All articles by Nick Renaud-Komiya – Page 8
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Care.data opt out ignored by commissioners, campaigners claim
Patients who opted out from having their GP records shared as part of the Care.data programme have been ignored by commissioners behind a pilot scheme in Southend, privacy campaigners have claimed.
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Monitor probes trust governance following unfair dismissal ruling
LEADERSHIP: Monitor is investigating how a mental health trust is run after an employment tribunal found that a trust director was unfairly dismissed after being harassed by the former trust chair.
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Trust that took over Stafford Hospital ‘requires improvement’
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has rated University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust ‘requires improvement’.
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West Midlands acute chief resigns
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of a struggling West Midlands acute trust has resigned with immediate effect.
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Trust launches review after agency spend doubles
WORKFORCE: A West Midlands acute trust has launched a review of its agency spending, after figures revealed it spent double the amount on agency nurses in June than it did in the same month in 2014.
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Staffordshire bodies create ‘commissioning congress’
CONFIGURATION: Commissioners across Staffordshire will come together to create a region-wide transformation programme through the establishment of a ‘commissioning congress’, it has been announced.
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Breast cancer drug remains on CDF after ‘significant concessions’
A breast cancer drug will remain on the list of treatments patients can access through the cancer drugs fund after the manufacturer made ‘significant concessions’ on the price.
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Acute trust pledges to protect specialist children’s service
WORKFORCE: Nottingham University Hospitals Trust is to take on more staff to stop a struggling specialist children’s service from collapsing.
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Updated: NHS England halts cancer drugs working group
A group tasked by NHS England to examine how cancer drugs can be evaluated and commissioned in future has had its work ‘paused’ after just six months in operation.
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Pay review says doctors should lose weekend opt-out
There is a ‘compelling’ case for seven day services in the NHS and medical consultants should lose their contractual opt-out for weekend work, according to an independent pay review.
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Online retail guru to boost NHS use of digital innovations
The internet entrepreneur and cross-bench peer Martha Lane-Fox has been tasked with finding ways to help increase the use of digital innovations in the NHS.
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NHS providers explore taking over Cornish community services
NHS trusts in Cornwall are exploring whether they could provide a suitable home for over 20 community services, HSJ has learned.
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111 and urgent care contracts go to social enterprise
COMMERCIAL: Commissioners have awarded contracts to provide Somerset’s GP out of hours and NHS 111 services to a social enterprise.
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Exclusive: All 111 and out of hours tenders suspended
NHS England has told commissioners to suspend all GP out of hours and NHS 111 procurements while it draws up new rules for creating ‘functionally integrated’ urgent care services, HSJ has learned.
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Executive Summary: New look regulation lurches towards take off
HSJ’s roundup of Tuesday’s key stories
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Social enterprise publishes clinical data via online database
TECHNOLOGY: A social enterprise which provides community services across south London has published anonymised clinical data onto a website created by the Greater London Authority to aid public scrutiny of the way services are run.
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Northern Lincolnshire bodies create elderly care team
Health and social care bodies across Northern Lincolnshire have used a £1.3m tranche of their Better Care Fund money to create a multi-disciplinary team to focus on care for frail elderly patients.
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NHS England announces specialised treatment decisions
NHS England has announced it will begin funding a range of new specialised treatments and drugs, following a consultation process.
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Exclusive: Social enterprise to pull out of Cornish community services
COMMERCIAL: A social enterprise which provides community services across Cornwall and oversees the county’s 14 community hospitals has said that it will not seek an extension to its current contract, which ends in March 2016.