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PERFORMANCE: Monitor has invoked its powers of intervention to install a new chairman at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust, following rising concern about the quality of care and leadership at the foundation. […]

The NHS spend on translation and interpretation services is £60,000 a day, according to a report. […]

Money earmarked for the costs of reorganising the NHS could pay to prevent the loss of 6,000 nursing jobs, Labour claims. […]

The appointment of five NHS Commissioning Board executive directors has been announced, including Ian Dalton in the key role of chief operating officer. […]

The government has estimated that bailing out hospital trusts with large PFI repayments could cost £1.5bn. […]

The results of a financial incentive scheme to improve quality do not match up with other quality measures in hospital care, a study has found. […]

The NHS Commissioning Board is working under “strict limits” on what it can do as the government’s Health Bill battles “turbulence” in Parliament, its chair has said. […]

Only six of London’s 18 non-foundation hospital trusts will be viable in their current form in 2014-15, HSJ can reveal. […]

Patients admitted to hospital at weekends have a greater chance of dying than those admitted on a week day, a large-scale review of NHS data has reiterated. […]

The UK’s largest medical royal college has called for the prime minister to scrap the Health and Social Care Bill, branding it “damaging, unnecessary and expensive”. […]

COMMERCIAL: The NHS South West Essex and South East Essex primary care trust cluster is seeking expresions of interest from providers interested in providing an NHS 111 and out of hours service. […]

STRUCTURE: A GP service will be set up at Fareham Community Hospital in Hampshire as the “most suitable option” for providing primary care services in the area. […]

WORKFORCE: The Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth primary care trust cluster was overspent on staff costs by £385,000 at month nine. […]

STRUCTURE: The Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, and Portsmouth primary care trust cluster is courting consultants KPMG in a bid to draw up a business case for its commissioning support service. […]

PERFORMANCE: North Tyneside PCT has highlighted the success of a GP practice which has increased uptake of the seasonal flu vaccine among the eligible population by around 20 percentage points, to achieve the highest figure in the region. […]

The appointment of five NHS Commissioning Board executive directors has been announced, including Ian Dalton in the key role of chief operating officer. […]

The NHS Commissioning Board is working under “strict limits” on what it can do as the government’s Health Bill battles “turbulence” in Parliament, its chair has said. […]

Patients admitted to hospital at weekends have a greater chance of dying than those admitted on a week day, a large-scale review of NHS data has reiterated. […]

The UK’s largest medical royal college has called for the prime minister to scrap the Health and Social Care Bill, branding it “damaging, unnecessary and expensive”. […]

STRUCTURE: The joint chairs of the shadow health and wellbeing board for Surrey have supported the government’s NHS reforms in a letter to the Daily Telegraph. […]

Hospitals that fail to offer bowel cancer patients a full range of appropriate treatments should be fined, a charity has said. […]

New guidance has been published showing how the New Medicine Service and post discharge Medicines Use Reviews can be used to provide a seamless care pathway for patients who transfer from hospital to the community setting. […]

COMMERCIAL: The trust has submitted a planning application for a 70,000 sq ft Liverpool BioInnovation Centre, to provide commercial scale laboratory space to develop new treatments and medical technologies for the market. […]

Legislation meant to end the variable access to drugs in NHS hospitals will be enforced, the health secretary has told the Commons. […]

Leading doctors have called for an end to “incomplete data disclosure” and more robust regulation of information in clinical trials. […]

Government plans to give NHS patients’ details to private firms developing new drugs must give “assurance” that privacy safeguards will be in place. […]

The prime minister David Cameron will today signal controversial moves to boost the economy by sharing NHS data with private healthcare companies. […]

COMMERCIAL: University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust and the University of Birmingham has today announced a joint working agreement to be known as Birmingham Health Partners (BHP). […]

Drugs for NHS patients are being delayed because suppliers make more money by selling medication to eurozone countries, the government has said. […]

Primary care trusts are “misconstruing” official drugs guidance in order to restrict access to treatments, a coalition of patient bodies has warned. […]

PERFORMANCE: The introduction of a new electronic record and patient administration system has caused “significant” problems with outpatient appointments at North Bristol Trust. […]

The NHS spend on translation and interpretation services is £60,000 a day, according to a report. […]

A government consultation on more open use of data has found strong support for increased transparency in public services. But health organisations have urged caution due to the potential for leaks of sensitive information. […]

The NHS Commissioning Board is “likely” to mandate new a set of standards for clinical and social care records in a push to increase efficiency, HSJ has been told. […]

A police investigation has been launched into an allegation of fraud at a foundation trust, HSJ can reveal. […]

FINANCE: A software package that advises GPs when chepaer alternative drugs are available had saved NHS Wiltshire £708,000 as of the end of October. […]

PERFORMANCE: Hundreds of patients waited hours for ambulances in London when call handlers were forced to rely on pen and paper for 15 hours during a software failure, a report seen by HSJ has revealed. […]

PERFORMANCE: Medway Foundation Trust has been trialling a new online “quick-look” performance management tool launched by healthcare information provider Dr Foster Intelligence. […]

COMMERCIAL: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a seven-year contract to Stalis Ltd to supply a new patient administration system. […]

COMMERCIAL: PCTs in West Yorkshire, with the strategic health authority, have engaged consultants to help look at rationalising their data centre services. […]

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The results of a financial incentive scheme to improve quality do not match up with other quality measures in hospital care, a study has found. […]

Only six of London’s 18 non-foundation hospital trusts will be viable in their current form in 2014-15, HSJ can reveal. […]

Patients admitted to hospital at weekends have a greater chance of dying than those admitted on a week day, a large-scale review of NHS data has reiterated. […]

The trust predicting the largest deficit in the country is considering a “wholesale approach to outsourcing corporate functions”, HSJ has discovered. […]

The possibility that fines for C difficile infections will have a “destabilising” effect on some hospitals next year is to be investigated by the Healthcare Financial Management Association. […]

The private provider at the first NHS hospital to be taken over by a private sector firm have set out their vision to turn around its fortunes. […]

Heart failure outcomes remain poor with variations in quality of care across the country and a lack of access to specialist management, according to a major national review. […]

Mergers affecting £1bn of NHS services have been thrown into doubt after a key participant pulled out of the running to take over a neighbour. […]

A health board has been fined after an “entirely avoidable” chain of events resulted in a hospital patient being diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease, the Crown Office has said. […]

Two more private firms have agreed to remove PIP breast implants free of charge. […]

Luis Suarez returns after a lengthy ban but cannot inspire Liverpool to victory as they share a goalless draw with Tottenham. […]

Luis Suarez returns after a lengthy ban but cannot inspire Liverpool to victory as they share a 0-0 draw with Spurs at Anfield. […]

Former FA chief executive David Davies says the governing body is taking England coach Fabio Capello's comments about John Terry being removed as national team captain "very seriously". […]

Gordon Taylor calls Fabio Capello's criticism of the decision to oust John Terry as England captain "bizarre and disappointing". […]

PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor says Fabio Capello's criticism of the FA is "bizarre" and may have affected England's chances at Euro 2012. […]

PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor says Fabio Capello's criticism of the FA is "bizarre" and may have affected England's chances at Euro 2012. […]

More than a million tickets available - all other sports sold out […]

1.5 million football tickets remain available for London 2012 after the sport is identified as the only discipline which has not sold out its allocation […]

Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel is "as confident as he can be at this point" following the official launch of Red Bull's new RB8 car. […]

BBC Scotland uncovers evidence which suggests Rangers owner Craig Whyte may have lied in court. […]

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Mad Cow Diesease: Plans to secretly test 30,000 NHS patients as CJD fears escalate - Experts believe patients who have received more than 80 blood transfusions are most at risk of developing the fatal brain disease as it can be passed on through infected blood. [ read more […]

Health bodies reject NHS reforms - Physiotherapist leaders have joined the Royal College of GPs in calling for the health bill in England to be scrapped, increasing pressure on the government. [BBC Health] […]

Pensioner gets £20k after police smashed his Range Rover's window - Grandfather Robert Whatley, 73, from Monmouthshire, was pulled over in his Range Rover last year and expected the officer to gently knock on his window. [Daily Mail Show Biz and TV] […]

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'At least we've our own currency': Prince Andrew pokes fun at EU nations suffering from collapse of Euro - The Duke of York told entrepreneurs at the Davos summit in Switzerland that foreign firms should invest in Britain, not other European nations, because 'unlike them it is open for business'. read more […]

Solar eruption causes strongest radiation storm for seven years as particles hurtle towards Earth - The solar flare occurred on Sunday and will hit Earth with three different effects at three different times. read more […]

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