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NHS Eastern and Coastal reports popularity of 100 hours pharmacies

2011-02-18T10:41:00Z

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY:  The primary care trust has published a pharmaceutical needs assessment in which it signals its intention to increase the number of “100 hour pharmacy contracts” it commissions.

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University Hospitals Leicester Trust fails to improve A&E times despite PCT warning

2011-02-18T10:37:00Z

PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals Leicester Trust has failed to achieve the terms set out in an A&E performance notice.

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Stoke-on-Trent delegates to city wide consortium

2011-02-17T13:50:00Z

STRUCTURE: Stoke-on-Trent has delegated most of its commissioning powers to a single city-wide consortium.

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Agency staff driving nursing cost overspend at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership

2011-02-17T13:25:00Z

WORKFORCE: Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust is reporting an overspend on nursing staff due to agency staff costs.

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Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT to cluster with Norfolk

2011-02-17T13:23:00Z

STRUCTURE: NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney will form a cluster with NHS Norfolk as part of plans to merge primary care trusts.

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NHS Somerset signs deal with independent provider

2011-02-17T13:21:00Z

COMMERCIAL: NHS Somerset has awarded a contract to UK Specialist Hospitals Ltd.

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Reconfiguration halted in NHS Somerset

2011-02-17T13:15:00Z

STRUCTURE: Plans to centralise gynaecological cancer services in the NHS Somerset area have been shelved after they failed to meet the new reconfiguration tests.

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University Hospitals of Leicester struggling on 18 weeks and stroke

2011-02-17T11:32:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The 18 week referral to treatment target at University Hospitals of Leicester Trust is being impeded by the non availability of critical care beds or normal beds.

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North Lancs seeks to pass budget to three consortia

2011-02-17T11:27:00Z

STRUCTURE: North Lancashire Teaching PCT is seeking to delegate its total funding allocation to three emerging commissioning consortia from April.

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NHS Somerset overspends on bariatric services

2011-02-17T11:25:00Z

FINANCE: A £432,000 overspend by NHS Somerset at Taunton and Somerset FT is mainly down to the provision of bariatric services.

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Buckinghamshire Healthcare rejects PCT call to extend waiting times

2011-02-17T11:24:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Buckinghamshire Healthcare has rejected the local PCTs request to extend waiting times for non-urgent patients.

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Heatherwood and Wexham FT blames PCT for over activity

2011-02-17T11:21:00Z

FINANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals FT has attributed its over activity on Berkshire East PCT’s failure to manage demand and expressed concern at an “unacceptable” delay in payment.

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GPs vote on three consortia for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland

2011-02-17T11:15:00Z

STRUCTURE: GP practices in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland have voted to establish three consortia in shadow form.

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Local government steps in to resolve PCT leadership

2011-02-17T00:00:00Z

STRUCTURE: Local authority chief executives have been drafted in to help fill a leadership vacuum in the North West.

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Quality and finance problems evident in the East

2011-02-17T00:00:00Z

There have been problems of late for acute providers in the East, with two of its foundation trusts in trouble with the Care Quality Commission and another being scrutinised by the strategic health authority.

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Essex PCTs to tackle child safety together

2011-02-17T00:00:00Z

STRUCTURE: Essex’s primary care trusts are expected to come together to form a county-wide clinical network for safeguarding children.

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Cancer tsar offers risk sharing deal for Manchester cancer network

2011-02-17T00:00:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Greater Manchester’s hospitals could share responsibility for meeting cancer hospital the Christie’s 62 day waiting target, under a deal proposed by the government’s cancer tsar.

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Trusts merger will create 'powerful and global brand'

2011-02-17T00:00:00Z

STRUCTURE: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre plan to use their proposed merger to create a “powerful, globally recognised brand”.

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Yorks and North East pathfinders reflect national uncertainty

2011-02-16T18:11:00Z

News about the NHS’s new commissioning system is surfacing across the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber, reflecting discussions across England.

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Kingston Hospital's integrated business plan would see nearly 500 posts deleted

2011-02-15T15:50:00Z

WORKFORCE: A presentation sent to a local primary care trust envisaged cutting 486 posts by 2015/16 through “producitvity plans”.