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Bedford Hospital needs extra CT scanner
FINANCE: Bedford Hospital Trust is to buy or lease an additional CT scanner to cope with rising demand and reduce waiting time.
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Cambridgeshire Community Services predicts £670,000 surplus
FINANCE: Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust is predicting a year end surplus of £670,000, a board meeting heard.
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James Paget misses performance targets
PERFORMANCE: James Paget University Hospital Foundation Trust missed a number of targets over the summer, the council of governors heard.
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NewsGovernment to delay risk register appeal
The government will use its full time to decide whether to appeal a ruling to release a confidential risk register on the Health and Social Care Bill, the Lords has been told.
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NewsObesity experts were axed after policy disagreements
The advisory group on obesity was disbanded by the government after clashes over the direction of policy, it has emerged.
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NewsIntegrated care plans 'will not save money for three years'
Integrated care systems are unlikely to demonstrate financial savings for at least three years, a Nuffield Trust study into Trafford’s pioneering work in the field has said.
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NewsFertility treatment bans reversed by PCTs
A number of primary care trusts which imposed tight restrictions on infertility treatment have now reversed the policy.
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NewsOmbudsman names doctor in swearing row
The Health Service Ombudsman has taken the unusual step of publicly naming a GP who has refused to compensate a patient for causing her distress.
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Your Healthcare plans social care integration with council
STRUCTURE: A leading NHS social enterprise is set to enter into an agreement with its local council to draw up plans to redesign community nursing and social care services.
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AQUA launches COPD care pack
PERFORMANCE: The north west healthcare quality improvement organisation, Advancing Quality Alliance, has launched an “Improving Outcomes Pack” for the care of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Community services boosts financial position at Somerset Partnership
FINANCE: Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust is predicting a year end surplus of £1.5m, but is warning it must take “immeidate action” to control expenditure on mental health wards.
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Competition panel moves to second phase of NHS Peterborough investigation
COMMERCIAL: The NHS Co-operation and Competition Panel is to conduct a more detailed investigation of a complaint that NHS Peterborough breached competition rules in attempting to close a primary care access centre.
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Coventry and Warwickshire deficit hits £8.5m
FINANCE: University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust has run up a deficit of more than £8.5m, with cost improvement plan savings falling behind schedule.
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Pennine Care launches mental health service for veterans
COMMERCIAL: The foundation trust has launched a new service offering mental health support for ex-military personnel in the North West, as part of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme.
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Bradford Teaching Hospitals sees staff assault drop
WORKFORCE: Assaults on Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust staff - at its Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke’s Hospitals sits - fell from 129 in 2009-10 to 94 in 2010-11.
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Durham & Darlington FT launches community palliative care
STRUCTURE: County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust is supporting a community palliative care response team with St Teresa’s Hospice and Marie Curie Cancer Care.
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NewsMonitor to keep financial risk register for every licensed provider
Monitor will operate a financial risk register of every organisation it licenses to provide NHS services, it has revealed.
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NewsExclusive: 'Significant majority' of CCG population will live in its area - minister
Health minister Earl Howe has written to peers giving new details about how clinical commissioning groups’ populations and areas will be decided.
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Guy's breaches excess bed days target for all but one month in 2011-12 so far
PERFORMANCE: The south London acute FT has seen breacehs of its excess bed day target each month this financial year, except May.
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GSTT see steady rise in A&E attendances over past three years
PERFORMANCE: The latest figures from the south London acute show higher numbers of attendances daily this year than last year, for each of the three calendar quarters.