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NHS London has 80 anti-terrorism leaders across the capital

2011-10-18T17:36:00Z

WORKFORCE: NHS London has recruited “80 nominated leads across NHS organisations in London to train staff to recognise if colleagues have been recruited to terrorism”.

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64 patients declined funding as NHS Buckinghamshire fails on 18 week target

2011-10-17T18:07:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Dozens of Buckinghamshire patients have been declined funding after commissioners took action to improve performance against the 18 week referral to treatment standard.

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Heatherwood blamed for 'failing' local system

2011-10-13T00:00:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The health system in Berkshire East has been judged to be “failing”, due in large part to performance at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust.

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London mental health trusts 'unfairly targeted' for savings

2011-10-13T00:00:00Z

FINANCE: London’s mental health services are seeing a relative disinvestment while the acute sector “overheats”, according to a leaked report.

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University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay withdraws bid to take over neighbouring trust

2011-10-12T17:28:00Z

STRUCTURE: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust has pulled out of the competition to take over a neighbouring trust, after Monitor declared it in “significant breach” of its authorisation.

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Monitor sanctions mental health merger

2011-10-12T17:00:00Z

STRUCTURE: Monitor will allow a mental health trust in the East of England to be taken over despite a Cooperation and Competition Panel ruling against the acquisition.

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Lansley identifies 20 'unsustainable' trusts

2011-10-11T12:45:00Z

The government has identified 20 trusts whose “clinical and financial stability is at risk” because of “cash-flow shortages” and legacy debt.

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Lab scientists to vote on industrial action at Central Manchester FT

2011-10-10T18:20:00Z

WORKFORCE: Biomedical scientists at Central Manchester University Hospitals are to be balloted for industrial action which their union warns could force the foundation trust to close at night.

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Hospital trust asks staff to consider working unpaid after recording £4.5m deficit at month five

2011-10-07T12:27:00Z

WORKFORCE: Whipps Cross University Hospital has asked staff to consider sacrificing leave and do extra unpaid work, a leaked letter reveals.

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CQC to investigate 'atypical' rise in never events

2011-10-05T15:48:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission is investigating Nottingham University Hospitals Trust after eight “never events” were recorded in six months.

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Surrey trust loses confidential patient records

2011-10-05T11:02:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The security of hundreds of patients’ confidential details was compromised when a memory stick containing the data went missing, a healthcare trust has admitted.

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Yorkshire PCT has 'significant concerns' about GP minor surgery letter

2011-10-04T19:15:00Z

FINANCE: NHS North Yorkshire and York has said it has “significant concerns” about a letter sent by a GP practice to patients it believed wanted minor surgery, in which the practice offered to carry out procedures it said were no longer funded by the primary care trust for a fee.

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York GPs tell patients they can pay for NHS-limited procedures

2011-10-04T13:50:00Z

FINANCE: A GP surgery has written to patients who it believed wanted minor surgery which is no longer funded by its primary care trust, offering to carry out the procedures for a fee, it has emerged.

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Thousands of records accidentally destroyed by Dartford and Gravesham

2011-10-04T11:22:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust breached the Data Protection Act by accidentally destroying 10,000 archived records, the Information Commissioner’s Office has said.

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South West gets 'special consideration' for surgery site

2011-10-03T15:27:00Z

COMMERCIAL: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust and Plymouth Hospitals Trust are both to continue providing gynaecological cancer surgery on site after agreeing to create one multi-disciplinary team spanning the two trusts.

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Exclusive: cluster-sized commissioning group being considered

2011-10-03T12:10:00Z

STRUCTURE: GPs in Cambridgeshire could form a single clinical commissioning group for the entire county, covering two primary care trust areas.

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London commissioning cluster predicts deficit for 2011-12

2011-09-30T16:04:00Z

FINANCE: The north central London cluster is predicting a deficit of £14.8m this financial year, new documents reveal.

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Southampton gets FT status after DH promise of 'restructured' debt

2011-09-30T12:02:00Z

STRUCTURE: A large hospital trust on the south coast has achieved foundation status, after being told its debt would be “restructured” by the Department of Health.

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Disparity over version of events surrounding patient deaths at Wexham Park

2011-09-30T03:00:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Commissioners and providers in Berkshire are reporting different details of events surrounding the same patient mortality incidents, it has emerged.

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Senior appointments made at England's biggest SHA cluster

2011-09-29T17:30:00Z

WORKFORCE: Five more directors have been appointed to the board of the largest strategic health authority cluster in England.