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HSJ Local
Major trust proposes ‘referral only’ emergency care service for walk-in patients
Walk-in patients will be unable to access emergency care at a major hospital trust without a referral from a colocated urgent treatment centre, its chief executive has told HSJ .
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HSJ Local
CMA clears acute trust mega merger after two months
The Competition and Markets Authority has cleared the planned merger of two acute trusts in Liverpool after the first stage of its approval process.
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News
‘System issue’ leaves trusts in the dark over savings from flagship project
NHS trusts do not yet know how much they can expect in savings from a new national procurement model thanks to a “system issue”.
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HSJ Local
Chair of challenged STP to stand down
The independent chair of the Mid and South Essex Sustainability and Transformation Partnership will stand down later this year.
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News
Exclusive: Genomic trusts named but 18 months from full operation
Seven hub trusts and 27 partners have been selected to be part of a high profile new genomic test network, but will not be fully operational for a further 18 months.
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Comment
Productive and unproductive organisational change: a view from within
With mergers of CCGs picking up, Bie Nio (Pauline) Ong notes that for any organisational change to be successful it should focus more on people rather than just structure
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News
David Nicholson: NHS efficiency 'paid the price' for Lansley reforms
The NHS “paid the price” for the Lansley reforms by losing sight of important efficiency programmes as senior managers were left “running around applying for jobs and changing structures”, the health service’s former head has said.
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HSJ Local
Virgin Care set to lose children's service contract to NHS consortium
Virgin Care is likely to lose a children’s contract worth hundreds of millions of pounds as commissioners are set to name an NHS consortium as preferred bidders.
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HSJ Local
Acute reconfiguration to go ahead after CCG wins judicial review
Plans to reconfigure acute services and merge two NHS trusts have been boosted after a judicial review was dismissed by a High Court judge.
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News
Elective operations moved to new hospital ahead of winter
A Kent trust is moving elective work and creating two new theatres in an attempt to avoid cancelling operations this winter.
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News
Major review of clinical services after trust mega merger
One of the largest hospital trusts in the country is carrying out a major clinical services review that could lead to the centralisation of more than a dozen services.
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News
Hancock to target NHS’s ‘very, very old school management’ culture
Matt Hancock accused the health service of showing a lack of respect for staff and having “very, very old school management which make it far less pleasant than it should be to work in the NHS”.
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HSJ Local
Major reconfiguration aims to ease financial pressure
Leaders in the north east are drawing up plans to shake up emergency and elective care services as part of a second wave of hospital reconfiguration due for consultation next year.
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HSJ Knowledge
Leadership Q&A: NHS RightCare
Professor Matthew Cripps, national director of NHS RightCare, explains how a number of roles, including the role of knowledge management facilitator, will give you the opportunity to work at the forefront of the NHS Improvement programme
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HSJ Knowledge
Value in Healthcare podcast: an ambulance service revolution
East Midlands Ambulance Service Trust talks to HSJ about how it transformed local ambulance services by partnering with Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service and Lincolnshire Integrated Voluntary Emergency Services (LIVES).
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News
DH defends reconfiguration process after foreign secretary's 'intervention'
The Department of Health has defended the national review system for NHS reconfiguration proposals after a local councillor claimed the foreign secretary had lobbied officials involved in the controversial plan.
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News
Major pathology reorganisation to go ahead after OFT all clear
The NHS’s biggest pathology reorganisation will take place in May, after the Office of Fair Trading ruled it would not be investigating the plan further.
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HSJ Local
CCG concerned at plan to centralise cardiac services at Barts
STRUCTURE: An east London clinical commissioning group has expressed doubt over plans to centralise specialist cardiac services at Barts Health Trust because of “performance and quality” concerns.
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HSJ Local
Mental health trust 'implementing value based healthcare'
STRUCTURE: Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust has begun a programme to redesign its mental health services based on the concept of “value based healthcare”.