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NewsLamb: Failing integration pioneers could lose their status
The Department of Health’s integrated care “pioneers” will be monitored centrally to check progress against their plans and could be stripped of their status if they lose their way, health minister Norman Lamb has said.
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NewsMonitor will focus on competition in Manchester cancer investigation
Monitor has revealed its investigation into the commissioning of cancer services in Manchester will focus on whether competition rules were breached.
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NewsA&E pressure increasing admissions
Accident and emergency departments are under increasing pressure, which is leading to high numbers of patients being admitted, according to a new report from the National Audit Office.
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NewsHSJ Live: 31.10.13: Community services trusts developing benchmark indicators
They hope it will strengthen their arm when fighting off private firms’ bid to enter market
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NewsHSJ commission to tackle "the major issue affecting NHS performance"
HSJ has launched a commission to investigate and help improve the hospital care of frail older people.
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Exclusive: Wellbeing boards must avoid becoming 'a side show'
More than three quarters of health and wellbeing boards believe they have little influence over NHS England, according to a major study shared exclusively with HSJ and its sister title Local Government Chronicle.
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Community trusts devise plan to 'level playing field'
Community services trusts are starting work on a national programme to develop indicators to benchmark their performance and value, which could potentially underpin a tariff payment system for the sector, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsGP and hospital records to be ‘linked’ by June
The flagship patient data service, care.data, will be able to “link” data from patients’ GP records to their hospital records by June next year, NHS England has announced.
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NewsHunt backs north west London reconfiguration
Jeremy Hunt has accepted the recommendations of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel to give a green light to a major reconfiguration of accident and emergency services in north west London.
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NewsHSJ Live 30.10.13 Higher death rate at seven NHS trusts
Health Secretary gives statement on reconfiguration and the rest of today’s news
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Read the GMC's Hakin decision in full
The General Medical Council has concluded there is no realistic prospect of proving allegations Dame Barbara Hakin bullied former hospital chief executive Gary Walker due to a lack of convincing evidence.
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NewsHigher death rate NHS trusts named
Seven NHS trusts have higher than expected death rates for patients who die in hospital or within 30 days of discharge, according to new data.
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NewsReport calls for training changes
Doctors’ training must change to meet the needs of an ageing population, according to a major review.
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NewsConcern over race bias on leadership course
Just 4 per cent of recruits to a nursing leadership course set up at the request of the prime minister are from a non-white background, HSJ’s sister title Nursing Times has learnt.
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NewsExclusive: Carter laments slow progress on pathology reform
The author of an influential review of pathology services has expressed disappointment at the slow pace of reform but said he had not yet “given up hope” it can be achieved.
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NewsRegulator chiefs summoned to Number 10 over winter pressures
The chief executives of the three major health regulators have been summoned by the prime minister to discuss the pressures the service is likely to come under this winter, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Hakin cleared of bullying and endangering patient safety
NHS England’s interim deputy chief executive Dame Barbara Hakin has been cleared of acting in a “bullying” and unprofessional manner by the General Medical Council, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS Choices tender to miss minister's deadline
The procurement process to outsource a revamped NHS Choices website is to miss a deadline set out by health minister Lord Howe for retendering to begin in 2013, HSJ has learned.
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NewsGovernment's candidate to be Monitor chair withdraws application
Dominic Dodd, the preferred candidate of the government to be chair of Monitor, has withdrawn his application after the Commons health committee refused to back him.