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NewsHSJ Live 13.02.2015: Making NICE guidelines mandatory ‘counterproductive’, says former chair
Former NICE chair criticises NHS commissioners for ‘poorly implementing’ body’s guidelines. plus the rest of today’s news
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NewsExclusive: PHE to further investigate drop in elderly life expectancy
National public health officials have said they will further investigate falls in life expectancy among older people, after finding it was ‘too early’ to conclude they had stopped living for longer.
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NewsExclusive: Medical examiners help expose patient safety risks
Medical examiners working in pilot areas in England have exposed clinical incidents, poor staffing and fatal infections that have led to deaths on hospital wards, according to research shared with HSJ.
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NewsCore GP services could be part of pooled budgets
The Department of Health has launched a public consultation on an amendment that would allow budgets for core GP services to be pooled with clinical commissioning group and local authorities’ funds.
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NewsMidlands paramedic sentenced after hospital death
A West Midlands paramedic has been handed an eight month suspended sentence after failing to examine and start resuscitation on a man who collapsed outside a hospital emergency department.
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NewsHSJ Live 12.02.2015: Probe into life expectancy of older people extends
Public health officials extend probe into life expectancy falls among older people plus the rest of the today’s news
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NewsExclusive interview: Francis insists whistleblowing measures have 'teeth'
New legal powers and regulations brought in over the last 18 months will provide ‘the stick’ to force the NHS to change the way it treats whistleblowers, Sir Robert Francis QC has told HSJ.
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NewsFrancis unveils plan to fix 'serious problem' of NHS's whistleblower treatment
A new national independent officer’s role should be created with responsibility for overseeing the investigation and treatment of NHS whistleblowers, Sir Robert Francis has recommended.
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DH backs shifting national safety functions to single body
The Department of Health has said it “makes sense” to combine national patient safety functions into one organisation, following today’s Francis review report.
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NewsHunt calls for whistleblower protection 'on statute books' before election
The government will aim to get increased safeguards for NHS whistleblowers on to the statute books before the general election, Jeremy Hunt has said.
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NewsGovernment to study 'feasibility' of out of hospital avoidable death rates
The government will fund a national study into avoidable deaths in out of hospital settings to gauge the ‘feasibility’ of developing ‘locally attributable’ death rates.
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NewsTrusts should employ whistleblower ‘guardians’, Francis says
Sir Robert Francis QC has called for every NHS organisation to employ a full time officer to act in an ‘independent capacity’ to hear whistleblowers’ concerns and raise them at board level, as part of his review into creating an open culture in the NHS.
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NewsFrancis: CQC should probe whistleblower settlements
Settlements between NHS trusts and whistleblowers should be scrutinised by the Care Quality Commission to ensure organisations are well led, the Francis review has recommended.
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News'Harrowing' experience of NHS whistleblowers revealed
The Freedom to Speak Up review heard ‘harrowing’ evidence of how some whistleblowers have been treated, according to today’s report.
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NewsNo binding powers for national whistleblowing 'officer'
A new ‘independent national officer’ role should be created to oversee and review the treatment of NHS whistleblowers, Sir Robert Francis’s ‘freedom to speak up review’ has recommended.
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NewsFrancis calls for stronger legal protection for whistleblowers
Ministers should extend the legal protection for NHS staff who raise whistleblowing concerns through a system to also help those out of work find new jobs in the service, the Francis review has said.
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NewsHSJ Live 11.02.2015: Francis whistleblowing report and reaction - catch up
Sir Robert Francis has published his review of how whistleblowers are treated in the NHS. The health department has also published a its response, and a comprehensive update on other policy made in response to the Mid Staffs failures.
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NewsExclusive: Stevens moves to sidestep pricing rules after provider revolt
Trusts will be asked to accept a new ‘voluntary’ tariff for 2015-16 after the formal price setting process was thrown into uncertainty and delay by a provider revolt, Simon Stevens has proposed.
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NewsHunt's plans for local avoidable death estimates ‘meaningless’
Plans outlined by Jeremy Hunt to calculate the number of avoidable deaths for individual hospitals ‘wouldn’t have any meaning’, according to the expert whose research the idea is based on.
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NewsHSJ launches second phase of change challenge campaign
Identifying the best ways to help the NHS drive real change