News – Page 736
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NewsTrust teams up with Capita and Circle in £1bn contract bid
Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust has teamed up with outsourcer Capita and private health provider Circle to jointly bid for a £1bn older people’s care contract, HSJ has learned.
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NewsAvoid long contract lock-ins says Obamacare IT chief
Trusts should be wary of committing to multimillion-pound contracts with orthodox electronic patient record systems offered by existing market leading IT vendors, Barack Obama’s top health technology official has warned.
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NewsHSJ Live 02.08.2013: Obamacare IT chief warning over long contracts
Capita, Circle and trust team up for £1bn bid; Bryan Sivak interview; and the rest of today’s news
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Advice for pregnancy risk patients
GPs are being urged to question women with diabetes or epilepsy about their plans for children to prevent placing unborn babies at risk.
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NewsDoctor to stand on pro-NHS ticket
A doctor and former MP is to stand at the 2015 general election to fight the government’s NHS reforms.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England apologises after major complaints 'backlog'
National officials have apologised “unreservedly” after the handling of thousands of complaints about GPs and dentists was delayed following the handover to the reformed NHS system.
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NewsCQC 'brutally discredited' Bower and Finney
Former Care Quality Commission executives were “hung out to dry” by a “flawed process” after chief executive David Behan ignored warnings about potential problems with the work of an independent review, it has been alleged.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England chief executive job description
NHS England is advertising for an “honest, open and transparent” individual to become its chief executive.
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NewsCouncil leader proposes alternative rescue plan for Mid Staffs
Staffordshire Council’s leader has proposed an alternative model for the future of the county’s health economy to the one recommended by Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust’s special administrators.
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NewsProton cancer therapy coming to UK
Cancer patients who currently travel abroad for a special type of radiotherapy will be able to get it in the UK from 2018.
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NewsHSJ Live 01.08.2013: Former CQC staff claim 'hung out to dry'
NHS England chief executive job description revealed, how to stop the whole hospital being slowed down and the rest of today’s news and analysis
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NewsSpecial administrator recommends dissolving Mid Staffs
The special administrators appointed to Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have recommended the organisation is dissolved and its maternity service closes.
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NewsHigh Court quashes Lewisham downgrade decision
The decision to downgrade services at Lewisham Hospital has been quashed in the High Court.
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NewsExclusive: Treasury raid on pensions could drain billions from NHS
Treasury plans to recalculate the value of public sector pensions and introduce a single tier pension could leave the health service facing an annual bill of £2.5bn, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsUPDATED: Deal reached on consultant contract talks
An agreement has been reached between NHS Employers and the British Medical Association on terms to renegotiate the consultant contract.
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NewsExclusive: Dalton reveals he is not applying for NHS England job
Former NHS Commissioning Board chief operating officer Ian Dalton has ruled himself out of contention for the NHS England chief executive’s job.
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Plan to change gender reassignment surgery guidelines is dropped
NHS England has shelved proposals to change how it commissions gender reassignment surgery following clinicians’ concerns
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NewsUPDATED: How HSJ has covered the NHS 111 rollout debacle
A round-up of HSJ’s comprehensive coverage of the problematic NHS 111 rollout, from its announcement in 2010 to the most recent developments
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NewsHSJ Live 31.7.2013: Reaction to Lewisham and Mid Staffs announcements
Lewisham High Court decision, the future for Mid Staffs, Robert Francis QC at the CQC’s board meeting and the rest of today’s news and comments
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NewsUPDATED: Wide variation in response rates for friends and family test
Significant variation between trusts in the response rates to the friends and family survey has sparked fresh concern about the test’s validity following publication of the first national results on Tuesday.