{"id":44916,"date":"2014-07-11T12:15:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T12:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=60b17476012bf685eb25cf264f91c402"},"modified":"2014-07-11T12:15:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T12:15:04","slug":"news-story-monitor-concludes-its-review-of-pathology-services-in-the-north-west-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=44916","title":{"rendered":"News story: Monitor concludes its review of pathology services in the north west of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Following the review, Monitor has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/case-merger-of-pathology-services-of-southport-and-ormskirk-hospital-and-st-helens-and-knowsley-teaching-hospitals\">given its advice<\/a> to the NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS <abbr title=\"NHS Trust Development Authority\">TDA<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>The health sector regulator looked at the pathology services in the local area and examined whether the proposed partnership might adversely affect patients.<\/p>\n<p>Monitor found that there is unlikely to be a negative impact as a result of a reduction in choice and competition. It also found that the proposed merger is not likely to reduce incentives for the trusts to improve other services for patients. <\/p>\n<p>The 2 trusts will take the final decision whether to go ahead with the merger in conjunction with the NHS <abbr title=\"NHS Trust Development Authority\">TDA<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed merger of Southport and Ormskirk Hospital and St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals is not likely to have a negative impact on patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}