Trust to face legal challenge over A&E closure – Health Service Journal<\/strong> London trusts seek major savings through pathology consolidation – Health Service Journal<\/strong> ‘Outstanding’ CCG announces \u00a38m savings target – Health Service Journal<\/strong> STPs must not ‘starve services and force clinicians to do more with less’ – NHE<\/strong> Guide for clinical audit leads –\u00a0 Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP)<\/strong>
\nLEGAL: United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust could face a legal challenge against its decision to partially close the accident and emergency department at Grantham and District Hospital.<\/p>\n
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\nSTRUCTURE: Three trusts in north west London have decided to consolidate their pathology services in a bid to save money.<\/p>\n
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\nFINANCE: A Yorkshire clinical commissioning group rated as outstanding last month has announced it needs to make \u00a38.4m savings this year.<\/p>\n
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\nThe government must not use the new sustainability and transformation plans (STPs)<\/a> as a vehicle to \u201cstarve services and force clinicians to do more with less\u201d, the chair of the BMA\u2019s GPs committee has said. Dr Chaand Nagpaul noted that the much-anticipated STPs could provide an opportunity for health and social care…<\/p>\n
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\nThis guide <\/a>is intended to support clinicians who are responsible for leading clinical audit in clinical services and at senior levels in healthcare organisations. This is an update to the previous guide for clinical audit leads which was published by HQIP in 2011.<\/p>\n
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