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NewsDoctors face new laws on reporting deaths to coroners
New laws will come into effect tomorrow requiring doctors to report deaths to a coroner for the first time in a bid to modernise the death reporting process in England and Wales.
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NewsFull maternity services at hospital axed for ‘foreseeable future’
Commissioners have extended the temporary closure of an obstetrics unit for the “foreseeable future” after difficulties staffing it.
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NewsNew burdens could wipe out public health grant uplift
New significant public health burdens could be imposed on councils, wiping out a promised real-terms increase in the public health grant next year.
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NewsDaily Insight: Politicians in hard hats
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsMapped: The hospital builds in PM’s pledge
The trusts which will benefit from a share of £2.7bn to rebuild hospitals, or £100m to develop business cases for future schemes, announced by the prime minister today.
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NewsGovernment promises £3bn hospital building programme
The government has announced a £3bn capital investment plan to rebuild hospitals and replace diagnostic equipment.
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NewsGovernment earmarks £200m capital for diagnostic equipment
The government has brought forward a spending announcement, promising an extra £200m to improve the cancer scanning and diagnostic capacity of the NHS over the next 18 months.
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NewsIndependent review ordered at FT after claims of patient safety concerns
An independent review has been ordered into a hospital trust’s urology unit after patient safety concerns were put to an employment tribunal.
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News‘Outstanding’ CCG’s first chair announces retirement
The first clinical chair of the newly formed Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group is to retire from his post next year.
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NewsCommunity hospital to reopen after staff shortages forced it to shut
An Oxfordshire community hospital is to reopen after it was forced to shut at the beginning of the summer due to major nursing shortages.
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NewsDaily Insight: An inspector calls, and then calls again
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsTrust approves ‘rapid growth’ plan for overseas work
A leading mental health trust is creating a joint venture organisation to develop its commercial work, including private care in the Middle East and potentially China.
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NewsRevealed: Government preparing for nurse funding U-turn
The government is gearing up to announce reforms of financial support for NHS student nurses – likely to include a major reversal in funding policy – to boost applications.
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NewsRegulators tell trusts to ‘learn lessons’ from deaths in 2008 and 2012
NHS regulators have warned trusts to heed the learnings of an ombudsman report into the deaths of two patients, ahead of their own review into patient safety failings.
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NewsNHS England sets playing field for digital GP providers
Digital-first GP providers will have to set up a clinic in most localities where they have patients, and will be denied entry to areas which already have enough doctors, under new rules adopted by NHS England.
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NewsDaily Insight: The Lansley wrecking ball
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsHealth and care world backs far-reaching NHS legislation
Patient, staff and NHS groups have joined with NHS England to ask government to put forward an “NHS integrated care bill”, which would scrap big chunks of the last major piece of health legislation.
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NewsRevealed: 275 jobs to go as NHS England and Improvement cut costs
NHS England and NHS Improvement will shed 654 posts under cost reduction plans revealed this morning.
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NewsMost maternity incidents linked to not acting on fetal heart rates
Staff failing to act on abnormal fetal heartbeats during labour was the most common contributing factor in cases where babies were born with brain damage and referred to NHS Resolution’s new early notification scheme, it has emerged.
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NewsHarding: Social care staff are priority for better pay over NHS
NHS Improvement’s chair has said the staff “in our health and social care system who are most underpaid are healthcare assistants working in social care, not [staff] in the NHS” - and that they should be prioritised in funding decisions.