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Kent acutes given more time to provide merger evidence
STRUCTURE: Two acute trusts that are seeking to merge have been given more time by the Cooperation and Competition Panel to provide information to support their case.
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Sussex trust fights back over reconfig plan criticism
STRUCTURE: A Sussex acute and community trust has fought back following criticism of its reconfiguration plans from its own consultants and two local campaign groups backed by the media.
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NewsSurgeon calls for obesity surgery to be prioritised over end of life cancer drugs
A surgeon has suggested that it might be better to spend NHS funds on surgery for obese patients than on palliative care for the terminally ill.
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Commissioning board local director to take up acute chief exec post
WORKFORCE: An experienced primary care trust chief executive who was named a local area team director on the NHS Commissioning Board less than three weeks ago is now to take up a post as a hospital chief executive.
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Staffordshire Partnership launches FT consultation
STRUCTURE: People living in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent are being urged to have their say on future plans for Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership Trust.
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NW Ambulance Service begins trauma investment ahead of funding agreement
STRUCTURE: North West Ambulance Service Trust has begun investment in additional staff and vehicles needed to establish major trauma networks ahead of funding confirmation from commissioners, according to latest board reports.
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Record keeping concerns remain at Ashford and St Peter’s
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has declared that Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is now compliant on five out of six quality indicators.
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Torbay fined over information breach
PERFORMANCE: Torbay Care Trust has been fined £175,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office after the sensitive details of more than 1,000 employees were accidentally published on the trust’s website.
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SHIP cluster overlooks bank holiday impact on activity levels
PERFORMANCE: Activity levels in the Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth primary care trust cluster area continue to be up on last year and higher than planned.
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Hampshire providers struggle on emergency target
PERFORMANCE: Providers in the Hampshire area have struggled to meet the four hour accident and emergency waiting times target in quarter one of 2012-13.
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Ashford and St Peter’s pens new ‘healthy’ catering contract
COMMERCIAL: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has launched new “Essential Goodness” menus and food, in partnership with catering contractor OCS.
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Blackburn with Darwen Teaching had highest sickness absence in Lancs
WORKFORCE: Blackburn with Darwen Teaching Care Trust Plus had the highest level of sickness absence in Lancashire in March, shows the second workforce report for the whole county.
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Lancashire Teaching Hospitals FT hits A&E target despite pressures
[UPDATED] PERFORMANCE: Emergency services at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals FT hit the four hour A&E waiting time target in June, board papers show.
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Incomplete pathways increase at NHS Halton and St Helens
PERFORMANCE: Halton and St Helens PCT has seen an increase in patients waiting for treatment, with 7 per cent more than planned in April, shows a report to the NHS Merseyside PCT cluster.
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Breaches of cancer wait at Halton and St Helens
PERFORMANCE: Halton and St Helens PCT failed to hit a target to ensure 85 per cent of all cancer patients are treated within two months of urgent GP referral in April, show PCT cluster board papers.
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Countess of Chester appoints former NHS chief exec as chair
WORKFORCE: The foundation trust has appointed former NHS chief executive Sir Duncan Nichol to be its new chair, it reported last week.
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Late referrals mean Liverpool Heart and Chest underperforms on cancer waits
PERFORMANCE: Late referrals from other trusts contributed to Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital’s failure to hit cancer treatment waiting time targets in April this year, commissioner board papers show.
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NHS Sefton misses 62-day cancer target
PERFORMANCE: Sefton PCT did not achieve a target to ensure 90 per of cancer patients were treated within 62 days after screening, says a report to the Merseyside PCT cluster.
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Pennine Care nearly doubled in size through TCS
FINANCE: The foundation trust nearly doubled its turnover in 2011-12 through the Transforming Community Services programme of transferring commissioners’ provider arms, its annual report shows.
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Trust sees surge in bowel cancer referrals due to DH campaign
PERFORMANCE: Southport and Ormskirk Hospital Trust failed to hit a target for the two-week cancer wait by three patients after a surge in suspected bowel cancer referrals, shows a performance report to the Merseyside PCT cluster.