All North East articles – Page 27
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News
HSJ analysis: Fines for breaching A&E target could rise by over a third
Fines levied on hospitals for missing the accident and emergency waiting target could increase by more than 35 per cent under new rules proposed for the coming financial year, HSJ analysis has found.
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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
North East trust to shed payroll jobs by outsourcing service
COMMERCIAL: A North East trust has announced it is outsourcing payroll services to a trust in Lancashire, affecting up to 37 members of staff.
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News
CCGs poised to defy pharma by switching to cheaper, unlicensed drug
Clinical commissioning groups across England are mulling the use of an unlicensed drug which could save the NHS millions of pounds, HSJ has learned
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HSJ Local
PF2 approvals process 'not fit for purpose', hospital chief warns
COMMERCIAL: The Treasury’s approval process for the private finance 2 programme has been criticised by a hospital chief executive whose trust was forced to halt plans to build a new hospital.
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Comment
Monitor will not stand in the way of innovation
We support developing new forms of NHS organisation
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News
Stevens predicts 'incredibly tough' year for NHS
The chief executive of NHS England has warned that next year will be “incredibly tough” for the NHS, leaving areas which already have “deep problems” with little chance of recovering.
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HSJ Knowledge
The future for specialists is beyond a hospital’s four walls
Specialists can support and train GPs and nurses
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HSJ Partners
Support end of life care at home through partnership working
Marie Curie makes a difference in Durham and Darlington
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News
FTs will resist forced expenditure on primary care
Foundations trusts will ‘furiously resist’ any attempt to push them into ploughing their accumulated surpluses into primary care as envisaged by the NHS Five Year Forward View
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News
Patients 'denied treatments' because of 'Kafkaesque' commissioning regime
Patients are being denied access to life changing treatments because parts of NHS England’s “Kafkaesque” commissioning regime appear to have ground to a halt, clinicians and charities have warned
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Comment
Rehabilitation is not just an 'add on'
Recovery should be an integral element of a patient’s care pathway
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Comment
Falls prevention: how to slash the NHS's £2bn bill
A quarter of ambulance callouts are for falls
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News
Children's heart surgery review 'put centres in competition with each other'
The controversial review of children’s heart surgery in Leeds and Newcastle pitched trusts into an acrimonious competition, a report has concluded
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HSJ Local
Foundation trust 'pauses' development of new hospital
STRCUTURE: North Tees and Hartlepool Foundation Trust has shelved a plan to build a new hospital until after the next general election.
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News
'New care models' to cover half of England
More than half of England should be covered by new models of providing care, such as hospitals running GP practices, under a major shift proposed by national NHS leaders
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News
Private providers used sparingly in summer waiting list work
Private providers treated fewer than one in 10 of the patients left on NHS waiting lists for more than 18 weeks during the government’s summer drive to cut queues, HSJ analysis reveals.
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Supplements
Top chief executives roundtable: Inspire staff to care day after day
The final HSJ Top Chief Executives roundtable
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HSJ Local
North East ambulance service appoints chief exective
WORKFORCE: The North East Ambulance Services Foundation Trust has appointed Yvonne Ormston as its new chief executive.
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HSJ Local
North Durham CCG appoints chair
WORKFORCE: David Smart has been appointed clinical chair of North Durham Clinical Commissioning Group.