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North East London FT predicts finance score will fall this year
FINANCE: North East London Foundation Trust predicts its Financial Risk Rating score with Monitor will fall from four to three this year.
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Mental health trust looks at savings through bed cutting
PERFORMANCE: The north central London mental health provider Camden and Islington Foundation Trust has “savings requirements” of £6.6m in 2012-13 and 2013-14, according to a document it submitted to the foundation trust regulator.
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Royal Free London plans to maintain second highest finance rating
FINANCE: The Royal Free London Foundation Trust is planning to maintain its financial risk rating score with Monitor at four until at least the end of 2014-15.
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NE London FT plans savings of £52m by end of 2014-15
FINANCE: North East London Foundation Trust are planning on making cost improvement programme savings of £52m over this and the next two financial years.
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Northumbria invests £700k in elderly care nurses
WORKFORCE: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has announced it will recruit 30 registered nurses to work with elderly patients in hospitals and the community.
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Doncaster and Bassetlaw FT holding governor election
STRUCTURE: Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is holding an election for governor positions this month.
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UCLH estates director moving to new job
WORKFORCE: Director of estates and facilities at University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust Trevor Payne is to take up the equivalent job at Barts Health Trust.
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NW midwives volunteer in overseas aid programme
WORKFORCE: UK midwives, largely from the North West, are volunteering to provide training in Africa and Asia UK under a programme run by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
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Hillingdon Hospitals plans to reduce caesarian rate
PERFORMANCE: Hillingdonn Hospitals Foundation Trust hope to reduce their caesarian section rate to 27.6 per cent over the next two years, a report said.
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East London FT faces ongoing problems on women's intensive care
PERFORMANCE: The East London Foundation Trust is working to address continuing problems with the “provision of [a] Female Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit”.
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St George's and university appoint joint estates director
WORKFORCE: Neal Deans has been appointed as joint director of estates and facilities for St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust and St George’s, University of London.
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NewsNicholson orders trusts to offer approved drugs
All NHS organisations have been ordered to publish details of which drugs they will routinely fund in a bid to make sure patients get medicines they are legally entitled to.
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NewsBed waiting times soar for A&E admissions
The number of patients waiting more than four hours in emergency departments for a bed to become available has rocketed in the past year, HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsEmergency services feel strain of telephone trial
A telephone triage system developed by Connecting for Health to direct patients to the most appropriate forms of care appears to be increasing pressure on emergency services, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsNHS 'could save £462m' on over-65s
The NHS could save nearly half a billion pounds annually by reducing emergency admissions and hospital stays among older patients, according to a King’s Fund report shared with HSJ.
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NewsClinical assessment service joins litigation authority
The body that deals with concerns over the professional practice of doctors, pharmacists and dentists is to become an operating division of the NHS Litigation Authority.
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Leader‘Novel and contentious’
The NHS rethinks its funding options in a developing picture which is far from uniform
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Somerset Partnership in joint working discussions
STRUCTURE: The chair and chief executive of Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust have met with their counterparts at Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust to discuss potential for joint working.
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Somerset Partnership reports high levels of emergency readmissions
PERFORMANCE: More than 12 per cent of psychiatric patients at Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust were readmitted as a psychiatric emergency within 28 days of discharge during June 2012.
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NewsPension funds to bankroll £298m hospital in finance first
Two pension funds have offered to finance a foundation trust’s new hospital in what could emerge as an alternative to conventional sources of private capital.