All Health Service Journal articles in 3 February 2011 – Page 6
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Surrey Healthcare still holds ambition to apply for FT status in 2013
STRUCTURE: The trust’s chief executive says he remains positive about its planned application for foundation status in two year’s time, despite the organisation’s uncertain financial position.
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Royal Surrey ‘mitigates’ against weather with block contract
FINANCE: The foundation trust has agreed a block contract with its primary care trust, NHS Surrey, for the remainder of the year.
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Surrey Healthcare concludes savings target is 'unachievable'
FINANCE: The trust has failed to make the savings it planned and has been categorised formally as “underperforming”.
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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells looks to Portugal for nurses
WORKFORCE: The Kent trust has successfully sourced new nursing recruits from Portugal and Ireland.
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Sheffield 'likely' to delegate commissioning soon
STRUCTURE: NHS Sheffield is likely to build on practice based commissioning arrangements by delegating responsibility to consortia once structures are agreed, it has said.
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East Midlands Ambulance Service failing on three of four targets
PERFORMANCE: East Midlands Ambulance Service is failing on three out of four response time targets.
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NHS Nottinghamshire County halves planned surplus
FINANCE: NHS Nottinghamshire County has agreed with NHS East Midlands to halve its predicted end of year £10m surplus after spending all its contingency reserves.
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Pay costs over budget at West Suffolk Trust
WORKFORCE: Pay costs are £1.18m above budget at West Suffolk Hospital Trust due to agency costs.
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Ipswich Hospital plans centre for coronary treatment
STRUCTURE: Ipswich Hospital Trust to open a centre for angioplasty treatment.
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King's College Hospital Foundation Trust misses MRSA target for 2010-11
PERFORMANCE: The south London acute trust has overshot its target threshold for the year by more than half.
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NHS Lambeth could save £7.2m by eliminating Procedure of Limited Clinical Effectiveness
FINANCE: The inner London borough had the highest spend in its cluster on the procedures and intends to decommission the services as part of its Quality Innovation, Productivity and Prevention programme.
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South London and Maudsley specialist services face decommissioning under QIPP plan
STRUCTURE: The south east London sector Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention plan said mental health services in Lambeth, one of the sector’s six PCTs, would face “system change within [the] context of circa 20 per cent savings”.
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GPs appointed to clinical cabinet to find more savings at Oxleas Foundation Trust
FINANCE: A primary care trust has appointed two GPs to try and top the £1m of savings negotiated with the mental health trust in 2010-11.
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NHS Direct service "severely compromised" over Christmas period
PERFORMANCE: The national patient helpline fielded 45 per cent more calls than forecast from December 21 to January 3, a performance report said.
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NHS Kingston 2011-12 QIPP plan aims for £9.6m savings
FINANCE: The London commissioners have submitted their Quality, Improvement, Productivity and Prevention proposals as part of the south west sector PCT’s group plan.
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Hounslow PCT criticised by local acute provider
PERFORMANCE: West Middlesex University Hospital’s deputy chief executive has criticised the community provider in the borough for not having enough COPD services, leading to a high rate of re-admission.
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South London Healthcare predicted to hit A&E targets despite consecutive poor months
PERFORMANCE: South London Healthcare Trust is predicting it will meet its four-hour A&E target for 2010-11, despite missing it in November and December last year.
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Decision on fate of Whipps Cross due in early February
STRUCTURE: Whipps Cross University Hospital will discover on February 8 who the preferred partner for taking it over is.
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NHS Bolton to miss savings target by £4.6m
FINANCE: NHS Bolton was on track to miss its cost improvement programme savings target by £4.6 million this financial year, its December board papers show.
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NHS Bury was £10.5m in deficit at end of October
FINANCE: NHS Bury was showing an in-year revenue deficit of £10.5 million at the end of October, according to a December 15 report to the primary care trust’s board.