All Reconfiguration articles – Page 36
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NewsAnalysed: The future of acute services in east Berkshire
This week’s briefing examines the future of acute services at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust
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CommentForget structures, reorganise the incentives
The US provides a model for rapid service change
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NewsCollege urges paediatric reconfiguration
Health services for children must be radically changed or young patients could face serious safety risks, leading doctors have said.
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Analysis: Hunt backs North West reconfigurations
If there was ever a good day for a health secretary to announce his backing for two controversial reconfigurations, last Thursday was probably the day.
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NewsFT merger decision exposes policy confusion
Policy surrounding NHS service change has been labelled a “mess” after the first merger between foundation trusts was blocked on the same day as NHS England’s chief executive demanded radical service reconfiguration nationwide.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: NHS ‘faces £60bn funding gap by 2025’
NHS England demands major service change to close the health service’s “eye-watering” funding gap, NHS England has disclosed to HSJ.
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NewsMonitor issues fresh warning on NHS funding gap
Monitor’s chief executive has said that even if the NHS did everything the regulator could think of to make savings it would not be enough to close the funding gap facing the service by 2021-22.
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CommentNo jam tomorrow for the NHS
The service won’t radically change if there is no chance of success
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NewsReconfiguration rules held up three months after system reformed
The government has refused to publish guidance which has been prepared on how service reconfiguration could be planned in the new NHS system, more than three months after the reforms took effect.
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HSJ Local
Three Birmingham trusts consider co-location
STRUCTURE: A specialist trust in Birmingham is considering moving onto the site of a major local acute hospital as part of a programme of closer working between providers in the city.
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HSJ LocalCouncil goes to judicial review over minor injuries unit move
STRUCTURE: A council is at loggerheads with local NHS bodies after applying for a judicial review to block a plan to move a minor injuries unit to a new facility just two miles away.
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NewsDorrell warns 'Nicholson challenge' will remain in place
Health bosses will have to keep pursuing efficiency and savings after the next general election, the chair of the Commons health select committee has told MPs.
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HSJ Local
Hartlepool begins consultation on critical care shake-up
STRUCTURE: A public consultation on the centralisation of critical care and emergency medicine services at the University Hospital of North Tees has begun.
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HSJ Local
Lewisham reconfiguration decision 'unlawful'
A High Court judge has been urged to overturn an “unlawful” decision to reduce services at a major hospital.
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HSJ Local
Councils in reconfiguration spat
STRUCTURE: A local authority is to seek a judicial review to prevent a minor injuries unit being moved into a neighbouring council’s area.
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NewsBMA calls for regulation of managers
The British Medical Association has called for NHS bosses to be held accountable for hospital failures through a new regulation system.
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NewsRelegate CCGs to advisory role, says Burnham
The shadow health secretary has said clinical commissioning groups should be relegated to an advisory role because councils were more in tune with their local populations than GPs.
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NewsHunt heart unit statement expected imminently
Campaigners fighting to save a children’s heart unit are hoping health secretary Jeremy Hunt will reverse the decision today.
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CommentDelivering a new NHS strategy means busting some myths
We need to have radical service change