SERVICES: South Tyneside CCG is planning to stop commissioning a minor injuries unit at its local trust – because it duplicates what is already available for patients at a walk-in clinic.
It is also planning to review urgent care provision, including GP out of hours services with the aim of streamlining urgent care services with a single point of access.
April 2013
A long serving hospital chief executive has been dismissed following a disciplinary hearing, HSJ has learned.
More than half of the 29 proposed pathology networks comprising acute and specialist NHS trusts have yet to agree on a model to reconfigure their laboratory services, eight months after the initial deadline passed.
The NHS has today won a landmark legal battle against two international pharmaceutical giants which could save the health service hundreds of millions of pounds a year.
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