All HSJ Local articles – Page 516
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Surrey dementia tool to help local authorities
PERFORMANCE: Surrey County Council and local NHS organisations have developed a tool to help councils nationally improve standards of care for people with dementia.
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NHS Medway records small in-year surplus
FINANCE: The primary care trust had fallen slightly behind plan after the first two months of the financial year, but did report a surplus.
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Southampton trust looks to expand paediatric services
STRUCTURE: Providers and commissioners are supporting Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust to expand its paediatric services.
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East and Coastal Kent records year to date surplus
FINANCE: The primary care trust has reported a surplus for the first two months of the financial year but would have been in deficit without the use of contingency funds.
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Coventry nurses develop care pathway for learning disabilities
WORKFORCE: Community nurses in Coventry have developed a care pathway for older children with learning disabilities to aid their transition into adult services.
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Southampton Trust gains services as commissioners shun London
FINANCE: Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust has gained £1m worth of cardiac surgery as a result of work by Hampshire primary care trust to move services outside of London.
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NHS Bury deficit rose to £1.7m by end of June
FINANCE: The primary care trust was £1.7m in deficit at the end of June 2011, against plans to have made a surplus of £63,000 by that point in the financial year.
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Performance notice issued over Caesarian rate at Ealing Hospital
PERFORMANCE: The west London acute hospital has been rapped by commissioners NHS North West London over its year-to-date Caesarian section percentage of 27.7.
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CQC finds Royal Cornwall has made improvements
PERFORMANCE: Care Quality Commission inspectors are now satisfied with the safety of Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust’s operating theatres.
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Ealing Hospital £2.6m over contract at the end of June
FINANCE: The west London acute trust reported an over-performance on contract of £2.6m at the end of June, £2.4m of it with principal commissioners NHS Ealing.
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Health and safety risk from George Eliot hardware
PERFORMANCE: George Eliot Hospital is to review staffing levels in its estates department after identifying the poor maintenance as a serious risk.
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Lambeth moves to single emerging CCG
STRUCTURE: The GPs in Lambeth are now members of a single emerging clinical commissioning group.
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Patients left confused by Swindon A&E scheme
STRUCTURE: A scheme aimed at reducing accident and emergency attendances is causing “confusion and complaints” among patients, according to primary care trust board papers.
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All practices within Shropshire County PCT have signed up to a single emerging CCG
STRUCTURE: All practices within NHS Shropshire County have signed up to a single emerging clinical commissioning group.
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George Eliot beats CIP target for first quarter
FINANCE: George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust has exceeded its cost improvement plan target for the first quarter of 2011-12, but is yet to identify all the savings it will need to make this year.
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George Eliot rated amber-green after missing cancer target
PERFORMANCE: George Eliot Hospital missed out on a “green” Monitor governance rating after narrowly failing to meet its 62 day cancer referral target for the first quarter of 2011-12.
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New out of hours provider in Great Yarmouth and Waveney
COMMERCIAL: Great Yarmouth and Waveney’s primary care trust and clinical commissioning group have appointed a new provider for out of hours services in the area.
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NHS Wiltshire struggles to reach contract agreement with acutes
FINANCE: NHS Wiltshire had still not agreed contracts with four of its biggest acute providers by the start of July.
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SHA proposes 'no pathology service review, no bailout' policy for London trusts
FINANCE: Documents seen by HSJ reveal NHS London is proposing to make financial bail-outs conditional on trusts signing up to its plans to shake-up pathology.
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Reconfiguration in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire to leave three main acute sites
STRUCTURE: A strategy for the future of acute and community care in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire has made no mention of Ascot’s Heatherwood hospital, which has already been dogged by closure fears.