Royal Devon University Healthcare FT – Page 10
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HSJ Local
Acute trusts seek to establish 'blueprint' for regional locum agencies
COMMERCIAL: Nine South West trusts have embarked on an initiative to bring down the cost of hiring locum doctors, which it hopes will be a “blueprint” for the health service across the country.
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HSJ Local
Local influence over community hospitals at risk, warns Devon trust chief
COMMERCIAL: The leader of a Devon trust has warned that local influence over how a number of its community hospitals are used will lessen if it loses possession of the sites.
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News
£35m nursing tech fund shared among 60 bidders
More than 60 bids by NHS and other care providers have received a share of the second tranche of nursing technology fund, an NHS England director has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Updated: Competition regulator to probe NEW Devon £100m contract award
COMMERCIAL: Competition regulator Monitor has opened an investigation into a Devon clinical commissioning group’s plan to award a community services contract without a tender, a decision one trust has called “wrong” for patients.
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HSJ Local
Relations between Devon health organisations 'strained', TDA chief admits
COMMERCIAL: Relations between a Devon trust and its local clinical commissioning group are ‘strained’, the chief executive of the NHS Trust Development Authority has said.
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News
Exclusive: NHS England appoints director for new care models
HSJ chief executive of the year Samantha Jones will join NHS England this month as director of new models of care for NHS England.
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HSJ Local
NEW Devon presses ahead with procurement plans
COMMERCIAL: A South West clinical commissioning group has agreed to award community services contracts worth more than £90m without going out to tender.
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HSJ Local
Morbidly obese patients face restrictions under new Devon cost cutting plan
FINANCE: A cash strapped clinical commissioning group plans to limit access to routine surgery for obese patients and suspend funding for some non-urgent procedures in a drastic bid to find £26m of in year savings.
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HSJ Local
Devon CCG warns 'services will suffer' due to unaffordable demand
FINANCE: The country’s biggest clinical commissioning group will have to take immediate action to prioritise patient access to services in the face of unaffordable increases in demand, it has warned.
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Supplements
Value in Healthcare Awards 2014
Learn about all the winning projects in HSJ’s celebration of organisations delivering real value
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News
HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards winners revealed
Winners showcase outstanding efficiency and improvement in the NHS
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Supplements
Value in Healthcare Awards: Value and Improvement in Community Health Service Redesign
FinalistsNorthern Devon Healthcare Trust - winnerBarking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge clinical commissioning groups and North East London Foundation TrustBromley HealthcareCore Care LinksEdinburgh Community Health PartnershipImperial College Healthcare Trust, Central London, Hammersmith and Fulham and West London clinical commissioning groups, North West London Commissioning Support Unit and Health Education North ...
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Supplements
Value in Healthcare Awards: Value and Improvement in Financial Services
FinalistsKing’s Health Partners - winnerNorth East Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning GroupNorthern Devon Healthcare TrustKing’s Health Partners: Value based healthcareThe judges said this was a great example of value-based pathways with excellent patient involvement.King’s Health Partners (KHP) has set out to unite financial and quality information in value-based reporting.Working with clinical teams ...
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HSJ Local
Devon provider ‘requires improvement’
PERFORMANCE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust has been rated as “requires improvement” by the Care Quality Commission after inspectors found a raft of concerns, including do not resuscitate forms being filled in without discussion with patients and relatives.
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HSJ Local
Devon procurement plan resisted by providers and local council
A Devon commissioner’s plan to award community services contracts without putting them out to tender has been resisted by competing providers and a local authority.
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HSJ Knowledge
How physios can take the pressure off surgery services
One trust’s spinal surgey unit has benefited from new training
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HSJ Knowledge
Emerging leaders pen the future
An essay competition is helping to encourage the next generation
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News
Revealed: the trusts set to be highlighted for reporting concerns
Six trusts that have been in special measures over the past year are among those set to be named as having a poor culture of reporting patient safety incidents