News – Page 1231
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MP calls for probe into regulator following Morecambe Bay scandal
PERFORMANCE: An MP has called for an inquiry into foundation trust regulator Monitor after its chairman admitted it was “very likely” there were deeper problems present at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay when it was granted FT status.
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Norfolk Community Health and Care approaches C diff maximum
PERFORMANCE: Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust had one case of Clostridium difficile in January, bringing its total in the year so far to eight.
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NewsCaseload fear emerges in 'inspection' of CQC
Staff working for the Care Quality Commission are demoralised and fear making a mistake because of impossible workloads, a union survey has found.
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NewsUPDATED: Staff keep NHS pensions as Virgin's Surrey deal goes through
Virgin Care has signed a £500m community services contract with NHS Surrey under an arrangement which will see staff employed by a social enterprise.
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NewsNHS savings plans 'short on detail' as trusts plan swathe of cuts
There is a lack of detail about where “efficiency savings” demanded by the government of the health service are being made, analysts have said.
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NewsBMA warns of first doctor industrial action in decades
The first ballot of doctors on industrial action since 1975 will go ahead within weeks if the government does not rethink the major changes it is making to NHS pensions.
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Royal Free authorised as Foundation Trust
STRUCTURE: The north London acute was today authorised as a foundation trust by Monitor.
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NewsPrivately-run centre breaches 18-week standard
Patients are being diverted away from a privately-run treatment centre because the 18-week referral-to-treatment standard is being breached.
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NewsMPs find CQC is 'not up to the job'
The Care Quality Commission is not up to the job of registering 10,000 GP practices during the next year and should not take on responsibility for regulating IVF services, MPs have warned.
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SHIP fails to cut emergency demand
PERFORMANCE: Hampshire primary care trusts are continuing to buck a national trend with rising demand for non-elective services.
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Oxfordshire NHS and academic bodies form partnership
STRUCTURE: NHS and academic bodies have agreed to establish an “Oxford Academic Health Partnership”.
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NewsDH sets out FT pipeline escalation framework
The Department of Health has re-iterated that if trusts miss their targets for applying for foundation trust status they face an “escalation process”.
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NewsNicholson: commissioning staff will know job fate by December
Commissioning staff will find out whether they have a place in the new commissioning system, and many will be transferred, by December, NHS Commissioning Board chief executive Sir David Nicholson has announced.
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Mid Staffs medical director announces resignation
WORKFORCE: The medical director of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has announced he is to resign, less than six months before the end of his contract.
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Isle of Wight prepares to split commissioner and provider functions
STRUCTURE: The purchaser-provider split is set to be implemented on the Isle of Wight after the secretary of state approved plans to break up the existing primary care trust.
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NewsLansley condemns expensive GP phone calls
Patients should not be charged premium phone call rates to make an appointment with their GP, health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
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NewsDoctor employed by trusts despite 'mercy killing' conviction
A foreign doctor convicted of the “mercy killing” of a patient in Spain later got a job with police in the UK, medical watchdogs have heard.
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NewsAcute sector faces wave of mergers and reconfigurations
The English NHS hospital sector is facing a wave of mergers, acquisitions and reconfigurations, HSJ’s extensive survey of trust chief executives has revealed.
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NewsQuarter of trusts consider negligence scheme exit
Seventy-two NHS trusts have consulted with a private insurance broker over leaving the NHS Litigation Authority for a commercial alternative, it has been claimed.
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NewsNHS and pharmaceutical partnerships being deterred by 'misconceptions'
Opportunities for collaboration between the NHS and pharmaceutical companies are being missed due to “misconceptions” about the industry, guidance exclusively disclosed to HSJ has warned.