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NHS Surrey names 11 consortia
STRUCTURE: Surrey primary care trust has named 11 emerging commissioning consortia in its area.
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NHS Worcestershire to delegate £593m to consortia
STRUCTURE: Worcestershire primary care trust is planning to delegate £593m to three commissioning consortia from April - about 70 per cent of its budget.
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Sutton and Merton to delegate upwards of £309m
STRUCTURE: Sutton and Merton primary care trust is planning to delegate most commissioning to two consortia - The Sutton Consortium and The Federation - from April.
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South Gloucestershire PCT planning with single consortium
STRUCTURE: South Gloucestershire primary care trust is in the early stages of planning a single commissioning consortium for the patch.
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Manchester PCT looks to delegate £696m commissioning
STRUCTURE: Manchester primary care trust is planning to delegate £696m spending - around 70 per cent of its budget - to its emerging commissioning consortia from April.
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South Birmingham PCT delegating to three consortia
STRUCTURE: South Birmigham primary care trust is in the process of delegating functions to three emerging commissioning consortia.
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Oral surgery backlog at Heatherwood and Wexham Park FT
PERFORMANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park FT’s oral surgery department is underperforming due to “chronic capacity problems”, its board has been told.
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North Essex mental health trust takes on Suffolk community services
STRUCTURE: North Essex Partnership FT has been appointed as the interim host for Suffolk Community Healthcare, the community services arm of NHS Suffolk.
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Mid Staffs faces ‘worst case scenario’ of cash deficit
FINANCE: The foundation trust was reporting a deficit of £5.8m in November against a planned deficit of £4.3m, representing a negative variance of £1.5m.
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Mid Staffs making ‘significant progress’ on nurse recruitment
WORKFORCE: The foundation has continued to increase its workforce, particularly for nursing staff, despite media coverage of the ongoing public inquiry into previous failures at the organisation.
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North Staffordshire forecasting retained £1.9m deficit
FINANCE: North Staffordshire is forecasting a year-end deficit of £1.89m.
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North Staffs mental health trust way behind on staff appraisals
WORKFORCE: The mental health trust has fallen significantly behind on its target for staff performance development reviews.
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Lambeth eyes one consortium with three localities
STRUCTURE: A single commissioning consortium containing three locality groups is emerging in Lambeth.
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South Staffs and Shropshire FT on course for surplus
FINANCE: The mental health foundation trust is forecasting a year-end surplus – though slightly smaller than originally planned.
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Staffs and Shropshire FT comms team drives down costs
FINANCE: The mental health FT’s communications team has slashed the cost of producing its annual report over the last three years.
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NewsNHS warned to expect surge in clinical negligence claims
The NHS faces a “massive” increase in clinical negligence claims this year, the chief executive of the NHS Litigation Authority has told MPs.
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NewsPCTs fail to make half of savings targets
Primary care trusts are predicting they will miss their savings targets by up to 56 per cent this year, analysis by HSJ has found.
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NewsNational competency standards to regulate manager performance
Senior managers “who let people down” will be held to account by a national list of standards of competence and behaviour.
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News53,000 NHS jobs 'under threat'
More than 50,000 NHS jobs face being axed, including doctors, nurses and dentists, because of government spending cuts, “destroying” claims about the funding of the health service, a new report claims.
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NewsPCT cluster retracts threat to cut public health posts
A primary care trust cluster in London has retracted letters sent to public health staff warning them their posts were “at risk”, after a minister publicly said it was wrong.