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Hillingdon Hospital increases number of short-stay admissions

2012-09-24T18:35:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Hillingdon Hospital has seen an increase in the number of short-stay admissions, lowering its overall length of stay, a board paper reports.

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Hillingdon Hospitals downgrades savings forecast by £200k

2012-09-24T18:33:00Z

FINANCE: Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust has revised its forecast savings downwards by £200,000, board papers reveal.

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Barnet and Chase Farm behind on savings

2012-09-24T18:28:00Z

FINANCE: Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals Trust is behind by £2m on its year-to-date savings target of £5.9m a board report reveals.

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Salisbury FT struggling to avoid redundancies

2012-09-24T18:28:00Z

WORKFORCE: Low staff turnover at Salisbury Foundation Trust is making it difficult for the trust to meet its workforce reduction targets.

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Dudley CCG hires accountable officer and chief finance officer

2012-09-24T16:29:00Z

STRUCTURE: Dudley CCG has appointed an accountable officer and chief financial officer.

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All staff offered redundancy by Kent trust

2012-09-24T11:49:00Z

WORKFORCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust has taken the drastic step of offering all its staff voluntary redundancy as it attempts to save £15m to £20m.

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Antibiotic 'boosts spread of MRSA'

2012-09-24T11:07:00Z

A common antibiotic is helping a deadly superbug spread through hospitals, according to research.

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Regulator steps in at Sherwood Forest Hospitals

2012-09-24T09:52:00Z

FINANCE: Foundation trust regulator Monitor today found Sherwood Forest Hospitals in significant breach of its terms of authorisation following a further deterioration in the FT’s finances.

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Yeovil aims to discharge patients in time for lunch

2012-09-24T09:51:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Staff at Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust have been working on a project which aims to get patients home for lunch.

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Norovirus drives increase in C diff at South Devon

2012-09-24T09:50:00Z

PERFORMANCE: South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust has warned it is likely to exceed the limit for cases of Clostridium difficile in 2012-13.

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South Devon plans evening and weekend lists to tackle RTT backlog

2012-09-24T09:50:00Z

PERFORMANCE: South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust is transferring some patients to an independent provider and planning to run weekend clinics in order to reduce its referral to treatment backlog in some specialties.

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Mid Cheshire plans £6.9m cost reductions

2012-09-21T18:12:00Z

FINANCE: The £168m turnover foundation trust has planned for £6.9m of cost reductions this year and £0.7m of income growth, its latest three year plan shows.

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Leicester Trust to spend £2m to fill staff shortages

2012-09-21T18:10:00Z

WORKFORCE: The University Hospitals of Leicester Trust is to spend approximately £2m recruiting extra nursing staff after a review identified a shortage across the trust.

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Joint MD appointed to Cheshire and Merseyside CSUs

2012-09-21T18:08:00Z

WORKFORCE: Tim Andrews has been announced as managing director of the Merseyside Commissioning Support Unit.

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Portsmouth system plans integrated provider

2012-09-21T18:02:00Z

STRUCTURE: NHS leaders in Portsmouth have agreed in principle to set up an integrated care organisation to provide services for frail elderly patients across primary, community and acute care.

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Ambulance service revises controversial savings plan

2012-09-21T17:09:00Z

FINANCE: Controversial planned cost-saving changes to ambulance services in the East of England are being revised after an unexpected rise in demand.

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CQC orders Mid Yorks to stop using day unit for longer stays

2012-09-21T13:04:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has imposed an urgent legal restriction on the registration of Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, preventing it from using its Pinderfields Hospital day surgical unit for patient staying longer than 23 hours.

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Troubled Barnsley CCG set to get delegated powers

2012-09-21T13:03:00Z

STRUCTURE: The emerging single clinical commissioning group in Barnsley - which is significantly behind development in most of the country - looks set to be handed delegated budgets and responsibility.

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Serco admits staff falsified records

2012-09-21T09:55:00Z

COMMERCIAL: A private sector provider has admitted that staff working on its GP out-of-hours service in Cornwall altered performance data.

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North Bristol FD to take up job in Wales

2012-09-18T18:31:00Z

WORKFORCE: North Bristol Trust deputy chief executive and finance director Steve Webster is leaving the trust to become finance director at the Cwm Taf Health Board in South Wales.