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Environment remains a ‘challenge’ for Kent and Medway Partnership
PERFORMANCE: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has admitted that it still has environment issues at one of its units.
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HSJ LocalSHA questions Luton and Bedfordshire QIPP plans
FINANCE: NHS East of England has raised a series of concerns over plans for quality and productivity savings by a primary care trust cluster in its region.
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Barking, Havering and Redbridge has until Friday to rectify maternity problems
PERFORMANCE: A Care Quality Commission inspection at the acute trust has found some of the equipment necessary for safe care, including devices for monitoring contractions were “unavailable, poorly maintained, or not working”.
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NewsConfederation appoints new chief executive
The NHS Confederation has announced that Mike Farrar is to be its new chief executive.
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Mid Essex approves social enterprise
STRUCTURE: NHS Mid Essex’s board has approved the primary care trust’s provider arm application to form as a social enterprise.
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CQC raises new concerns at Milton Keynes Hospital
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has recognised progress in Milton Keynes Hospital’s midwifery services, but said the trust fails to meet essential standards in other areas
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Barnsley consortia 'can't become pathfinders'
STRUCTURE: Two GP groups within Barnsley cannot become pathfinders because of they are not geographically defined, their primary care trust has reported. It has established a GP commissioning transition group as a formal sub-committee of its board.
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PCT agrees transfer of entire estate to aspirant CFT
COMMERCIAL: An aspirant community foundation trust on the south coast has launched a bid to take over the entire estates of its two commissioning primary care trusts.
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Front line 'must be NHS priority'
Health minister Simon Burns has insisted that the NHS must make frontline services a “priority” as new figures were released by a union showing clinical staff accounting for half of planned job losses in the health service.
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NewsClegg aide threatens to quit over reforms
One of Nick Clegg’s closest allies has threatened to quit unless the government slows down the pace of its controversial NHS reforms.
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NewsTrusts in royal wedding pay row
More than 100 trusts in England are refusing to give enhanced pay rates to staff who work on the day of the royal wedding later this month, union leaders have complained.
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NewsCapita to buy Tribal's health business
Tribal is to set to sell its health and government business to rivals Capita for £15.87m, it has been announced.
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HSJ Local
Southport and Ormskirk plans £8.6m savings for 2011-12
FINANCE: The trust aims to make efficiency savings of 5 per cent in 2011-12, or £8.6m, its draft budget for the year states.
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Staff cost overspend at Coventry and Warwickshire mental health trust
WORKFORCE: Nursing costs for mental health inpatient wards at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust were overspent by over £1m in February.
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Suspension of births at Winchester and Eastleigh birthing centre to continue
STRUCTURE: Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare Trust is to continue with the suspension of births at the Andover Birthing Centre while a review of the service’s future is carried out.
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Coventry and Warwickshire mental health trust asks for CQUIN exclusions
FINANCE: Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust has asked its primary care trust to discount children and adolescent mental health (CAMH) performance from its commissioning for quality and innovation (CQUIN) scheme.
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King's College Hospital makes HCAIs top priority for 2011-12
PERFORMANCE: The south London acute had reported 16 MRSA bacteraemias at the end of month 11, nearly double its target of eight.
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Scarborough trust given no foundation trust date
STRUCTURE: Scarborough & North East Yorkshire Healthcare Trust has not been given a date for becoming a foundation trust.
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East Cheshire Trust will need to cut costs by 8 per cent this year
FINANCE: The trust will have to cut its costs by 8 per cent to hit its surplus target for 2011-12, its draft business plan shows.