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News£500m outsourcing deal finalised after confidential settlement
System leaders in Hertfordshire have settled a lawsuit brought by two companies part owned by an NHS trust in a neighbouring area, allowing a £500m pathology contract to be awarded to their preferred supplier.
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News£100m pathology contract outsourced by London acute
A north London acute is outsourcing its pathology services to a public-private partnership in a deal worth £105m.
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HSJ LocalICB sued by trust over £500m deal
A company part-run by an NHS trust has launched a legal challenge against a neighbouring integrated care board over a £500m pathology contract.
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NewsTrusts to award £500m pathology contract after legal challenge dropped
A pharma and diagnostics firm has dropped its bid to reverse a decision by three acute trusts to award a multimillion pound pathology contract to a competitor.
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NewsThree trusts taken to High Court in £475m contract row
A private provider has accused three acute trusts of breaking procurement rules over how they handled bids for a contract worth up to £475m to supply them with managed pathology services.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Flory tasked with getting a grip
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Tech budget raids and wasted millions
Many NHS technology programmes are facing an uncertain future following revelations NHS England’s tech budget is being drastically cut.
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HSJ LocalFlagship merger ‘effectively scrapped’ after ‘wasting millions’
The leader of a flagship ‘hub and spoke’ pathology merger has criticised regulators after the project was effectively dropped due to delays in receiving £31m of capital that was allocated to the scheme in 2018.
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HSJ LocalNHSE pushes large London acute to join pathology network
NHS England is using the prospect of diagnostics funding to push a large London acute trust into joining a pathology network.
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NewsTrust boards instructed to ‘scrutinise’ sepsis data by NHSE
Trust boards should start scrutinising performance against new indicators set out by NHS England this month as part of a national push to iron out unwarranted variation in performance on key sepsis blood tests, according to an NHSE report
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HSJ InteractiveCould the NHS make greater use of remote testing?
A recent HSJ webinar, supported by Medichecks, considered whether it’s viable for more patients to collect more samples remotely for subsequent analysis in laboratories – and what impact such a move might have on patients and services. Claire Read reports
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NewsGovernment warned: Protect covid tests for staff or risk deeper crisis
The national testing system must ensure enough tests are reserved for health and care staff to get quick-turnaround clearance to return to work, as demand surges, senior figures have warned.
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NewsExclusive: Trusts told to ‘urgently’ review mortuary security
NHS England has written to all trusts and told them to ‘urgently’ review the security of their mortuaries, including ensuring all doors are swipe-card controlled and that the units have comprehensive CCTV coverage.
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HSJ PartnersStrategies for faster, more efficient diagnostic services
The NHS carries out an estimated 1.5 billion diagnostic tests a year with diagnostic activity forming part of over 85% of clinical pathways. Richard Craven, CliniSys UK chief executive, explains how regional diagnostics hubs that give clinicians access to test results of all kinds, no matter where a test is ...
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HSJ PartnersWhat can covid testing regimes teach us about how to best approach diagnostics?
Covid has made it necessary to introduce large-scale testing regimes to identify cases of the virus and manage its further spread. So what has the health system learnt or developed that can be used in broader contexts in the years to come?
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NewsUK to import 9m blood tubes under emergency measures, three weeks after US raised alarm
The key supplier of blood tubes to the NHS will bring in an additional 9 million tubes this week from overseas after receiving an emergency authorisation, three weeks after it gained a similar permission in the US.
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NewsNHS England issues target for cutting blood tests
Hospitals must cut their demand for blood collection tubes by at least a quarter and GPs must only order clinically urgent tests for the next three weeks, according to instructions issued by NHS England today.
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News‘Borderline critical’ stock leads to new blood test restrictions
Local NHS organisations are ramping up their efforts to conserve ubiquitous blood collection products as concern grows current measures have not been sufficient and stocks may run even lower.
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NewsNHSE steps up action on blood test tube shortage
Non-essential blood tests should be stopped and trusts and GPs should prioritise genomic tests over others, NHS England has said, as the health service continues to confront global blood collection tube shortages.
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NewsBlood tests rationed amid equipment shortage
Trusts are taking steps to limit blood tests amid a national shortage of blood collection tubes, as the NHS puts out a call to pathology labs for emergency supplies.