All Health Service Journal articles in 19 January 2012 – Page 6
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HSJ Local
Epsom and St Helier at pressure ulcer threshold with third of year to go
PERFORMANCE: The south London/Surrey borders trust had a 2011-12 target of only 20 grade three pressure ulcers for the year, a target it risks missing as two incidents this month took the year-to-date total to 20.
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'Outliers' mean Epsom and St Helier's private patient unit makes £409k loss
FINANCE: A finance report to the trust’s January board meeting said: “Private patient income continues its adverse trend due to outliers in the private patient unit.”
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Comment
A perfect opportunity to reform the education and training system
Last week’s publication of the further policy statement on the future NHS education and training system provides a great opportunity for providers to ensure they have the workforce they need to deliver the world class health services the public wants, says Martin Barkley.
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Comment
'Start planning the execution, instead of dreaming about the ambition'
In 2012, the Year of the Dragon, will commissioning plans be all smoke and no fire? Paul Zollinger-Read says it is vital that they aren’t.
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HSJ Local
Northumbria Healthcare FT buys PAS
COMMERCIAL: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a seven-year contract to Stalis Ltd to supply a new patient administration system.
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HSJ Local
Departed chair at troubled London trust had raised concerns about diverting pregnant women
PERFORMANCE: Chair of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Edwin Doyle resigned within a week of raising concerns about the Care Quality Commission’s imposition of a cap on the number of births at the trust.
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HSJ Local
Peterborough and Stamford in significant breach for ‘foreseeable future’ – Monitor
FINANCE: A November meeting of Monitor’s compliance board concluded that the regulator expected Peterborough and Stamford FT to remain in significant breach of its terms of authorisation for “the foreseeable future”.
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HSJ Local
West Yorks NHS looks at data centre rationalisation
COMMERCIAL: PCTs in West Yorkshire, with the strategic health authority, have engaged consultants to help look at rationalising their data centre services.
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HSJ Local
NHS Manchester to overshoot savings target by £1.5m
FINANCE: The primary care trust is forecasting it will save around £1.5m more than its £24.7m savings target for 2011-12, according to the Greater Manchester PCT cluster’s latest finance report.
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HSJ Local
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Heath Trust name-change receives tentative backing
STRUCTURE: The north London mental health trust plans to change its name to North London Foundation Trust if it is authorised by Monitor.
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HSJ Local
Trusts merge to form Oxford University Hospitals
STRUCTURE: Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust has merged with Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre to form Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Ox-Bucks cluster 'concerned' over QIPP
FINANCE: Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire primary care trust cluster has expressed “concern” over its ability to meet its quality, improvement, productivity and prevention plan for 2011-12.
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Berkshire Healthcare saves £610,000 through vacancy freezes
WORKFORCE: Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust hit its cost improvement plan target in the year to September 2011, but had to save £610,000 through vacancy freezes.
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HSJ Local
Consultancy appointed to SW London's merger bids competition panel application
STRUCTURE: Deloitte has been appointed to work on Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Trust’s bid to de-merge its hospitals and re-merge with neighbours.
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HSJ Local
Epsom and St Helier secures £5m bailout from cluster to end the year £14m in deficit
FINANCE: The London/Surrey borders trust’s latest finance report said it was planning to hit its revised £14.3 deficit target after “revenue support of £5m has been agreed with sector” and NHS London.
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News
Revealed: Bennett's plan to split Monitor board
Monitor is likely to face “numerous” allegations of improper conduct unless it can clearly separate its future healthcare regulatory role from its responsibility for foundation trusts, its chairman has warned.
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News
Burnham urges medical colleges to demand bill is dropped
Representatives from the main royal medical colleges have met shadow health secretary Andy Burnham to discuss the possibility of a issuing a joint call for the Health Bill to be dropped.
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News
New Medicine Service guidance released
New guidance has been published showing how the New Medicine Service and post discharge Medicines Use Reviews can be used to provide a seamless care pathway for patients who transfer from hospital to the community setting.
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News
EU laws 'putting patients at risk'
NHS patients are “at risk” because of European laws, the heads of two royal colleges have said.
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HSJ Local
Royal Liverpool submits planning application for BioInnovation centre
COMMERCIAL: The trust has submitted a planning application for a 70,000 sq ft Liverpool BioInnovation Centre, to provide commercial scale laboratory space to develop new treatments and medical technologies for the market.