All Reconfiguration articles – Page 37
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HSJ Local
Ealing Council to seek judicial review of reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: Ealing Council has begun the process of starting judicial review proceedings against the Shaping a Healthier Future reconfiguration.
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NewsExclusive: Healthcare for London review
HSJ has exclusively published the in-depth review into the flagship reconfiguration initiative
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LeaderCan the NHS still deliver major service change?
A new review raises questions over reconfiguration
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NewsLansley intervention damaged patient care, says Carnall
The former NHS London chief executive has said Andrew Lansley damaged patient care by halting the capital’s large-scale service change programme.
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NewsNHS England plans to lead 'radical' service change
NHS England is planning to continue the health service’s current savings drive after 2015, and to recast it as a programme of “ambitious and radical” service change led by its area teams.
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NewsRoyal College voices concerns over UK paediatric services
Hospital care for sick children at weekends and in evenings needs to be better organised to ensure senior staff are available when needed, according to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
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HSJ Local
Newcastle FT chief exec hits out at 'legal procrastination'
STRUCTURE: The chief executive of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Sir Leonard Fenwick, has issued a statement following the High Court review on children’s heart surgery services.
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Flory: Francis has moved an all-FT NHS back two years
The consequences of the Francis inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire care scandal have pushed back the process of getting all NHS providers to foundation trust status by two years, David Flory has told HSJ.
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NewsLeeds heart unit campaigners urge for investigation
Campaigners fighting to save the children’s heart unit at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) have called on health secretary Jeremy Hunt to launch an investigation into the suspension of surgery at the hospital, describing the decision as “NHS politics at its worst”.
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NewsNHS England to focus future QIPP on 'transformational change'
NHS England has confirmed that the quality, innovation, productivity and prevention savings programme will continue into the next comprehensive spending review period, pledged to set out how major service reconfigurations should be carried out.
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NewsTense wait for Leeds heart op decision
Families and clinicians on both sides of the controversy over the children’s heart unit at Leeds General Infirmary face a tense wait to see whether surgery will resume at the centre as expected this week.
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HSJ LocalA&E performance nosedives after Bucks reconfiguration
PERFORMANCE: The closure of an accident and emergency unit in Wycombe has led to a sharp increase in A&E waiting times at neighbouring hospitals, trust board papers state.
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HSJ Local
Monitor supports Heatherwood and Wexham Park takeover talks
STRUCTURE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust may be put into special administration if talks which would see it merged with another NHS organisation fail.
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Blogs
Patients vs the business case
The NHS is not subject to local democratic accountability. If you want to have more say in what happens to your local hospital maybe you should advocate a transfer to local government
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NewsCarruthers seeks to 'raise the bar' for reconfiguration referrals
Councils will need to provide “more convincing” evidence when they oppose NHS reconfigurations such as hospital closures, according to the health chief in charge of a review on the subject.
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HSJ Local
Leeds campaigners win heart surgery case
STRUCTURE: Campaigners have won a high court challenge over the decision to remove children’s heart surgery services from Leeds.
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SupplementsNHS develops an aquired taste: An M&A roundtable debate
Mergers and acquisitions are firmly on the agenda for the future but have had a patchy record in the health service. HSJ gathered an expert roundtable to wrestle over the key issues.