News – Page 1430
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SHA steps in over quality issues at West Herts
NHS East of England has stepped in to arrange an “escalation meeting” at West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust to discuss quality issues.
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Herefordshire PCT forms a partnership for support services
COMMERCIAL: NHS Herefordshire has set up a joint venture company with Wye Valley Trust and Herefordshire Council to provide support services.
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Dentists seek to break free from Torbay
COMMERCIAL: Professionals providing community, dentistry and podiatry services in Devon are hoping to break away from Torbay Care Trust and become a social enterprise following intervention from the Department of Health.
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NewsFawcett makes sudden exit from General Healthcare
Adrian Fawcett has suddenly stepped down from his role as chief executive of General Healthcare Group, the UK’s biggest private healthcare provider.
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NewsLansley ready to modify reforms
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has said he was ready to accept “substantial and significant” changes to his NHS reform plans.
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NewsFour arrested over residential hospital 'abuse'
The operator of a residential hospital has apologised unreservedly and suspended a number of staff following allegations that carers routinely abused vulnerable adults with learning difficulties.
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NewsOrganisational reform poses 'catastrophic' information risk
Managers could “stumble into illegality” by breaching the Data Protection Act as a result of the rapid structural reforms to the NHS, HSJ has learned.
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News'Biased' surgeons blamed for unnecessary recall
Surgeons who held a biased view of independent treatment centres caused the unnecessary recall of more than 600 patients, a new report claims.
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FT to survey staff on plans to trade restricted terms for job cuts
WORKFORCE: A Surrey foundation trust is to poll its staff on whether they would accept watering down their nationally agreed terms and conditions in exchange for fewer job cuts.
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NewsDoctors' bonuses could be replaced with non-cash prizes, says DH
Pay awards worth £500m a year could be withheld from consultant doctors and replaced with “non-financial” prizes, the Department of Health has suggested.
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NewsHealth and wellbeing boards 'lack real influence'
“Weak” health and wellbeing boards could result in the NHS Commissioning Board playing the leading role in driving the performance of GP consortia, the King’s Fund has warned in a report.
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Cluster considering centralising pathology services across five PCTs
STRUCTURE: The south west London primary care trust cluster is looking to centralise the procurement of pathology services as part of a wider review of care.
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Surrey and Sussex Healthcare eyed for potential takeover
FINANCE: Expectation is growing that Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust may be one of the next acute trusts put up for takeover.
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NewsNew guidance warns of higher bar for JSNAs
The new “enhanced” joint strategic needs assessment does not represent “business as usual” for the NHS, guidelines have warned.
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NewsMore performance data to be released under new transparency guidelines
Ministers are set to order the health service to publicly release previously restricted clinical data sets as part of a renewed cross-government transparency push, HSJ has learned.
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NewsAudit Commission finds social care services improving
Local councils are improving their adult social care but need to pick up the pace, a watchdog has said.
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Capita grabs toehold in HR as preferred supplier for twelve trusts
COMMERCIAL: Capita has been named “preferred supplier” of HR services for 12 north Merseyside NHS organisations. The deal gives the outsourcing firm a toehold in NHS human resources.
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NewsColleges raising entrance requirements to nursing students
Almost two thirds of institutions offering nursing degrees are increasing their entry requirements in the face of unprecedented demand for places, an investigation by HSJ’s sister title Nursing Times has revealed.
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CCP sets date to assess Barts, Whipps and Newham merger plans
STRUCTURE: The Co-operation and Competition Panel are inviting submissions from interested parties about the three-trust merger by June 15th.
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St Helens and Knowsley failing to meet CQC standards on patient nutrition and hydration
PERFORMANCE: A targeted inspection by the Care Quality Commission found that the trust’s Whiston Hospital was not consistently supporting patients “to have adequate nutrition and hydration”, the regulator reported.