All Reconfiguration articles – Page 34
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NewsOFT to rule on key pathology mergers as another project collapses
Fresh evidence has emerged of the impact competition probes are having on plans to reconfigure services after Office of Fair Trading investigations were cited as barriers to two major pathology reorganisations.
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NewsFTN urges Hunt to prioritise trust sustainability over competition
The Foundation Trust Network has urged Jeremy Hunt to prioritise trusts’ financial and clinical sustainability over concerns relating to competition.
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NewsPlaid Cymru demands paperless health service
Paper records for hospital patients should be scrapped and replaced with iPads, Plaid Cymru’s health spokeswoman has said.
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NewsPoliticians challenged to back service change ahead of election
Politicians and political parties will be put on the spot in the run-up to the 2015 general election to support major changes in the health service, under a plan developed by the NHS Confederation.
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NewsMonitor seeks solution to competition impasse
Monitor is in with talks with the Office of Fair Trading to try to prevent trusts which want to merge from facing drawn out inquiries under competition law, HSJ has been told.
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NewsGovernment called on to strengthen controversial failure regime
The government has been asked to strengthen the NHS failure regime so regulators can recommend changes to services and structures across several providers.
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LeaderHunt must show he is in it for the long haul to sustain the NHS
Health secretary needs to think beyond 2015 election
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NewsNeighbouring trusts go through 14 chief executives in five years
Two neighbouring trusts that had been considering a merger have seen five substantive and nine interim or acting chief executives over the past five years, an HSJ/Capsticks survey reveals.
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HSJ Local
Hospital unit closure challenged
A council is to mount a legal challenge over the closure of maternity and A&E units that David Cameron once vowed to save.
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CommentChris Calkin: Closing the value gap
The NHS needs to help the public better understand the problems facing a modern health service
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NewsConcern over Monitor's Bristol 'merger' decision
Monitor has concluded that quality improvements borne of a recent reconfiguration of acute services in Bristol are not sufficient to outweigh the loss of patient choice resulting from the “merger”. The competition regulator said the decision would have “important considerations” for the “wider health system”.
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NewsWales braced for hospital care review decision
A panel of experts is set to reveal its findings on divisive proposals to overhaul hospital services in west Wales.
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NewsRoyal college to say hospital reconfiguration is 'inevitable'
Reconfiguration of hospital services is “inevitable” if better standards of hospital care are to be achieved, a major Royal College of Physicians report is expected to say.
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HSJ Local
Trust responds to Keogh by centralising complex surgery
STRUCTURE: North Cumbria University Hospitals will tomorrow take the first steps towards centralising all of its complex surgery onto one site, at the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle.
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NewsRevealed: Second hospital could be franchised to private firm
The Department of Health and Treasury have approved a process that could lead to a second district general hospital trust being franchised to a private company.
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NewsHospital chief executive resigns over A&E performance
The chief executive of Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust has resigned following problems with emergency department performance.
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HSJ Local
Monitor given more time to consider Bristol service swaps
STRUCTURE: The Department of Health has granted Monitor more time to consider whether the benefits of service swaps between Bristol’s two acute trusts outweigh the loss of competition.
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NewsBoris Johnson: 'The mayoralty should have a bigger role in healthcare'
The mayor of London has used an HSJ interview to vow to back hospital reconfiguration projects that have the support of clinicians.
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NewsTax rises 'needed to pay for NHS' says public
More than half of patients believe taxes should rise to ensure the NHS can continue to provide healthcare in the long term, a survey suggests.
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CommentDon't be deceived by the rhetoric of reconfiguration
Picking apart the devices being used to warp the debate