All articles by Nick Renaud-Komiya – Page 20
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NHS England director returns as Choices chief
A senior NHS England director and former director at outsourcing giant Capita has been made senior responsible officer for the NHS Choices programme.
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Second proposed FT merger under competition scrutiny
STRUCTURE: The Competition and Markets Authority has begun a review of the proposed merger between Frimley Park Hospital Foundation Trust and its troubled neighbour Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust.
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Trust's FT bid delayed by CQC findings
Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust’s bid for foundation status has been further delayed, following a Care Quality Commission inspection which found the trust “required improvement”.
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'Admin burden’ blamed for hospital's block on some Welsh patients
PERFORMANCE: An English acute trust near the Welsh border has blamed two Welsh health boards for creating an “administrative burden” which has led it to stop carrying out non-specialist procedures on patients from their area.
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Exclusive: Patient leader warning over Care.data timetable
Gaining public confidence in the controversial Care.data scheme may take longer than the six months currently set aside, according to an influential member of a group advising on the work.
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NICE chief: Approval changes 'won't increase NHS drugs bill'
The head of the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence has suggested the NHS will not pay more overall for branded pharmaceuticals in future as a result of proposed changes to the way the organisation assesses the value of new drugs.
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NICE to consult on delayed ‘value-based’ drug pricing plans
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is to announce proposals on Thursday that could see the health service increase the amount it spends on branded pharmaceutical drugs.
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Tech Fund underspend to be rolled over
Nearly half of the £90m Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards technology funding originally earmarked to be spent this year will be rolled over into 2014-15, NHS England has said.
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Information Centre chair defends private sector data use
The chair of the Health and Social Care Information Centre has suggested the use of NHS data by private companies does not “necessarily” contradict the aims of the NHS.
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NICE chief demands transparency over trial data
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence chief executive has said that the pharmaceutical industry should disclose more data from clinical trials.
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Review prompts trust to outline care strategy
United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust plans to concentrate specialised urgent care on fewer sites and reduce hospital bed numbers as part of a strategy to fix problems identified in a comprehensive review of care in the county.
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Manchester AHSC agrees major drug trial partnership
One of the country’s most developed academic-NHS centres has agreed a major partnership with a pharmaceutical giant, aiming to increase the number of patients in clinical trials.
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DH: New care.data safeguards will not affect research or commissioning
The government has published the legal measures it hopes will allay fears over the controversial care.data programme, and insisted they will not prevent information being available for commissioning, research and public health.
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Hunt says NHS on track for patients' access to their GP records
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said 95 per cent of NHS patients will be able to access their GP care records online, free of charge, by the time of the next general election.
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Nicholson: ‘Not speaking to Mid Staffs relatives my biggest mistake’
Outgoing NHS England chief executive Sir David Nicholson has said he “bitterly” regrets not doing more to engage with the families of patients who died as a result of care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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Care.data 'opt-in' is discussed
NHS England has for the first time discussed the possible benefits of moving to a system where patients opt-in to signal consent for their data to be shared in the controversial care.data scheme, HSJ understands.
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Southern Health death ‘preventable’
A lack of effective clinical leadership contributed to the death of an 18-year-old man at a mental health unit in Oxfordshire, an independent report has concluded.
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UPDATED: Health bosses 'undermine trust' in patient database, say MPs
Members of the Commons health committee criticised the NHS’s handling of the care.data project, in a heated evidence session yesterday.
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Follow it live: health committee on Care.data
Live tweeting from the Commons health committee as it hears evidence about the troubled data scheme
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Increase in NHS land designated for housing
Proposals to sell hospital sites contributed to an 11 per cent rise in the area of land being designated for sale for housing by English NHS organisations in 2012.