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NewsGPs express online records concern
Giving patients online access to their health records will lead to doctors having to explain themselves more often, according to a survey by the Medical Protection Society.
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Exclusive: NHS England could 'ratchet up' financial pressure on private mental health providers, analysts warn
Private mental health providers could see pressure on their profit margins “ratcheted up” by the centralisation of secure and specialised mental healthcare commissioning in the hands of NHS England, according to a new report by market analysts Laing and Buisson.
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NewsHSJ Live 11.4.2013: HSE announces investigation into Staffs case
Jeremy Hunt gains “frontline experience”, Tony Blair’s advice to Labour, deciding NHS resource allocation, and the rest of today’s news
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NewsRoyal College voices concerns over UK paediatric services
Hospital care for sick children at weekends and in evenings needs to be better organised to ensure senior staff are available when needed, according to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
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Majority of LETBs authorised with conditions by Health Education England
The majority of new Local Education and Training Boards will require on-going support and monitoring by Health Education England, it has emerged.
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NewsFlory: 'Loss of experience is greater than I’ve seen'
David Flory has said the current NHS reforms have prompted the greatest loss of management experience of any health service reorganisation he has seen in his career.
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Flory: Francis has moved an all-FT NHS back two years
The consequences of the Francis inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire care scandal have pushed back the process of getting all NHS providers to foundation trust status by two years, David Flory has told HSJ.
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NewsNon-foundation trusts to face 5.1 per cent saving target
The NHS trust sector is looking to cut £1.5bn from its cost base this year in a squeeze that could prompt questions about the viability of some organisations, David Flory has revealed.
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NewsHomoeopathy 'mad' says former government scientist
A former government scientific advisor has criticised the use of homoeopathic treatments in the NHS, claiming the practice has “no scientific basis”.
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NewsLeeds heart unit campaigners urge for investigation
Campaigners fighting to save the children’s heart unit at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) have called on health secretary Jeremy Hunt to launch an investigation into the suspension of surgery at the hospital, describing the decision as “NHS politics at its worst”.
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NewsNHS England to focus future QIPP on 'transformational change'
NHS England has confirmed that the quality, innovation, productivity and prevention savings programme will continue into the next comprehensive spending review period, pledged to set out how major service reconfigurations should be carried out.
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NewsKeogh defends Leeds stoppage as heart surgery cleared to resume
Children’s heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary was halted because of poor data showing unusually high death rates which were submitted by the hospital itself, the medical director of NHS England has said.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: NHS England wins stop gap approval to handle patient data
NHS England has been granted temporary permission to use sensitive patient information, after being forced to make an urgent application for a special legal exemption, HSJ has learned.
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NewsHSJ Live: 9.4.2013: NHS England allowed to use patient data
NHS England given permission to use patient data, how the ‘NHS defeated Thatcher’ and the rest of today’s news
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NewsAnalysed: The Bournemouth and Poole merger
HSJ Briefing is our in-depth analysis of key issues facing some of the major NHS health economies. This week we examine the proposed merger between Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals and Poole Hospital foundation trusts
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NewsTense wait for Leeds heart op decision
Families and clinicians on both sides of the controversy over the children’s heart unit at Leeds General Infirmary face a tense wait to see whether surgery will resume at the centre as expected this week.
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NewsHSJ Live 8.4.2013 Job advert for Chief Inspector of Hospitals unveiled
CQC reveals job specification for new chief inspector of hospitals
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NewsInvestigation raises questions over UK pathology services
Improvements are needed to the way pathology departments across the country are organised and quality assessed, a Royal College of Pathologists investigation has found.
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NewsNew rulebook unveiled for would-be foundation trusts
The NHS Trust Development Authority today releases its “accountability framework” setting out how it will work with the NHS trusts that have not yet achieved foundation status.