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Birmingham cluster predicts £26m QIPP shortfall
FINANCE: Birmingham and Solihull primary care trust cluster has predicted a £26m shortfall on efficiency savings against a target of £58m.
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Major staff savings plan poses risk at Leeds trust
FINANCE: Potential underachievement of a larged planned saving on workforce costs poses a financial risk to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
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MSA breaches at Warrington and Halton
PERFORMANCE: Lastest board papers reveal breaches of the government’s rules on mixed sex accomodation earlier this year at Warrington and Halton Hopsitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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Ashford and St Peter’s improves on four-hour A&E target
PERFORMANCE: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital Foundation Trust was meeting the four-hour target for accident and emergency waits by the end of the first quarter of 2012-13, according to board papers.
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Major capital project set to start at Ashford
STRUCTURE: A £2.8m refurbishment of the outpatients department at Ashford Hospital is scheduled to begin on 13 August, according to board papers.
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Under-resourced SHA holds up FT progress in Leeds
STRUCTURE: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is continuing work on an integrated business plan, with the aim of gaining foundation status, but it has been held up by a lack of staff at its overseeing strategic health authority.
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Leeds and Bradford to be designated centre for rare respiratory condition
STRUCTURE: Leeds Children’s Hospital – part of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust – has been named one of four national centres for children with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia in a collaboration with Bradford Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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Health needs of young carers assessed
PERFORMANCE: NHS Surrey and a charity are surveying young carers to identify their health needs and inform future commissioning.
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New ambulance prep centre opened
STRUCTURE: South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust has opened a Make Ready Centre in Ashford.
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Bradford District Care Trust begins IT integration
COMMERCIAL: Bradford District Care Trust has begun an integration of two clinical IT systems.
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Cumbria council launches £300,000 health and wellbeing fund
FINANCE: Cumbria county council has launched a £300,000 grant fund to support community health and wellbeing projects in Eden and Allerdale.
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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals opens new clinical trials facility
RESEARCH: Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has opened a new dedicated clinical trials facility, in place of its former practice of undertaking research on wards, it has reported.
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NewsTrusts face higher pension costs so frontline staff can retire early
NHS trusts could have to pay higher pension contributions for some staff groups so they can retire earlier, HSJ has learned.
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NewsLeaders of aspiring FTs receive confidential help to improve
More than 20 hospital trust boards have signed up to a leadership training programme which they hope will help them make efficiency savings and achieve foundation status, HSJ has learned.
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Treasury scrutinises Northumbria PFI buyout plan
FINANCE: The Treasury is expected to issue advice to regulator Monitor “shortly” on the first ever attempt by a foundation trust to use local authority borrowing to refinance its private finance initiative contracts.
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Bolton FT may need extra funding, regulator warns
FINANCE: The foundation trust’s liquidity is forecast to come under “significant pressure” in the third quarter of 2012-13 and it “may require additional funding”, Monitor warned on 2 August.
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Kent commissioners use £10m reserves to maintain surplus
FINANCE: The primary care trust cluster and clinical commissioning groups in Kent and Medway are turning to contingencies to maintain a surplus.
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Poor infection control highlighted at Mid Yorks Trust
PERFORMANCE: Serious shortcomings in infection control have been discovered at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust, including nurses having to carry out routine cleaning due to a lack of cleaning provision.
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NewsNorth Staffordshire trust fined again over waiting time failures
University Hospital of North Staffordshire has been fined £2.5m by commissioners for its continued failure to hit a key accident and emergency target.
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NewsCommissioning board encourages CCG contract and risk sharing
The NHS Commissioning Board has published guidance highlighting the benefits of - and options for - clinical commissioning groups collaborating to share contracts with providers and pool financial risk.