chief on future healthcare
Listen to the incoming NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens, who will replace Sir David Nicholson in April, talk about innovation and the future of healthcare in a speech in Qatar yesterday.
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NewsHSJ Live: 11.12.13 The 100 most powerful people in health
The HSJ100 was announced today and the rest of today’s news
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NewsGPs replaced following CQC inspections
More details emerged of how the lead GPs of poorly performing practices have been replaced following Care Quality Commission inspections.
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NewsFlory: Commissioning uncertainty hitting trusts' finances
Unpredictable financial flows caused by unsettled commissioning structures are causing problems for trusts, according to Trust Development Authority chief executive David Flory.
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NewsMonitor to increase supervision of FT A&E performance
Monitor is increasing its scrutiny of foundation hospitals’ accident and emergency performance this winter, after being requested to do so by the health secretary.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Serco chief admits mistakes
Outsourcing giant Serco underestimated how long it would take to restructure community health services in Suffolk, its health managing director has told HSJ.
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NewsCancer care 'postcode lottery'
Cancer patients are facing a postcode lottery of care within the NHS, with patients in some areas four times less likely to get an early diagnosis, it has been reported.
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NewsNew guidance on IV drip prescribing
Up to one in five patients could be suffering unnecessarily in hospitals across the UK because medics are making basic blunders in prescribing drips, experts have warned.
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NewsDH paid £1.5m to financial advisers on blood company sell-off
The Department of Health paid £1.5m to the financial advisers who acted for the government in the sale of the majority stake in Plasma Resources UK, the blood products company.
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NewsHSJ Live: 10.12.2013 Specialised commissioning £196.7m behind plan
NHS reports a deficit of £136.8m in specialised commissioning, and the rest of the day’s news and comment
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Integration pioneers among winners from £260m technology fund
Three plans to join up patient records across a number of health and social care organisations are among 135 projects to have secured a share of NHS England’s £260m technology fund.
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NewsRevealed: Thousand incidences of specialised services failing standards
NHS England has agreed more than 1,000 temporary contract variations when providers of specialised services have failed to meet new service standards, HSJ has learned.
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NewsHSJ Live: 09.12.2013 Patients forced to wait in ambulances
Ambulance waits outside hospitals, and the rest of the day’s news and comment