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NewsNew Compassionate Patient Care category for HSJ Awards
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is encouraging all organisations to enter a new HSJ Award category being backed by the Department of Health.
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NewsNicholson: There will be more Staffords without service change
Sir David Nicholson has warned the NHS could face repeats of the care scandal in Mid Staffordshire if the public did not face up to the need for major reorganisation of hospital services.
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NewsHSJ Live 11.7.2013: Hunt backs two reconfigurations
Jeremy Hunt accepts proposals for Trafford A&E downgrade, reaction to £30bn NHS funding gap warning, and the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsMonitor issues fresh warning on NHS funding gap
Monitor’s chief executive has said that even if the NHS did everything the regulator could think of to make savings it would not be enough to close the funding gap facing the service by 2021-22.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England to take control of investment spending
NHS England is drawing up plans to centralise control of spending on estates and information technology in the health service, including proposals to sign off spending by bodies over which it has no formal power.
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NewsHSJ launches tablet app and digital-only subscriptions
HSJ is now available for iPad.The new iPad app means you can access HSJ’s award-winning journalism on the move or save it to read offline. It contains every story from the most recent issue of the magazine, plus all the latest content from hsj.co.uk.An Android version of the app will ...
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NewsCCGs 'unable to fulfill statutory functions'
Clinical commissioning groups have told NHS England that they are unable to fulfill their statutory functions due to data privacy laws.
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NewsNHS 'paid £435m in redundancies'
The NHS has spent more than £435m making staff redundant as part of its controversial health reforms, official figures show.
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NewsGovernment 'likely to need legislation' to change NHS merger rules
The government is likely to have to legislate if it wants to change the regulation of NHS provider mergers, HSJ has been told.
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NewsSafety fears as junior doctors abandon A&E
Junior doctors are turning their backs on emergency medicine, exacerbating patient safety risks in accident and emergency departments, the General Medical Council has warned.
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NewsHealthcare assistants should obtain care certificate, says review
All healthcare assistants should complete a certificate before they can care for patients unsupervised and that would act as a “badge of honour”, a government commissioned review has recommended.
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Barking's 'failings' slammed again
A hospital is continuing to fail emergency patients almost two years after inspectors called for improvements, a regulator has found.
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NewsHSJ Live 10.07.2013: HCAs need to get care certificates
Healthcare assistants should obtain certificates; explaining NHS pension changes and the rest of today’s news
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NewsReconfiguration rules held up three months after system reformed
The government has refused to publish guidance which has been prepared on how service reconfiguration could be planned in the new NHS system, more than three months after the reforms took effect.
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Regional hospitals push for funding equality with London
A group of regional teaching hospitals is pushing NHS England to guarantee its members the same level of financial support as their London counterparts receive under the Project Diamond programme, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsExclusive: Regulators to face scrutiny at Morecambe Bay inquiry
The actions of health regulators are to be examined by the inquiry set up to probe care failings at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust, HSJ has learned.
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NewsLow-tech process 'can cut IVF cost'
A low-tech simplified form of IVF that makes use of baking soda has the potential to slash the cost of assisted conception, bringing it within reach of millions more childless couples around the world, research has shown.
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NewsOFT probe could rachet up pressure on health IT providers
The Office of Fair Trading investigation into the public sector IT market could put fresh pressure on leading NHS providers to give trusts more flexibility on price and services, IT experts have told HSJ.
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NewsScottish Tories call for action on dementia
The Scottish government needs to be prepared for an “intensifying” dementia crisis, Tories have said.