News – Page 946
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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals cancer care praised
PERFORMANCE: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals has performed well in the cancer patient experience survey, according to a board paper.
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Birmingham Children's Hospital hails feedback app
PERFORMANCE: Birmingham Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust has said an innovative new feedback app - which allows patients to make comments on how they are being treated in almost real-time – has been a success.
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Sussex health visitors seek UNICEF kite mark
PERFORMANCE: The infant feeding service in West Sussex has launched a programme to achieve UNICEF baby friendly accreditation.
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Non-executive director joins Sussex community trust
WORKFORCE: Stephen Lightfoot has been appointed as a non-executive director at Sussex Community NHS Trust.
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NewsMonitor seeks solution to competition impasse
Monitor is in with talks with the Office of Fair Trading to try to prevent trusts which want to merge from facing drawn out inquiries under competition law, HSJ has been told.
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NewsChoices to change friends and family presentation
NHS England has agreed to change the way the results of the friends and family test are presented online by NHS Choices following complaints from trusts, HSJ has learned.
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NewsUnitedHealth UK posts £8.2m loss
UnitedHealth UK recorded a £8.2m loss and a 27 per cent fall in turnover in 2012 - its eleventh loss-making year in a row - the company’s annual accounts reveal.
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Royal Cornwall takes action over cardiology concerns
PERFORMANCE: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has restricted the practice of a consultant cardiologist after identifying concerns during “routine scrutiny”.
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Trust fined for radiation breach
An NHS trust has been fined £30,000 after a hospital radiologist was exposed to illegal levels of ionising radiation while using a CT scanner.
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NewsA&Es facing 'intolerable pressures'
Urgent action must be taken to ensure that emergency departments remain safe and sustainable, doctors have warned.
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NewsGovernment called on to strengthen controversial failure regime
The government has been asked to strengthen the NHS failure regime so regulators can recommend changes to services and structures across several providers.
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Mid Staffs finance director joins Morecambe Bay
WORKFORCE: Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust’s finance director is leaving to take up the role of director of finance and deputy chief executive at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust.
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Trust faces £2m bill to take over treatment centre
East and North Hertfordshire Trust faces a £2m bill following its takeover of a poorly performing privately-run treatment centre, HSJ has learned.
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CCGs plan integrated emergency service
Two clinical commissioning groups in Cheshire are drawing up plans to set up the first integrated pathway for emergency care, HSJ has learned.
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Public money could fund new hospital
CAPITAL SCHEMES A proposed £283m new hospital in the North East could be part-funded with public money after a plan to pay for it it using loans from pension funds was dropped.
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NewsNo NHS pay rise freeze, Neil says
The Scottish government has said it will not freeze pay rises for NHS staff following moves to halt increases south of the border.
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NewsLegal threat over Burnham 'cover-up' claims
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been threatened with potential legal action by Labour in a dramatic escalation of a row over claims of a “cover-up” of NHS care shortcomings.
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Nottingham fined over C diff cases
PERFORMANCE: Nottingham University Hospitals Trust faces a fine of approximately £40,000 after exceeding its of clostridium difficile target.
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Cambridge signs £120m deal to build private hospital and hotel complex
Laing O’Rourke will build the £120m Forum development on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus after a joint venture between John Laing and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust was agreed, HSJ sister title Construction News has reported.
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South Gloucs CCG reveals underfunding
FINANCE: South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group is underfunded by more than 8 per cent in 2013-14, board papers claim.