All articles by Nick Renaud-Komiya – Page 13
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HSJ Local
Acute trusts seek to establish 'blueprint' for regional locum agencies
COMMERCIAL: Nine South West trusts have embarked on an initiative to bring down the cost of hiring locum doctors, which it hopes will be a “blueprint” for the health service across the country.
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HSJ Local
Local influence over community hospitals at risk, warns Devon trust chief
COMMERCIAL: The leader of a Devon trust has warned that local influence over how a number of its community hospitals are used will lessen if it loses possession of the sites.
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HSJ Local
Social enterprises win Cornwall out of hours contract
COMMERCIAL: A social enterprise consortium will replace Serco as the provider of out of hours GP services across Cornwall.
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News
Hunt calls for whistleblower protection 'on statute books' before election
The government will aim to get increased safeguards for NHS whistleblowers on to the statute books before the general election, Jeremy Hunt has said.
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HSJ Local
Gloucestershire trust challenges CCG penalties
FINANCE: Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust has formally challenged a decision by its main commissioner to impose financial penalties worth a total of £2m this year.
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HSJ Local
Lincoln Hospital begins £580k revamp
CAPITAL SCHEMES: Building work costing more than £580,000 has begun on Lincoln County Hospital’s outpatient department following investment from United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust.
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HSJ Local
Nottingham trust submits plans to build helipad
CAPITAL SCHEMES: Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has submitted plans to build a helipad and a multistorey car park at its Queen’s Medical Centre site.
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HSJ Local
Leicester to pilot extended GP opening hours
PRIMARY CARE: Patients across Leicester have been offered increased weekend access to a number of GP practices as part of a pilot scheme running until the end of February.
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HSJ Local
Lincolnshire mental health trust appoints operations director
WORKFORCE: Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust has appointed Ian Jerams as its director of operations.
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HSJ Local
Special measures trust looking for two new ‘buddies’
PERFORMANCE: Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust is in talks to enter into a formal ‘buddying’ arrangement with Royal United Hospitals Bath FT, following the end of its relationship with Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals FT.
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HSJ Local
South West CCG introduces system-wide CQUIN plan
FINANCE: A South West clinical commissioning group will attempt to encourage better integration between providers in the region by launching a set of health economy-wide incentive payments to drive performance.
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HSJ Local
Sheffield finance chief moves to Nottinghamshire trust
WORKFORCE: Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed Paul Robinson as its chief finance officer.
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News
Stevens: Room for more flexibility in the future of FT model
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has suggested that there could be more flexibility in what constitutes a foundation trust in future.
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HSJ Local
Northamptonshire agrees revamped better care fund plan
FINANCE: Northamptonshire’s health bodies and its county council have finally agreed on the terms of its better care fund plan, following intervention from NHS England.
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HSJ Local
Leicester Hospitals adopts automated drugs system
COMMERCIAL: University Hospitals of Leicester Trust is to adopt a hi-tech medicines management system which will use robots to pack individual drug doses.
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HSJ Local
Nene CCG chief to step down
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Nene Clinical Commissioning Group is to step down from his role to help set up an organisation spreading “high impact” ideas across the health sector
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News
Trusts forced to look overseas to plug paramedic gaps
Ambulance services across England are looking overseas to fill gaps in their paramedic workforce as trusts grapple with vacancy rates as high as 25 per cent, HSJ research has found.
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HSJ Local
Nine complaints against South West trust elevated to ombudsman
PERFORMANCE: South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust has disclosed that nine complaints made against it have been elevated to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman since December 2013.
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HSJ Local
Updated: Competition regulator to probe NEW Devon £100m contract award
COMMERCIAL: Competition regulator Monitor has opened an investigation into a Devon clinical commissioning group’s plan to award a community services contract without a tender, a decision one trust has called “wrong” for patients.
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News
Exclusive: Independent sector 'could provide 50 per cent of community services by 2020'
Independent sector providers could take a 50 per cent share of the market for NHS community services by the end of the decade, according to market analyst LaingBuisson.