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George Eliot hospital NHS trust is considering outsourcing services to Circle, which already runs Hinchingbrooke hospital A Warwickshire NHS trust is in talks with potential partners over the possible privatisation of some hospital services. The George Eliot hospital NHS trust, based in Nuneaton, said...
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Specially trained paramedics to assess whether they can treat patients out of hospital in plan to improve 999 response rates East Midlands ambulance service trust is piloting a new project that allows specially trained paramedics to decide whether patients should be treated at home, or referred to a...
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Staffordshire county council plans to transfer 1,000 adult social care employees to NHS to create the UK's biggest integrated health and social care provider Staffordshire county council plans to transfer nearly 1,000 adult social care staff to the NHS in what will be the UK's biggest integrated...
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Failings were found in many of those involved in Mid Staffordshire but it was also a total system failure, says Shaun Lintern who has reported on the story since it began More than two years after the scandal of poor care at Stafford Hospital was exposed the reverberations from what happened there are...
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Software firm Alert will no longer deploy its electronic patient solution at CircleBath Hospital Circle Health and Alert have "mutually agreed to end their partnership", it has been revealed. The Portuguese software firm had a contract with private healthcare provider Circle Health to implement...
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East Midlands trust advertises 15 year informatics deal which may involve other NHS organisations University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) trust is looking for a commercial partner to transform IT and communications for itself and other local health service organisations. It has published a framework...
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Patient data from primary care and mental health should be available to acute trusts, says head of foundation trust The health service will continue to have gaps in its knowledge on patients, stopping it from providing them with the best and safest service, until it joins up all its data on each individual...
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Job moves: chief executive Jeff James leaves Wiltshire and Bath primary care trust cluster while QEH King's Lynn appoints Patricia Wright as boss Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals foundation trust has said that its chief executive Nik Patten has left "to pursue career opportunities elsewhere"...
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Staff at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire trust accidentally dropped medical records in public bin University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire trust breached the Data Protection Act by twice losing patients' medical records, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said...
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National Programme for IT supplier refunds most of an advance received from the government in April Computer Services Corporation (CSC) has returned £170m to NHS Connecting for Health , reports The Register. The NHS made a £200m payment to CSC on 1 April this year, intended to cover the projected costs...
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Job moves: NHS Midlands and East and NHS North have both appointed senior staff, while Julie Burgess leaves Heatherwood hospital and Birmingham Women's hospital takes on senior staff NHS Midlands and East strategic health authority cluster has appointed five directors to its board, just before the...
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Job moves: Emma Goddard starts her role as the new chief operating officer of Bedford hospital trust and Peter Gordon joins NHS Surrey as a non executive director Penny Venables has been appointed chief executive of Worcestershire acute hospitals trust. Venables, who is currently head of the Royal Orthopaedic...
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Job moves: Sheila Adams-O'Shea leaves North Community health and care trust Sir Stephen Moss will step down as chairman of Mid Staffordshire foundation trust on 31 January 2012. "By the end of January 2012 I will have been at Mid Staffs for three years and I have decided that the time is right...
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Job moves: Cluster boss leaves after only six months in the job. Also, North Bristol's head Ruth Brunt announces her retirement The chief executive of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire primary care trust cluster, Sonia Mills, has announced her departure, only six months after taking the role. Clusters...
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University College London, Imperial College and Leicester University are carrying out research on the role of movements with people that have persistent back pain Researchers at three universities in England are trialling computer systems based on gaming technology that may offer relief to people with...