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NHS Blackpool chief executive seconded to acute provider

2012-01-06T18:33:00Z

WORKFORCE: The primary care trust’s chief executive, Wendy Swift, has been seconded to Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust as their managing director of community services.

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NHS Blackpool spending £2.6m lower than planned at October end

2012-01-06T18:32:00Z

FINANCE: At the end of October the commissioner was showing a surplus of £3.4m for the year to date, £2.6m above its planned underspend to that point, according to NHS Lancashire PCT cluster’s latest finance report.

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East Lancs Hospitals sees rise in activity from Rochdale A&E closure

2012-01-06T18:32:00Z

FINANCE: The closure of the accident and emergency department at the nearby Rochdale Infirmary has driven up emergency activity at East Lancashire, triggering financial penalties for the trust, its commissioners have reported.

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Commissioners forecast around £2.7m overspend on Lancs Teaching Hospitals

2012-01-06T18:31:00Z

FINANCE: Four of the five Lancashire primary care trusts were forecasting year end overspends in excess of £400,000 with the foundation at the end of September, their cluster’s latest finance report shows.

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'Dramatic improvement' in A&E admission times at Leicester

2012-01-06T18:30:00Z

PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of Leicester Trust has seen a “dramatic improvement” in the time taken to admit emergency patients.

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Leicester let off readmissions penalties worth £7.5m

2012-01-06T18:29:00Z

FINANCE: Commissioners have reduced an £11m penalty for emergency readmissions at University Hospitals of Leicester Trust to just £3.5m.

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A&E performance "fragile" at Heatherwood FT

2012-01-06T18:28:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust achieved its four-hour accident and emergency target in November, but performance in the department remains “fragile”.

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Heatherwood and Wexham Park rewrites CIP plan

2012-01-06T18:28:00Z

Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Foundation Trust is rewriting its cost improvement plan after reforecasting its finances for 2011-12.

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Lewisham Healthcare Trust releases reserves to cover CIP gap

2012-01-06T18:27:00Z

FINANCE: The south London integrated care trust has delivered £7.7m of its £8.4m cost improvement programme, its latest finance report said.

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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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Lewisham Healthcare Trust to take over eight PCT properties

2012-01-06T18:26:00Z

STRUCTURE: The south London trust will take over eight properties from the south east London cluster of primary care trusts under the Transforming Communtiy Services framework.

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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.