All Health Service Journal articles in 18 August 2011 – Page 6
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HSJ Local
All practices within Shropshire County PCT have signed up to a single emerging CCG
STRUCTURE: All practices within NHS Shropshire County have signed up to a single emerging clinical commissioning group.
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HSJ Local
George Eliot beats CIP target for first quarter
FINANCE: George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust has exceeded its cost improvement plan target for the first quarter of 2011-12, but is yet to identify all the savings it will need to make this year.
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HSJ Local
George Eliot rated amber-green after missing cancer target
PERFORMANCE: George Eliot Hospital missed out on a “green” Monitor governance rating after narrowly failing to meet its 62 day cancer referral target for the first quarter of 2011-12.
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HSJ Local
New out of hours provider in Great Yarmouth and Waveney
COMMERCIAL: Great Yarmouth and Waveney’s primary care trust and clinical commissioning group have appointed a new provider for out of hours services in the area.
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HSJ Local
NHS Wiltshire struggles to reach contract agreement with acutes
FINANCE: NHS Wiltshire had still not agreed contracts with four of its biggest acute providers by the start of July.
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HSJ Local
SHA proposes 'no pathology service review, no bailout' policy for London trusts
FINANCE: Documents seen by HSJ reveal NHS London is proposing to make financial bail-outs conditional on trusts signing up to its plans to shake-up pathology.
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HSJ Local
Reconfiguration in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire to leave three main acute sites
STRUCTURE: A strategy for the future of acute and community care in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire has made no mention of Ascot’s Heatherwood hospital, which has already been dogged by closure fears.
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HSJ Local
Lancashire Care FT reports rise in violent incidents against staff
WORKFORCE: The rate of violent incidents against staff at the foundation rose in June to its highest level since October 2010, according to its August board papers.
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HSJ Local
C difficile cases rise faster than planned at East Lancashire Hospitals Trust
PERFORMANCE: Cases of C difficile rose faster than planned at the trust in the first three months of 2011-12, latest board reports show.
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HSJ Local
Berkshire East falls short on QIPP savings
FINANCE: Berkshire East primary care trust made only two thirds of its planned efficiency savings in the first two months of 2011-12, according to board papers.
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News
DH confirms delay to GP practice registration
The government has confirmed it is delaying the deadline for the registration of GP practices with the Care Quality Commission by a year.
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News
Foundation Trust revives £2m e-records project
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust has resurrected plans for an e-records system despite a recent failed pilot of e-records software and criticism by MPs of attempts to create a similar network nationally.
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HSJ Local
Call for probe into GP transfer of SW London care home patients
PERFORMANCE: One of the leading lights of the government’s GP commissioning reforms has been drawn into a row which has seen the primary care trust cluster for south west London investigate claims care home patients were “dumped” by a GP practice.
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HSJ Local
Berkshire West QIPP slips
FINANCE: Berkshire West primary care trust is expecting to meet its surplus target of £1.6m for 2011-12, but said some efficiency schemes were already showing “significant slippage” in the first two months of the year.
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HSJ Local
Greater Manchester West scores highly in service user survey
PERFORMANCE: Service users gave the foundation one of the best scores in the country for overall quality of care in a new Care Quality Commission survey on community mental health.
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HSJ Local
IT upgrade increases admin workload for staff
PERFORMANCE: Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust is still stuggling to capture accurate performance data four months after an IT system upgrade.
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HSJ Local
Imperial plan to make £4.8m of £70m finance programme through increased income
FINANCE: The west London acute trust, which finished 2010-11 with a qualified account from its auditors, submitted the figures as part of its savings plan for 2011-12.
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HSJ Local
Lord Darzi called in to review the future of Academic Health Science Centre
ORGANISATION: Professor Lord Darzi, the former health minister, is to chair a review of Imperial College Healthcare Trust’s Academic Health Science Centre “and advise on its future direction”, documents seen by the HSJ reveal.
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HSJ Local
Staff changeover leads North Cumbria University Hospitals to fall behind on savings
FINANCE: At the end of the first two months of 2011-12 the trust had made savings of just £126,000 against a plan to save £15.2m for the full financial year, according to its latest finance report.
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HSJ Local
Cumbria PCT plans to use SHA “top slice” to offset 2010-11 deficit
FINANCE: Cumbria primary care trust’s 2011-12 financial plan assumes it will be able to use the two per cent of its budget held back by NHS North West to offset the £5.9m deficit recorded by the commissioner last year.