All Health Service Journal articles in 3 March 2011 – Page 6
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Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust £1.9m ahead of budget for the month
FINANCE: The specialist trust was predicting a deficit of £400,000 for January but instead saw a surplus of £1.5m.
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Stockport FT contract £2.5m overspent, while waiting times increase
FINANCE: The foundation had over-performed on its contract with NHS Stockport by £2.5m by the end of January, board papers from the primary care trust show.
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NHS Warrington chief plans power handover to GPs
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust’s chief executive has unveiled plans to hand responsibility for commissioning secondary and community health care services to an emergent GP consortium.
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News1,000 trust jobs at risk, chief executive admits
Up to 1,000 jobs could go at the Pennine Acute Trust to meet budget savings, its chief executive has warned.
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HSJ Knowledge'Will community services boil down to "any willing price"?'
At a recent senior company team meeting, I was discussing the changes envisaged in the Health and Social Care Bill and raised the notion about writing this article and calling it “any willing price”.
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HSJ KnowledgeIndividual wellness at the centre of new public health approach
A call to action in the North West for a new dimension of public health thinking places ‘wellness’ of the individual at its heart. Dr Ruth Hussey and Jude Stansfield explain.
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NewsReforms 'may not give GPs freedom'
The government’s pledge to give GPs freedom over buying services for patients could be a hollow promise, according to doctors’ leaders.
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NewsAlcohol and drug care 'saves money'
Every pound spent on helping teenagers cope with drug and alcohol problems saves the taxpayer up to £8 over a lifetime, economists have said.
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NewsCall to change chaplains policy
The NHS spends £29m on hospital chaplains providing “no clinical benefit” for a huge variation in costs, according to a report.
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NHS Brent's chief executive to move on
WORKFORCE: Mark Easton is set to leave his role leading NHS Brent and neighbouring Harrow to take up a role leading Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals Trust.
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NewsCQC threatens mental health FT with enforcement action over failings
Inspectors have called for urgent improvements at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust after finding it to be in breach of five essential standards.
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NHS Westminster due to miss DH deadline for shutting outmoded learning disability facilities
PERFORMANCE: Seven London primary care trusts have missed a government deadline for closing down their learning disability campuses, documents reveal.
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NHS Harrow worst PCT in London for Chlamydia screening
PERFORMANCE: The troubled primary care trust was ranked 147th in the country for coverage, testing only three per cent of the targeted population.
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Staff remain at risk at NHS Islington and its PCT 'cluster'
WORKFORCE: The five-PCT cluster identified 594 at-risk posts at the start of the management cost reduction programme and 105 people have now accepted voluntary redundancy.
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Slow progress on NHS Salford strategic investments leaves funds at risk
FINANCE: Slow progress on a series of planned public health initiatives are the “main reason” for the primary care trust’s plan to lodge an extra £2.5m with NHS North West this year.
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NHS Swindon to miss chlamydia screening target
PERFORMANCE: Less than 8 per cent of young people in the NHS Swindon area have been tested for chlamydia against a target of 35 per cent.
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NHS Hammersmith & Fulham chair to become north west London cluster chair
WORKFORCE: Jeff Zitron has been announced as chair designate for the cluster, which incorporates eight primary care trusts.
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King's College Hospital FT brings in extra cleaners after performance 'concern'
PERFORMANCE: The south London acute reported it had hired an extra cleaning contractor for high risk areas after “concern” about existing contractors Medirest.
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'Historic' three way cluster announced for Devon
STRUCTURE: NHS Devon is to join with two neighbouring primary care trusts to form a cluster covering the whole of “historic Devon”.
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Pennine acute misses 12 out of 65 performance targets
PERFORMANCE: The trust was failing against three national targets and nine local targets at the end of January, its latest “scorecard” shows.