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Cambs NHS plans mental health reconfig to save £12m
STRUCTURE: The NHS in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough has launched a consultaiton on plans to reconfigure mental health services in the region, aiming to save £12m in the next three years.
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LeaderThe many questions we still need to answer on integration
Integration: what does it mean to you? For some it is an antidote to the evils of competition, for others a way to create a sustainable future for shaky organisations.
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NewsNHS estate spend rising despite lower bed numbers
Spending on maintaining buildings, cleaning hospitals and feeding patients in the NHS has risen by nearly 8 per cent in a year despite a fall in the number of beds, Department of Health figures reveal.
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NHS Herefordshire helps out new ICO
FINANCE: NHS Herefordshire has been supporting Wye Valley Trust with its private finance intitiative payments and “without prejudice” payments for activity above plan.
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Oxford Radcliffe reviews head and neck cancer services
STRUCTURE: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust is to review head and neck cancer services following “concerns and frustrations” expressed by patients and interest groups.
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Delayed transfers at Birmingham Community twice SHA target
PERFORMANCE: Delayed transfers of care at Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust are running at more than twice the NHS West Midlands target.
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NewsSpecialist care housing model losing funding
Specialist housing integrated with care provision may not survive as a long term model for providing care for older people, a report has warned.
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NewsTraining budgets enforcer may lack 'authority'
The body being established to hold trusts to account for how they spend £5bn of education and training funding may lack sufficient “authority”, the Royal College of Nursing has warned.
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Central Manchester FT records five mixed sex breaches
PERFORMANCE: Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust recorded five breaches of the Department of Health’s guidelines on mixed sex accommodation last month.
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Bolton FT records 14 mixed sex breaches for September
PERFORMANCE: Royal Bolton NHS Foundation Trust recorded 14 breaches of the Department of Health’s guidelines on mixed sex accommodation last month.
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Birmingham Community Healthcare chasing PCT for outstanding £587,000
FINANCE: Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust is owed £587,000 by NHS Sandwell, which has failed to repay the money within the 90 day limit.
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Dilnot social care proposals would cost Surrey £100m a year
FINANCE: Implementing the Dilnot report’s recommendations for reforming social care funding would cost Surrey an extra £100m per year, its county council has estimated.
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NewsIndependent NHS screening review launched
An independent review of NHS breast screening is under way after researchers suggested the harms may outweigh the benefits.
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Six mixed sex breaches during September at Countess of Chester
PERFORMANCE: Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust recorded six breaches of the Department of Health’s guidelines on mixed sex accommodation last month.
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Sheffield Hospitals diabetes trial wins £2m funding
COMMERCIAL: A clinical trial being led in Sheffield has won £2m funding to assess a new approach to care for diabetes patients.
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NewsMPs back 'comply or explain' procurement rule
MPs have backed a plan to force hospital trusts to “explain” if they do not buy high value equipment through agreed contracts, in a report critical of the Department of Health for allowing waste.
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NewsHealth Bill: Lords to debate hospital failure, integration and commissioning bonus
Members of the House of Lords have tabled dozens of amendments to the Health Bill which would bring about significant policy change if passed.
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EMAS appoints new chief executive
WORKFORCE: East Midlands Ambulance Service has appointed a former strategic health authority director as its new chief executive.
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No agreement reached on Barnsley CCG arrangements
STRUCTURE: GPs in Barnsley and the South Yorkshire PCT cluster have not yet reached agreement about the structure of clinical commissioning groups in Barnsley.
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NewsTCS social enterprise transfer faces legal challenge
A judge has ordered a primary care trust to halt the planned transfer of its provider arm to a social enterprise, pending the outcome of a High Court hearing.