SERVICE DESIGN: Recent board papers for Cumbria CCG warn of ongoing problems with service provision for its spinal pain management service.
Although the papers explain that the service has now been “assured” the CCG has also decided to commission a new service for chronic pain management across the region.
10 April 2013
An ambulance trust has appointed a new chair, who a panel found had displayed “bullying behaviour” in a previous role as a police and crime commissioner.
Three former senior leaders of the trust where babies were murdered by Lucy Letby have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.
Dozens of trusts have been hit with financial penalties after regulators questioned their claims to be compliant with maternity safety standards.
A provider and a site have been chosen for a new urgent care service in the North East, after two procurement processes and an abandoned legal challenge.
The last commissioner with advanced plans to award an accountable care organisation contract has scaled back its proposals, HSJ can reveal.
Health leaders in the North East have warned councillors of the “significant risk” to protecting patient safety if they seek to block a reconfiguration of “vulnerable” acute services.
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