News – Page 704
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NewsCQC promotes private health firm
NHS hospital inspectors are being signposted towards private healthcare by their employers, it has emerged.
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NewsHSJ Live 13.01.14 Public think frontline staff have little say in how NHS is run
A survey find the public place the most trust in NHS frontline staff, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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News'Weaknesses' in decisions to drop cases against doctors
Weaknesses have been found in the General Medical Council’s handling of one in five of the fitness to practise cases that it closed early without doctors facing a disciplinary panel, HSJ can reveal.
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Checks 'won't tackle unfit doctors'
Checks aimed at identifying poorly-performing doctors will do nothing to help find or stop them, according to a poll of more than 5,600 doctors.
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News10 January issue of HSJ is ready to read on the app
This week’s issue of HSJ magazine is now available to read on our tablet app.Please note: if iPad users have been experiencing difficulties recently with the app we recommend you delete it from the homescreen and download the latest version from www.hsj.co.uk/tablet-appDownload the HSJ app for iPadDownload the HSJ app ...
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NewsKiller nurses among staff stripped of NHS pensions
Two nurses convicted of murdering patients are among 11 NHS workers that have had their pensions taken away after committing serious offences, it has been revealed.
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NewsHSJ Live: 10.01.14 Legal challenge issued after out-of-hours firm loses bids
A provider of GP out-of-hours services is taking legal action after it lost bids in two out of three areas where they being tendered, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsQuarter of in-deficit CCGs lose out under new funding policy
More than a third of clinical commissioning groups that are underfunded according to the new NHS allocations formula will be even further behind their target share of funding by the end of 2015-16, HSJ analysis has found.
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NewsHSJ Live: 09.01.14 Yorkshire ambulance staff poised to strike
Concern that staff could work 10 hours without a break, and the rest of today’s news
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Board level culture undermines paperless ambition
Senior managers’ lack of knowledge about the clinical and cost benefits of improved IT systems is hindering progress towards the health secretary’s ambition for a paperless NHS, an exclusive HSJ survey suggests.
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NewsAnalysed: Practices urged to work at greater scale
NHS England’s planning guidance, which calls for GP practices to “work at a greater scale”, will not mean the end of single-handed practices, the national body has said.
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NewsFinnamore bought by health giant
The health and social care consultancy Finnamore has been bought by the firm GE Healthcare, one of the world’s largest health technology companies.
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NewsMP: Let communities run hospitals
“Communities” must be given the chance to own and run smaller hospitals and help push forward the changes the NHS needs to succeed, a Conservative MP has said.
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NewsHSJ Live 08.01.14 Top health consultancy is taken over
Influential UK health and social care consultancy acquired by international health giant, and the rest of the day’s news and comment.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Circle mulls bid to partner Peterborough with Hinchingbrooke
Private provider Circle could table a rescue bid for debt-stricken Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals Foundation Trust involving partnering it with nearby Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust, HSJ has been told.
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NewsA&Es meet four-hour target
Accident and emergency departments together managed to meet the four hour waiting time target between October and December, according to NHS England data.
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NewsInfluential MP to demand greater CCG accountability
An influential Conservative MP is planning to raise concerns in the Commons about a lack of accountability in the reformed NHS, and the government potentially missing commitments to improve cancer outcomes.
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NewsFive hundred staff face redundancy from NHS Direct
Hundreds of members of staff at a failed provider to the troubled NHS 111 helpline have been told they face losing their jobs.
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Hospital worker 'ashamed' of tweets
A hospital worker has spoken of how he feels “embarrassed and ashamed” over a series of tweets he posted, including a comment that he was going to use pubic hair shaved from a patient to create the sideburns sported by Olympic cycling champion Sir Bradley Wiggins.
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NewsRepeat patients add to A&E pressure
A small group of NHS patients are adding to pressures on accident and emergency departments by going to casualty dozens of times a year, according to an investigation by the BBC.