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Pensions propaganda?
The government says many public sector workers will be better off under the changes to the pension scheme. How does this apply to the average NHS employee?
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NewsExclusive: weekend hospital arrivals up to 16pc more likely to die - DH
Patients admitted to NHS hospitals at the weekend are up to 16 per cent more likely to die than those admitted during the week, according to research for the Department of Health.
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HSJ Local
AWP criticised over patient homicides
PERFORMANCE: Avon and Wiltshire Partnership Trust has been criticised for failing in the care of two patients from Swindon who went on to kill people within months of each other.
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HSJ Local
Admission 'surge' caused hike in mixed sex breaches at East Sussex
PERFORMANCE: East Sussex Healthcare Trust’s performance on mixed sex breaches collapsed to the second worst in the country in October due to a “surge in severely ill patients requiring admission”.
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HSJ Local
Buckinghamshire plans reconfiguration programme
STRUCTURE: Commissioners and clinicians in Buckinghamshire are planning to redesign services to develop centres of excellence for specialist care, ensure acute hospitals are sustainable and move more services into the community.
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HSJ Local
Bucks trust struggles on C diff
PERFORMANCE: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is well above its cumulative infection control target for 2011-12.
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HSJ Local
Rise in child TB across Greater Manchester
PERFORMANCE: A rise in child TB cases has led to a renewed emphasis on the disease by Greater Manchester PCTs.
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SupplementsPutting patients first: an HSJ primary care supplement
This week’s special HSJ supplement looks at how patients can benefit from being at the centre of primary care services.
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HSJ Local
Just two Greater Manchester PCTs fall behind financial plans
FINANCE: PCTs across Greater Manchester are making reasonable progress towards their year-end financial targets with just two areas - NHS Bolton and NHS Oldham - behind plan.
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HSJ LocalLeading teaching hospital may have to outsource long-waiters
PERFORMANCE: One of London’s biggest teaching hospitals has called in the Department of Health’s intensive support team after experiencing significant problems hitting the 18-week wait for elective procedures target.
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NewsDH denies tariff adjustment rule revives price competition
The Department of Health has been forced to deny that a measure in the NHS Operating Framework 2012-13 could introduce price competition on elective procedures.
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HSJ Local
Manchester acute trusts fall behind on performance
PERFORMANCE: Acute trusts across Greater Manchester are failing on performance targets and in some areas things have got worse recently, the PCT cluster board heard.
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HSJ Local
AQP areas announced in Manchester
FINANCE: Greater Manchester PCTs have identified podiatry and diagnostics as priorities for introducing any qualified provider.
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CommentDoes the NHS really believe information technology can improve healthcare?
I doubt that anybody within airlines, financial services, or manufacturing goes to meetings to debate whether information technology can improve what they do. It already has, and continues to. Why, then, have we in healthcare grown very sceptical about information technology, asks Richard Smith.
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NewsCQC non-exec to blow the whistle at Mid Staffs inquiry
Two new Care Quality Commission whistleblowers - including one board member - have been called to give evidence to the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust Public Inquiry.
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HSJ Local
Greater Manchester lacks capacity to cope with disease outbreak
PERFORMANCE: Infection control teams in Greater Manchester PCTs would struggle to cope with disease outbreaks over the winter months, the area’s cluster board heard.
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HSJ Local
Manchester PCTs poised to award home oxygen contract
FINANCE: PCTs across the North West are being recommended to approve a contract for Air Liquide (Homecare) Ltd to provide home oxygen services across the region.
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NewsBMA declares full opposition to reforms
Doctors’ leaders have declared all-out opposition to the government’s NHS shake-up amid claims they will give too much influence to the private sector.
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NewsPharma suppliers put export ahead of NHS - Burns
Drugs for NHS patients are being delayed because suppliers make more money by selling medication to eurozone countries, the government has said.
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Comment'This is the kind of disruptive innovation the NHS needs'
The US integrated healthcare system Kaiser Permanente is an example of ‘innovative disruption’ in all its joined-up glory. The King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham highlights some of the benefits a similar system could give the NHS.