All HSJ Local articles – Page 224

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Exclusive: CCGs line up 10 year integrated contracts

2013-09-16T11:22:00Z

STRUCTURE: Five clinical commissioning groups in Staffordshire are planning to tender the first integrated 10 year contracts for cancer and end of life care, HSJ has learned.

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Bedford’s future viability questioned by auditors

2013-09-16T11:03:00Z

Bedford Hospital Trust faces “significant challenges” remaining sustainable in the future, its auditors have warned.

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Devon Partnership improves research performance

2013-09-13T17:07:00Z

CLINICAL RESEARCH: Devon Partnership Trust has moved up the league table for mental health trusts involved in research by more than 20 places.

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Mental health trusts to advise Bupa

2013-09-13T11:49:00Z

Bupa has announced a partnership with two mental health foundation trusts in London to advise it on the provision of mental health services.

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Trust's music video boosts asthma knowledge

2013-09-13T11:16:00Z

Delegates a medical conference have been given a demonstration on how music and social media can help raise awareness of asthma treatment guidelines.

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Trust faces £12m financial deficit

2013-09-13T10:28:00Z

FINANCE: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust has warned performance difficulties during a “difficult summer” have led it to predict a year-end deficit of £12m.

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Torbay merger will be 'unique' challenge for OFT

2013-09-13T08:21:00Z

STRUCTURE: The proposed takeover of a trust that has pioneered the integration of health and social care by an acute foundation trust has been approved, despite the acquisition’s business case receiving a “low” score.

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Nicholson highlights 'significant problems' at Morecambe Bay

2013-09-13T07:20:00Z

Sir David Nicholson has said “cultural problems” remain at University Hospital of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust’s scandal-hit maternity unit.

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Coventry and Warwickshire turns around A&E performance

2013-09-12T18:37:00Z

PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire achieved the four hour accident and emergency standard for the first time in nine months in June.

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Parking charges rise at North Staffs

2013-09-12T18:36:00Z

FINANCE: Parking charges are set to rise at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire’s from 1 November for the first time in six years.

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Dorset healthcare faces 'cultural challenge'

2013-09-12T18:21:00Z

STRUCTURE: A south west mental health trust which took on community services in 2011 still faces a “significant challenge” in “bridging the cultural gap”, an external report has concluded.

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Hinchingbrooke-style franchise considered for Peterborough

2013-09-12T11:01:00Z

A Hinchingbrooke-style private franchise could take over Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals Foundation Trust’s main site, Monitor has confirmed.

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Dorset CCG highlights continuing care risk

2013-09-11T14:03:00Z

FINANCE: Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group has set aside £4.9m for risks associated with continuing healthcare claims and over performance on acute contracts during 2013-14.

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East Kent hospitals awarded £2m for renal study

2013-09-10T17:06:00Z

RESEARCH: Researchers at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust have been awarded £2m to lead a multicentre study investigating different ways of assessing kidney function.

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East Surrey radiotherapy unit due to open in spring

2013-09-10T16:44:00Z

STRUCTURE: Staff at East Surrey Hospital performed a traditional “topping out” ceremony for its new state of the art radiotherapy facility in Redhill this month.

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Sussex community provider pays all staff ‘living wage’

2013-09-10T16:22:00Z

WORKFORCE: Sussex Community Trust has become the first NHS organisation in Sussex to achieve accreditation as a “Living Wage Employer”.

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Mid Staffs plans £5.5m savings in 2013-14

2013-09-10T13:45:00Z

FINANCE: Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust aims to make cost improvement programme savings of £5.5m in 2013-14.

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Mid Cheshire plan £5.9m savings in 2013-14

2013-09-10T13:43:00Z

FINANCE: Mid Cheshire Hospitals aims to make cost improvement programme savings of £5.9m in 2013-14.

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Oxford trust targets workforce cost savings

2013-09-10T13:41:00Z

FINANCE: Oxford University Hospitals Trust is to focus its cost improvement programme on workforce savings.

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Devon Partnership looks to save with nurse prescribing

2013-09-10T13:39:00Z

WORKFORCE: Devon Partnership Trust plans to save money by rolling out non-medical prescribing for certain drugs. However, nurses and other clinicians who take on the extr responsibility will not be paid more.