All Health Service Journal articles in 24 March 2011
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HSJ Local
NHS Somerset overspends on bariatric services
FINANCE: A £432,000 overspend by NHS Somerset at Taunton and Somerset FT is mainly down to the provision of bariatric services.
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HSJ Local
Reconfiguration halted in NHS Somerset
STRUCTURE: Plans to centralise gynaecological cancer services in the NHS Somerset area have been shelved after they failed to meet the new reconfiguration tests.
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HSJ Local
NHS Somerset signs deal with independent provider
COMMERCIAL: NHS Somerset has awarded a contract to UK Specialist Hospitals Ltd.
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HSJ Local
Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT to cluster with Norfolk
STRUCTURE: NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney will form a cluster with NHS Norfolk as part of plans to merge primary care trusts.
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News
Readmissions payment ban will cost hospitals £790m and create 'perverse incentives' - Confed
NHS hospitals stand to lose around £790m next year from the ban on payment for emergency readmissions, a study by the NHS Confederation has found.
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HSJ Local
NHS Bexley looks to save money on Commissioning Support for London contract
FINANCE: The south-east London primary care trust had, along with the rest of the capital’s PCTs, signed a three-year contract with CSL, the value of which it is now proposed to slash.
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HSJ Local
Trafford PCT seeks short-term caretaker for its provider arm
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust has asked a newly-formed community services trust to take over its provider arm on a short-term contract, while it continues work on its plans for an integrated care organisation (ICO).
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HSJ Local
NHS Cumbria still £7.1m in the red at the end of January
FINANCE: At the end of January the primary care trust was still projecting a substantial deficit for 2010-11, just two months from the end of the financial year.
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HSJ Local
Warwickshire PCT heading for deficit
FINANCE: NHS Warwickshire was overspending by more than £2m with only two months of the financial year remaining.
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HSJ Local
Somerset community care divestment faces three-month delay
STRUCTURE: There is likely to be a three-month delay in authorisation for a new provider of community healthcare in the area because of the volume of referrals to Monitor, NHS Somerset has claimed.
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HSJ Local
NHS Somerset begins personal budget pilot
NHS Somerset has made its first direct payment for a personal health budget, as part of a national pilot programme.
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HSJ Local
A&E pressures at Ashford and St Peter’s
PERFORMANCE: Ashford and St Peter’s experienced significant capacity pressure in accident and emergency during February as a result of winter weather.
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HSJ Local
Efficiency training for managers underway at Ashford and St Peter’s
WORKFORCE: Executives at Ashford and St Peter’s have received leadership training to try and make them more productive.
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HSJ Local
Cambridge UHFT is £3.2m below its planned surplus for the year
FINANCE: Cambridge University Hospital FT has reported a surplus of over £650,000 for the year to date, £3.2m worse than plan.
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HSJ Local
NHS Northamptonshire's final TCS plans presented to SHA
STRUCTURE: NHS Northampton’s transforming community services plans involve a social enterprise, integration with two acute trusts and a mental health trust, and moving services to the local authority.
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HSJ Local
NHS Nottingham City's TCS plans revealed
STRUCTURE: NHS Nottingham City’s plans to separate its community provision from its commissioning functions have been put to board members of NHS East Midlands.
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NewsWest Midlands cluster chiefs announced
NHS West Midlands has announced who will be leading the region’s five primary care trust clusters.
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CommentCan GPs become agents of change, or will they remain gatekeepers?
In my forthcoming book on the NHS and reform, I have devoted a chapter to trying to answer the question of whether GPs can move from gatekeepers to change agents. Andrew Lansley’s reforms pose the same question along with others – do a sufficient number of them want to make ...
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NewsGPs 'to become change agents' - Lord Warner
The government’s planned reforms will “throw down the gauntlet to clinicians and give them their head to produce significant change”, according to the coalition-appointed chair of the Social Care Funding Commission.
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NewsGP appointment frustrations revealed
Hundreds of thousands of people cannot book GP appointments because none are available, or struggle to get through to their surgery on the phone, according to a new survey.