Hospital chief executive steps down due to ‘health’

Hospital chief executive steps down due to ‘health’ The chief executive of St Andrew’s Healthcare in Northamopton has retired early for health reasons. Northampton Chronicle and Echo

Transforming community services: learning from previous mistakes

Transforming community services: learning from previous mistakes Community services make up a large part of NHS activity, from chronic disease management and intensive rehabilitation to health visiting and school nursing. Yet years of initiatives, policy ideas and fads have left a legacy of highly complex, narrowly focused and often poorly co-ordinated services, making the system difficult to understand and navigate, even for professionals. So, with an ongoing ambition to shift care out of hospitals and closer to people’s homes, what is needed to transform community services?

TPP launches Mobile Working

TPP launches Mobile Working TPP has launched a new mobile version of SystmOne, which is optimised for touch screens and available on and off-line. E-Health Insider

NHS trusts ranked on clinical IT

NHS trusts ranked on clinical IT The first national table ranking NHS trusts in their use of clinical IT systems has been launched by EHI Intelligence, in partnership with NHS England. E-Health Insider

CCG allocation growth projections 2016/17 to 2018/19

CCG allocation growth projections 2016/17 to 2018/19 This guidance is intended to support commissioners who are currently developing their five years strategic plans. It sets out some high level planning assumptions that CCGs can use when considering how to project growth in allocations in years three to five of the planning period. NHS England

Adults 'unaware of NHS data plans'

Adults 'unaware of NHS data plans' Fewer than a third of adults in England recall getting an a leaflet about changes to the handling of medical records, a poll for the BBC suggests. BBC News

Community services have been neglected

Community services have been neglected The system is too complex and badly organised. Health Service Journal

Special measures update report

Special measures update report This update report finds that significant progress has been made turning around some of England’s most challenged hospitals. Monitor

Papworth hospital's future in doubt after Treasury intervention

Papworth hospital's future in doubt after Treasury intervention Heart and lung hospital's planned Cambridge move caught up in 'NHS politics' that may force partnership with loss-making trust.

The future of the world-renowned Papworth hospital is in doubt because it is being prevented by the Treasury from moving to a new centre of medical excellence in Cambridge.

Instead of consolidating its reputation as a pioneering heart and lung hospital at the forefront of medical innovation, Papworth may instead be forced into a shotgun partnership with the NHS's most loss-making foundation trust.

NHS adviser Sir Stuart Rose has private health link

NHS adviser Sir Stuart Rose has private health link

The former Marks & Spencer’s boss appointed by Jeremy Hunt to advise on improving the NHS could “make a fortune” from hospital takeovers by private companies, the country’s biggest union has claimed. The Independent

See also:

• M&S's pastel shades won't suit the NHS The Guardian

NHS hospitals have their worst week yet this winter

NHS hospitals have their worst week yet this winter NHS hospitals have their worst week yet this winter, figures show. The Daily Telegraph

See also:

• Bad week for A&E: Worst performance since April 2013 The Independent
• A&E waiting times in England prompt Labour to warn of NHS winter crisis The Guardian