All articles by Sarah Calkin – Page 9
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NewsHunt safety plans 'will require frontline investment'
Providers will need to invest “significant” time in ensuring frontline staff can deliver the plans to improve patient safety which were announced by the health secretary last week, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ LocalBristol CCG plans £250m community services tender
Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group has approved plans to tender the city’s community health services and said it anticipates “significant” interest in the contract from providers across the country.
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NewsExclusive: 'Cost neutral' Francis policy has cost £2.5m
More than £2.5m is being spent piloting a government scheme to make aspiring student nurses work as healthcare assistants for a year before university courses
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NewsHunt to launch patient safety 'movement' to halve harm
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is expected to use a major speech in the US today to launch a “patient safety movement” aimed at halving rates of avoidable harm in the NHS over the next three years.
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NewsExclusive: Simon Stevens considering new board member
Incoming NHS England chief Simon Stevens is considering appointing a senior NHS management figure to lead on specialised commissioning, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Cornwall integration pioneer planning county-wide rollout
A partnership between the NHS and voluntary sector which is credited with reducing emergency admissions by nearly a third is set to be rolled out across Cornwall over the next 18 months.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: University Hospitals Bristol 'inured' to impact of failings
An adviser to the national review of children’s heart surgery has warned recent failings at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children “echo” those which led to a public inquiry almost 20 years ago.
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NewsExpert group: Leave Francis constitution amendments 'till later'
An expert group set up to review the future of the NHS Constitution has rejected the Francis report’s recommendation the document should be rewritten and has instead said the government should focus on making sure it was “publicised, embedded and applied”.
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NewsFirst three trusts rated in new-style CQC regime
The Care Quality Commission has published its ratings of three hospital trusts, the first to receive judgements under its new inspection regime.
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NewsDuty of candour set to be extended to 100,000 incidents
NHS providers will be required to tell patients about all but the very least serious patient safety incidents under the new statutory duty of candour, if the recommendations of a government commissioned review are adopted into law.
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NewsRichards: CQC must improve inspection consistency
The Care Quality Commission must do more to improve the consistency of its judgements, the chief inspector of hospitals has said. He spoke after it emerged a leading London teaching hospital successfully challenged the regulator’s plan to issue it a warning notice.
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HSJ LocalNew review of children's heart surgery in Bristol
The chair of the high profile public inquiry into paediatric heart surgery in Bristol is to lead a new review into the deaths of a number of children with heart problems at University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust.
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NewsCQC revises intelligent monitoring tool
Acute trusts will get longer to check the data in the Care Quality Commission’s Intelligent Monitoring Tool before it is made public under a series of changes due to be announced by the regulator today.
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NewsMany healthcare assistants start work without training
A quarter of trusts allow healthcare assistants to start work on the wards without undergoing any training for the job, HSJ research reveals.
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NewsImpact of culture change revealed one year after Francis
Staff wellbeing and organisational culture are being taken more seriously
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NewsAlert system will name and shame unsafe providers
The names of organisations that fail to comply with patient safety alerts are to be published online each month as part of a revamped warning system being introduced by NHS England.
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NewsMonitor watching CCG procurement decisions 'closely'
Monitor is closely observing the decisions clinical commissioning groups are making about transforming community services contracts, its chief executive has told HSJ.
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NewsBennett sets out new approach for merger and failure
Monitor’s chief executive has used an HSJ interview to insist the regulator can offer support to foundation trusts to merge without falling foul of the competition authorities.
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NewsCCG backs down in patient involvement procurement row
A clinical commissioning group leading one of the most high profile procurements in the NHS has agreed to publish commercially sensitive documents following a threat of legal action.
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NewsDr Foster founder joins CQC
The Care Quality Commission has appointed one of the founders of health informatics firm Dr Foster Intelligence to advise on how the regulator uses data to monitor health and social care providers.