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NHS Bolton secures £150,000 to help clear dental waiting lists

2012-01-06T18:26:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust has secured £150,000 to help clear 2,000 patients from the waiting list for NHS dentistry, according to its latest performance report.

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DH wins right to appeal Royal Brompton judicial review decision

2012-01-06T18:23:00Z

STRUCTURE: The joint council of primary care trusts, set up by the Department of Health to review paediatric surgery, has won the right to appeal a judge’s decision that its consultation last year was unlawful.

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Sheffield pioneers community and mental health user experience plan

2012-01-06T18:16:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Sheffield Health and Social Care Foundation Trust is planning to establish a service user experience monitoring unit, under which ex-service users will interview current service users.

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PCT expects further poor waiting times figures from Royal Bolton

2012-01-06T18:15:00Z

PERFORMANCE: NHS Bolton is forecasting that when the foundation publishes its waiting times for admitted patients treated in October they will push the commissioner’s figures below the threshold standard.

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Dorset cluster running out of staff

2012-01-05T16:03:00Z

WORKFORCE: The Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset primary care trust cluster has warned there may not be enough staff left working in the PCTs to meet the requirements for the clinical commissioning group.

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Maternity consultation nears end in east Kent

2012-01-04T19:33:00Z

STRUCTURE: A “last call” for the public to have their say on the future of maternity services has been issued by the NHS Kent and Medway PCT cluster.

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New chief exec appointed by KMPT

2012-01-04T19:22:00Z

WORKFORCE: Angela McNab has been appointed as the new chief executive of Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.

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250 Pennine Acute ‘backlog’ patients transferred to private sector

2012-01-04T18:30:00Z

PERFORMANCE: 250 of the trust’s patients will be transferred to the private sector in an effort to improve waiting times at Pennine Acute, one of its commissioners has reported.

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Heatherwood trust restructures executive committees

2012-01-04T18:17:00Z

STRUCTURE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust is to restructured its executive committees in an attempt to strengthen accountability for financial and service performance.

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Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale seeks out uses for £1.7m underspend

2012-01-04T18:16:00Z

FINANCE: At the end of October 2011 the primary care trust had under-spent its budget to the value of £1.7m, according to its latest finance report.

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CQC lifts concerns over Heatherwood trust

2012-01-04T18:15:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission is to remove compliance actions from Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Foundation Trust following an unannounced inspection.

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Royal Bournemouth over performance 'biggest single risk' to PCT finances

2012-01-04T18:14:00Z

FINANCE: Over performance at Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospital Foundation Trust is the biggest risk to finances of its primary care trust cluster.

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Heatherwood FT runs at £1.3m deficit in November

2012-01-04T18:12:00Z

FINANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Foundation Trust ran at a £1.3m deficit in November, latest figures show.

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Southampton FT urges visitors to stay away amid sickness outbreak

2012-01-04T18:11:00Z

PERFORMANCE: An outbreak of winter vomiting bugs has prompted Southampton hospital managers to close wards and urge visitors to stay away.

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Two Croydon GP groups merge

2012-01-04T16:23:00Z

STRUCTURE: The two emerging clinical commissioning groups under Croydon PCT have decided to merge.

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Sutton and Merton to have one CCG per borough

2012-01-04T16:22:00Z

STRUCTURE: Sutton and Merton GPs have decided to move to two emerging clinical commissioning groups, each matching one of the London boroughs, with “close working in the future where the two CCGs’ agendas overlap”.

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Barts plastic surgery nurse given MBE

2012-01-03T18:35:00Z

WORKFORCE: Daren Edwards, clinical nurse specialist in plastic surgery at Barts and the London, has been awarded an MBE for services to nursing.

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Gong for CUH estates director

2012-01-03T18:33:00Z

WORKFORCE: Richard Howe, former executive director of estates and facilities at Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust, has been awarded an OBE for services to the NHS.

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Former Sheffield chief exec handed OBE

2012-01-03T18:31:00Z

WORKFORCE: Chris Sharratt, the former chief executive of Sheffield Children’s Foundation Trust, has been awarded an OBE for services to child health.

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Former Kingston chair gets CBE

2012-01-03T18:29:00Z

WORKFORCE: Former NHS Kingston chair Neslyn Watson-Druée has been awarded a CBE for services to healthcare.