NHS Black Country and West Birmingham CCG – Page 4
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HSJ LocalHospital in dispute with city council over £1m delayed transfer fines
Birmingham City Council is in dispute with a hospital trust over unpaid fines for delayed transfers of care totalling £1.1m.
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HSJ Local
Trust forced to delay opening of new PFI hospital
A trust in the West Midlands has pushed back the opening of its new hospital by six months following “engineering difficulty”.
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News
HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards 2017: Specialist Services
LPFT North East Lincolnshire CAMHS Service: Crisis and Intensive Home Treatment Team
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HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards 2017: Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation
NHS England, specialised commissioning (medicines optimisation clinical reference group): National Dose Standardisation for Chemotherapy
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards 2017: Communication
Northampton General Hospital Trust: Nurse Bank Recruitment Campaign
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards 2017: Training and Development
EDEN Team, Leicester Diabetes Centre: Artificial Intelligence in Diabetes Healthcare Professional Education
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News
HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards 2017: Improving the Value of Primary Care Services
NHS Lambeth Clinical Commissioning Group: Lambeth DataNet
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HSJ Local
Inadequate CCG 'disintegrates' joint commissioning with council
Deloitte review finds “lack of strategy” and “joined up commissioning” between Walsall CCG and local authority CCG, which is under legal directions, “disintegrates” joint commissioning unit with council as result of review CCG’s interests “not always met” by joint commissioning arrangement A West Midlands clinical ...
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GP quality: Best and worst CCGs in the Midlands and East
Poor quality GP surgeries scattered across the Midlands and East region, with the worst three performing CCGs in Essex, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire Three neighbouring CCGs in south Essex appear in the 10 CCGs with the highest percentage of inadequate or requires improvement CQC ratings Nottingham West outstrips ...
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HSJ Local
Region moves towards contracts to cover whole STP
Clinical commissioning groups in the Black Country have set out a timeline to procure a single acute and single mental health contract across their sustainability and transformation plan area, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
CCGs move to 'single management structure' across STP
CCGs across STP patch to create single management structure CCGs will form joint committee in April as part of future integration plans Four clinical commissioning groups in the Black Country are set to move towards a “single management structure”, HSJ has learned.
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CCG warns against pharma giant's vaccine offer
Dudley CCG warns GPs over buying discounted vaccines directly from Sanofi The manufacturer is offering GPs a 50 per cent discount on flu vaccines GPs are then reimbursed by the NHS Business Services Authority at full price CCG says this may have “negative” impact for taxpayers Commissioners in ...
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Revealed: Significant variation in A&E cancer diagnoses across England
Cancer diagnosis in accident and emergency departments are three times more likely in some parts of England than others, HSJ analysis reveals.
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HSJ Local
Trust sought millions in compensation for 'horrendous' handover delays
In 2017-18 contract negotiations West Midlands Ambulance Service requested compensation from CCGs for handover delays Trust and 22 CCGs entered mediation over the request for compensation Despite mediation the trust said it did not get the agreement it wanted An ambulance trust sought millions of ...
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News
HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards shortlist revealed
The organisations in the running to win one of the HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards 2017 at have been revealed.
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HSJ Local
Trust takes step to becoming 'fully digital'
The Dudley Group Foundation Trust has selected a new fully integrated IT system as part of its patient administration service in a bid to become a “fully digital” hospital.
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News
Round-up: 10 stories you may have missed over Christmas
Catch up on the key stories you might not have seen over the Christmas and new year break.
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News
Leading vanguards not ready to take on new GP contract
Six “intensive” MCP sites working with NHS England have said they will not be close to signing new GP contract by April Manchester CCGs sign agreement with 91 GP practices to pursue MCP Modality Group to “hold ground” on partially integrated MCP model Whitstable MCP to ...
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HSJ Local
NHS manager guilty of £153,600 fraud avoids jail
Lisa Hill and Ian Watson admitted defrauding the NHS of £153,600 Judge suspended two year jail term for two years Money was used to train GPs in mental health care A senior clinical commissioning group manager and clinical lead on its board have avoided being ...
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HSJ Local
Trust tells staff to stop overspending or risk losing STF money
Dudley Group FT tells staff overspending puts its STF payments at risk Trust has introduced spending controls as the cost of agency staff doubles this year Over spending means purchasing a new electronic patient record system is at risk Staff at a Midlands acute trust ...
