Health Service Journal
Mental health
Stories with this category.
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New tracking system helps learning disability patients
23-May-2012
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CQC finds minor concern at Littlebrook Hospital
21-May-2012
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New chief executive for South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
21-May-2012
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Royal college criticises SHA for moving mental health funds
17-May-2012
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Derbyshire IAPT services on move
15-May-2012
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Memory service gains national accreditation
11-May-2012
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Norfolk and Suffolk FT wins £17m contract
11-May-2012
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Contingency funds secure surplus at Birmingham and Solihull MH trust
11-May-2012
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Somerset Partnership reopens mental health ward
4-May-2012
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Trust finalises quality strategy
4-May-2012
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Mental health trust wins substance misuse contracts
4-May-2012
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Mental health unit commended for design
1-May-2012
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Sussex Partnership lauds research programme
30-Apr-2012
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Sussex faces increasing depression and budget pressures
30-Apr-2012
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Institute of Mental Health opens new £7m centre
30-Apr-2012
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Warwickshire nurses create 'diabetes listener' service
30-Apr-2012
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CQC criticises Kent and Medway assessment service
26-Apr-2012
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SHA's proposed cut to mental health funding 'disgraceful'
26-Apr-2012
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Chair of troubled mental health trust resigns
25-Apr-2012
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CQC finds Surrey and Borders compliant following 'mouse' incident
23-Apr-2012
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Central and North West London Foundation Trust launches recovery college
23-Apr-2012
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Staff urged to open up on feelings
19-Apr-2012
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Sussex partnership launches ‘unique self-help resource’
19-Apr-2012
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Devon Partnership reports a year with no mixed sex breach
19-Apr-2012
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IT contract signed by Sussex Partnership
16-Apr-2012
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Derbyshire Healthcare spells out mandatory standards of care
3-Apr-2012
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Dementia professor to be appointed
3-Apr-2012
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Lowest flu jab coverage in North for Greater Manchester West staff
30-Mar-2012
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Mental health shake-up in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
30-Mar-2012
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IT savings for Kent and Medway partnership
26-Mar-2012
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Kent and Medway partnership behind on 28 day re-admission target
26-Mar-2012
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Patient ‘passport’ launched at East Kent Hospitals
26-Mar-2012
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RDASH foundation trust appoints medical directors
16-Mar-2012
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Colds and flu drive up Sussex Partnership sickness absence
16-Mar-2012
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Virgin and Serco on shortlist for Devon children's services
15-Mar-2012
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DNA rates as high as 15% in some parts of mental health trust's service
15-Mar-2012
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Medic invoice blamed for agency spend rise at Sussex FT
15-Mar-2012
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South London and Maudsley reports reduced surplus
15-Mar-2012
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Sussex Partnership FT opens two more centres
15 March 2012
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East Anglian LD units to trial staff uniform
13-Mar-2012
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Sussex Partnership just about in surplus in Jan
12-Mar-2012
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Sussex Partnership FT names preferred provider for IT contract
12-Mar-2012
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Sussex Partnership falling behind on savings
12-Mar-2012
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Suicide verdict after Sussex Partnership death
5-Mar-2012
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Surrey and Borders vows to investigate ‘rat attack’ claims
5-Mar-2012
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Performance improving at Avon and Wiltshire
2-Mar-2012
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AWP reaches agreement in council tendering row
2-Mar-2012
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Southern Health to merge with Ridgeway Partnership
2-Mar-2012
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Integrating mental health and substance misuse services
2-Mar-2012
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FT consultation starts in Leicestershire
1-Mar-2012
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Unique hybrid finance model planned for trust's PFI
29-Feb-2012
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AQP risks and benefits assessed by Notts Healthcare
27-Feb-2012
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Staffing shortage being tackled in Leicestershire
27-Feb-2012
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18 week issues at Lincs partnership
27-Feb-2012
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Lincs partnership predicts strong finish to financial year
27-Feb-2012
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Northants FT ahead on budget plan
27-Feb-2012
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Nottinghamshire Healthcare ups surplus forecast
27-Feb-2012
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Rise in patient stays at Leicestershire partnership
27-Feb-2012
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CQC finds moderate concerns Notts mental health trust
27-Feb-2012
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Surplus at risk in Dudley and Walsall
27-Feb-2012
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Mobile device mooted by Dudley and Walsall
27-Feb-2012
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2gether appoints GP to board
17-Feb-2012
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Older people's inpatient unit to close
17-Feb-2012
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NHS Bristol to tender for new mental health provider
16-Feb-2012
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Mental health provider under scrutiny in the South West
16 February 2012
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Somerset Partnership has addressed CQC concerns
15-Feb-2012
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Sickness and absence rates among forensic staff in Nottinghamshire reach peak
15-Feb-2012
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Nottinghamshire Healthcare's delayed transfers amongst highest in country
15-Feb-2012
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Community engagement strategy for Kent and Medway Partnership
13-Feb-2012
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East Kent Hospitals launches ‘passport’ for LD patients
13-Feb-2012
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AWP rejects clinicians bid to set up a social enterprise
10-Feb-2012
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Southern Health reconfiguration 'paused' after concerns raised
3-Feb-2012
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Kent and Medway cuts deficit with asset sale
3-Feb-2012
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Sussex Partnership opens new secure unit
1-Feb-2012
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Two London mental health trust bosses announce departure
26-Jan-2012
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Dorset mental health services failed to protect mother from her son
19-Jan-2012
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Two mental health trusts criticised over homicide
19-Jan-2012
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Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership surplus hits £1.6m
18-Jan-2012
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Chief executive of mental health trust resigns
17-Jan-2012
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Sussex Partnership is top trust in Stonewall equality index
17-Jan-2012
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Berkshire Healthcare saves £610,000 through vacancy freezes
13-Jan-2012
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Worcestershire Health and Care struggles to recruit medics
11-Jan-2012
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Mersey Care books £5.4m cost reductions to end of November
10-Jan-2012
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Sheffield pioneers community and mental health user experience plan
6-Jan-2012
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New chief exec appointed by KMPT
4-Jan-2012
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2gether ahead on surplus
3-Jan-2012
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Review finds Herefordshire mental health services understaffed
3-Jan-2012
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Savings surplus predicted by Dudley and Walsall
21-Dec-2011
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Hounslow council to tender out £2m of mental health services
20-Dec-2011
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Sussex Partnership receives royal approval for hospital food
19-Dec-2011
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Coventry and Warwickshire MH trust on track for FT status
19-Dec-2011
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West London Mental Health Trust to cut 110 posts at Broadmoor
19-Dec-2011
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PCT cluster chief exec to join mental health trust
19-Dec-2011
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Two senior layoffs cost Berkshire Healthcare £300,000
14-Dec-2011
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Berkshire Healthcare set to smash surplus target
14-Dec-2011
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Southern Health releases reserves to plug deficit
13-Dec-2011
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Fire at Eastbourne psychiatry unit
12-Dec-2011
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New mental health service in Hastings and Rother
12-Dec-2011
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Kent and Medway Partnership launches new hospital liaison service
9-Dec-2011
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TEWV struggles on some targets
8-Dec-2011
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5pc sickness target proves troublesome for Tyne, Esk and Wear Valleys
7-Dec-2011
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North Eastern mental health foundation trust has £2m surplus
7-Dec-2011
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Psychological therapies and diagnostics to be opened to any qualified provider in Cheshire
7-Dec-2011
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Cornwall Partnership governance risk downgraded
2-Dec-2011
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Eleven homicides investigated at AWP
1-Dec-2011
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Length of stay threatens savings in the South
1 December 2011
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Ridgeway partnership has lowest financial risk rating
29-Nov-2011
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AWP criticised over patient homicides
25-Nov-2011
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Chair of Norfolk mental health trust reappointed
23-Nov-2011
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New chair for North Staffs mental health trust
22-Nov-2011
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Somerset Partnership fails to find GP for senior post
17-Nov-2011
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Pennine Care launches mental health service for veterans
16-Nov-2011
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Mental Health trust cleared in murder review
8-Nov-2011
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North Yorkshire and York military mental health service shortlisted
3-Nov-2011
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'Very high risk' NHS Devon will fail to achieve savings plans
1-Nov-2011
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Medic appointed as Cambridgeshire and Peterborough FT chief
1-Nov-2011
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Norfolk and Waveney FT signs off delayed merger
1-Nov-2011
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Cornwall names AQP services
26-Oct-2011
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Zero mixed sex breaches in September for Kent and Medway Partnership
25-Oct-2011
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No September mixed sex breaches for Surrey and Borders Partnership
21-Oct-2011
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Sussex Partnership records zero mixed sex breaches for September
21-Oct-2011
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Drop in patient information performance at Kent and Medway Partnership
19-Oct-2011
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Kent and Medway Partnership seeking two senior execs
19-Oct-2011
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Sharp rise in patient safety incidents reported at Cheshire and Wirral FT
19-Oct-2011
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Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
17-Oct-2011
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New inpatient unit to open at Suffolk MH trust
14-Oct-2011
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London mental health trusts 'unfairly targeted' for savings
13-Oct-2011
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Kent and Medway refutes food cost figure
12-Oct-2011
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FT will provide mental health and learning disability services in Leeds and York
12-Oct-2011
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Commissioner had concerns about patient handover at Oxleas
11-Oct-2011
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NHS Somerset delegates community and mental health commissioning
11-Oct-2011
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NHS Greenwich asks Belmarsh to represent patients after deaths in custody
11-Oct-2011
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Kent launches new mental health website
10-Oct-2011
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South Essex rehab reconfiguration plan gets support
10-Oct-2011
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UK’s first mental health ‘recovery college’ opens in SW London
7-Oct-2011
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BSMHFT appoints director of psychological services
6-Oct-2011
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Stoke-on-Trent CCG makes new appointments
6-Oct-2011
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Green light for £2m investment at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership
6-Oct-2011
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New facility to open at Suffolk Mental Health Partnership
6-Oct-2011
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Southern Health slips on CIP
5-Oct-2011
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Southern Health over target despite admissions cut
5-Oct-2011
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Surrey and Borders Partnership appoints non-execs
3-Oct-2011
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Sussex Partnership announces £3m upgrade of low secure facilities
29-Sep-2011
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Sussex Partnership directors pledge to balance books
29-Sep-2011
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Surrey and Borders Partnership plans new LD treatment centre
28-Sep-2011
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2gether FT grown by 25 per cent
26-Sep-2011
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Cornwall Partnership wants to be single learning disabilities provider
23-Sep-2011
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Change of plan for Bassetlaw community services
22-Sep-2011
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Lancashire Care FT revises reconfiguration blueprint, cutting planned beds by 298
21-Sep-2011
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Warwickshire PCT plans rise in psychological therapy referrals
20-Sep-2011
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Bradford District Care Trust seeking foundation status
15-Sep-2011
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Kent and Medway Partnership ‘mostly comparable’ with other trusts
14-Sep-2011
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Older people’s unit opens in Devon after £1.5m refurbishment
13-Sep-2011
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NEDs sought by Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber FT
13-Sep-2011
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Derbyshire Healthcare specialist unit gains quality accreditation
13-Sep-2011
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Four in five satisfied with IAPT at Suffolk Mental Health Partnership
12-Sep-2011
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New prison service launched by Surrey and Borders Partnership
12-Sep-2011
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South West Yorks nurse to advise NICE
12-Sep-2011
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New chair for Cumbria Partnership
9-Sep-2011
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Southern Health proposes two mental health hospital closures
8-Sep-2011
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South Essex Partnership completes takeover of Beds community services
6-Sep-2011
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North Staffs launches 24 hour liaison team
6-Sep-2011
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Sussex Partnership wins research grant
5-Sep-2011
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Proposals to change mental health services across North Staffs
1-Sep-2011
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A new name for Leeds Partnerships NHS FT
26-Aug-2011
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Health and social care chiefs sign up to ‘get it right’ for learning disability
26-Aug-2011
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Construction contract awarded for Broadmoor
25-Aug-2011
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Derbyshire consults on talking therapies service
24-Aug-2011
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Mental health trust moots takeover of district general hospital estate
23-Aug-2011
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New director of finance for Oxford Health
23-Aug-2011
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Oxford Health finalises corporate services move
23-Aug-2011
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North East London FT detox unit has one week to break even
23-Aug-2011
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South London and Maudsley to cut £7.5m-worth of posts
23-Aug-2011
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NHS Lewisham memory service aiming for 500 referrals this year
23-Aug-2011
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Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership overspending in 'some staff areas'
22-Aug-2011
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Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership forced to plug CIP gap
22-Aug-2011
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Lincolnshire Partnership only mental health trust still breaching mixed sex rules
19-Aug-2011
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Coventry and Warwickshire MH trust creates new matron roles
19-Aug-2011
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Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership pilots patient safety programme
19-Aug-2011
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North Staffordshire consults on mental health service changes
17-Aug-2011
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Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust opens new rehab unit
16-Aug-2011
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Surrey dementia tool to help local authorities
15-Aug-2011
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Coventry nurses develop care pathway for learning disabilities
15-Aug-2011
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Greater Manchester West scores highly in service user survey
11-Aug-2011
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5 Boroughs scores highly for involvement of service users’ families in CQC survey
11-Aug-2011
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Interim chair put in place at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership
10-Aug-2011
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North East Lincs social enterprise joins healthy workplace programme
9-Aug-2011
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Oxleas wins prison health contract
8-Aug-2011
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Kent and Medway Partnership appoints interim chief
8-Aug-2011
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Manchester Mental Health seeks new IT system
2-Aug-2011
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Women over-represented among Manchester Mental Health and Social Care members
2-Aug-2011
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Tees, Esk and Wear MH buys £4.3m data system
26-Jul-2011
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Leeds Partnerships FT seeks new name
26-Jul-2011
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SHA backs formal arbitration on Suffolk mental health contract
22-Jul-2011
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Child dies in care of Cornwall Partnership
20-Jul-2011
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Northamptonshire Healthcare loses sensitive data
18-Jul-2011
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Devon Partnership extends prison contract
18-Jul-2011
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Sussex Partnership meeting all ‘priority indicators’
15-Jul-2011
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Southern Health faces 7.5 per cent CIP
4-Jul-2011
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Southern Health holds vacancies ahead of service redesign
1-Jul-2011
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Southern Health misses performance targets and reports overspend
1-Jul-2011
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Sussex Partnership faced with fallout from closure of private unit
29-Jun-2011
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East Kent Hospitals University signs Mencap charter
29-Jun-2011
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Non-executive director appointed at Nottinghamshire Healthcare
29-Jun-2011
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Seventeen South East Coast provider contracts signed off late
28-Jun-2011
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CIP concern at Suffolk Mental Health Trust
28-Jun-2011
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Oxfordshire learning disability trust plans merger
27-Jun-2011
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Information governance target 'unrealistic', says Oxfordshire trust
24-Jun-2011
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Savings target already proving problem for Sussex Partnership FT
22-Jun-2011
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FT chief exec returns to work and praises care at local acute trust
22-Jun-2011
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Specialist mental health advice service for GPs piloted in Sussex
22-Jun-2011
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Norfolk and Waveney 'holds vacancies' to make savings
22-Jun-2011
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Suffolk Mental Health Partnership 'heading to arbitration' over IAPT
22-Jun-2011
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Sussex Partnership FT inherits 250 staff
21-Jun-2011
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Sussex Partnership plans to recruit two nurse consultants
21-Jun-2011
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Sussex Partnership reports £5.2m surplus for 2010-11
21-Jun-2011
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Surrey and Borders Partnership to inform national policy on equality and diversity
20-Jun-2011
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Kent and Medway consults public on community engagement plan
20-Jun-2011
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Fire risk found at Surrey and Borders Partnership FT
20-Jun-2011
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Surrey and Borders Partnership FT finished last year with small deficit
20-Jun-2011
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Surrey and Borders struggling to improve serious incident reporting
20-Jun-2011
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Calderstones reports 36 incidents to Health and Safety Executive
16-Jun-2011
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RDaSH improves staff survey results
15-Jun-2011
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Leicestershire Partnership appoints temporary chief exec
15-Jun-2011
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Ward closures planned by Hampshire Partnership
10-Jun-2011
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West London Mental Health Trust says 'disaster is not imminent' on suicide risk
6-Jun-2011
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Sussex Partnership launches perinatal mental health service
3-Jun-2011
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Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership reports surplus
3-Jun-2011
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Western Cheshire sets aside £8m against risk of ‘reinstating’ mental health funds
31-May-2011
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Eight Alder Hey employees laid off after cuts to child mental health services
27-May-2011
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Mental health PbR to be reviewed
26 May 2011
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Official opening for new mental health unit at Pennine Care
25-May-2011
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Private provider opens specialist rehab hospital in Southwark
23-May-2011
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Royal college gives Sussex Partnership unit top rating
19-May-2011
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RiO problems hit Oxford Health FT
18-May-2011
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Berkshire mental health services slipped on targets last year
16-May-2011
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Care eclipsed by 'management goals' at Suffolk mental health trust
13-May-2011
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NHS North Yorkshire and York celebrates refurbishment of historic hospital
13-May-2011
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Review into Berkshire FT suicides
13-May-2011
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Mental unit investigation ends
12-May-2011
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Five serious incidents at Calderstones in March
11-May-2011
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Oxford Learning Disability Trust shelves foundation trust application
10-May-2011
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Hampshire Partnership gets new name for 'new era'
10-May-2011
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Sussex Partnership hails success of consultant nurse post
10-May-2011
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'Tough year' ahead for Suffolk mental health trust
9-May-2011
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Manchester mental health trust plans to escape PFI premises
9-May-2011
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Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust appoints first learning disability nurse
5-May-2011
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South West London and St George's gets new workforce director
5-May-2011
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North East mental health FT building GP links
4-May-2011
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Bullying drops at Sussex Partnership
4-May-2011
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North East MH FT hosting quality observatory
4-May-2011
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Councillors approve North East MH service change
4-May-2011
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Council to investigate Berkshire mental health plans
3-May-2011
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Devon Partnership exceeds savings plans
3-May-2011
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Devon Partnership records ten suspected suicides this year
3-May-2011
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Coventry and Warwickshire reports risk to income from 'client' discharge
28-Apr-2011
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Humber FT takes over East Riding community services
28-Apr-2011
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Cross border mental health contracts emerge in the South East
28 April 2011
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Coventry and Warwickshire mental health trust takes on substance misuse
27-Apr-2011
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Community hospital opened by 2gether NHS Foundation Trust
27-Apr-2011
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Cornwall Partnership consults staff on restructure
27-Apr-2011
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Avon and Wiltshire look to become FT by year end
27-Apr-2011
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Londonwide GP council to represent capital's pathfinders
27-Apr-2011
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Broadmoor airs reservations over personality disorder service redesign
26-Apr-2011
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Berkshire Healthcare FT has responded to CQC concerns on incident reporting
26-Apr-2011
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Surplus exceeds expectation at Tees, Esk and Wear FT
26-Apr-2011
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Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber FT cuts CAMHS waits
19-Apr-2011
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South Yorks FT misses data and information targets
19-Apr-2011
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Consultation supports RDaSH reconfiguration
19-Apr-2011
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Leeds Partnerships seeks social care integration
18-Apr-2011
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Sussex Partnership wins Hampshire children’s health contract
15-Apr-2011
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Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health FT appoints two NEDs
15-Apr-2011
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Lincs PCT chosen to pilot PbR for drug and alcohol treatment
14-Apr-2011
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Competition panel okays seven provider trusts to run GPs
14-Apr-2011
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Six Mersey Care patients abscond on escorted leave from medium secure services
13-Apr-2011
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NHS Oxfordshire announces contract for counselling services
13-Apr-2011
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Lancashire Care FT aims to make 5 per cent savings in 2011-12
13-Apr-2011
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TCS ends agreement between Kent and Medway and county council
11-Apr-2011
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Surrey and Borders Partnership launches pioneering organ donor guide
11-Apr-2011
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Environment remains a ‘challenge’ for Kent and Medway Partnership
11-Apr-2011
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Coventry and Warwickshire mental health trust asks for CQUIN exclusions
8-Apr-2011
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Earl Howe orders break-up of North West's 'anti-competitive' four year contract
7-Apr-2011
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NHS South Staffordshire to shut mental health centres
5-Apr-2011
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2gether chair reappointed for three more years
4-Apr-2011
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Somerset Partnership FT begins refurbishment of 'serious incident' ward
4-Apr-2011
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London mental health trusts moot IT procurement partnership
1-Apr-2011
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Oxford and Bucks gets new name
1-Apr-2011
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East London FT third highest reporter of incidents
31-Mar-2011
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Lancashire Care suspend work on new hospital
31-Mar-2011
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Mental health social enterprise launched in North East Lincolnshire
30-Mar-2011
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Worcestershire Partnership 'significantly worse' than other trusts on delayed transfers
30-Mar-2011
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Medway to fund 24-hour mental health helpline
28-Mar-2011
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Sussex Partnership gains council approval for service change
28-Mar-2011
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North Essex Partnership FT begins work on child mental health unit
25-Mar-2011
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NHS Worcestershire's TCS plans set back by appointment delays
24-Mar-2011
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Kent & Medway FT authorisation delayed till 2011-12
16-Mar-2011
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NHS Derby City's final TCS plans laid out
16-Mar-2011
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Eight SUI investigations exceed time limit at Cumbria Partnership
15-Mar-2011
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Two PCTs find temporary homes for community services as divestment deadline looms
10 March 2011
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NHS Suffolk ‘parks’ provider arm with North Essex Partnership FT
2-Mar-2011
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'Concerns' over quality monitoring meetings with NHS Hounslow cluster
2-Mar-2011
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NHS North Yorkshire and York mental health services to go to local FTs
9-Feb-2011
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Derbyshire mental health trust granted foundation status
8-Feb-2011
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Dudley and Walsall more than double predicted surplus
8-Feb-2011
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Trust seeks £2.1m for capital programme
8-Feb-2011
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Provider organisations to miss TCS deadline
8-Feb-2011
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NHS Bristol explores possibility of research centre
3-Feb-2011
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Rotherham FT taking on community services
12-Jan-2011
