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West Yorkshire cluster names director
WORKFORCE: The West Yorkshire PCT cluster - including Kirklees, Calderdale and Wakefield District PCTs - has announced a series of director appointments.
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Chesterfield Royal sets aside £40,000 for consultants to tell FT 'story'
COMMERCIAL: Chesterfield Royal Foundation Trust is spending up to £40,000 on consultants to help revise its strategies.
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Bare midriffs banned at hospital
WORKFORCE: A hospital trust has warned staff against wearing clothes that expose their “midriff” or “excessive cleavage”.
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King's College Hospital plans 'fully established' commercial directorate in 2013-14
COMMERCIAL: The south London acute trust set out its vision for attracting private patients in its three year plan, which has been sent to Monitor.
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Dorset County agrees £5.3m DH loan
FINANCE: Dorset County Hospitals Foundation Trust has agreed a loan of £5.3m from the Department of Health’s foundation trust financing facility.
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Calderdale missing pressure ulcer reduction target
PERFORMANCE: Calderdale PCT was missing its target for reducing pressure ulcers for the PCT’s patients in 2010-11.
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Government losing its way over reforms - CBI boss
A business leader has accused the government of “losing momentum” over its public sector reforms, which he said had been “derailed”.
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Steve Field warns of clinicians' concerns over health reforms
The chair of the NHS Future Forum has warned that clinicians fear the government’s changes to the Health Bill will slow down the pace of reform in some parts of the health service.
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Commissioning board shouldn’t become ‘greatest quango’ – Nicholson
Sir David Nicholson says he will prevent the NHS Commissioning Board becoming “the greatest quango in the sky” by maintaining an “ambition” for the whole country to be covered by active clinical commissioning groups.
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Nicholson: I feared Lansley’s competition rules
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has confirmed he was against the government’s original proposal for a regulator promoting competition in the NHS, which was dropped this week.
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Commissioners to investigate 'disproportionate' activity rise
PERFORMANCE: Commissioners in west London ordered a report into short stay emergency admissions at their main hospital after becoming suspicious about an activity rise in the run-up to the trust’s Monitor application.
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Acute trust announces its potential merger partners
STRUCTURE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospital Trust on the Surrey/London border has announced Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals Foundation Trust and the Royal Surrey County Hospital FT are interested in merging with Epsom Hospital, with St George’s Healthcare Trust interested in St Helier Hospital.
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Trusts face readmissions penalties totalling £600m
Trusts stand to lose an average of 3 per cent of tariff income as a result of penalties for emergency readmissions, analysis gathered exclusively for HSJ reveals.
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Lower qualified pathology workforce ‘could make 25 per cent savings’
The government’s pathology tsar has said the discipline could save 15-25 per cent of its costs by reducing the proportion of highly qualified staff it uses to perform junior tasks.
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SE London cluster seeks QIPP savings worth £126m from providers
FINANCE: The South Eeast London primary care trust cluster is to take £126m out of its providers in quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings over the next four years.
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Calderstones reports 36 incidents to Health and Safety Executive
PERFORMANCE: The foundation reported 36 incidents leading to injuries which lasted more than three days to the Health and Safety Executive in 2010-11, board papers show.
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Lansley: 'We want to take people with us'
Concessions in the NHS reforms were made under pressure from the medical professions, health secretary Andrew Lansley admitted in a speech to GPs yesterday.
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Rare cancer drugs budget underspent by nearly half
Only 56 per cent of the money allocated for cancer drugs normally unavailable on the NHS was spent in the first six months of a high profile fund, a report has found.
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PFI rethink stalls hospital building plans
Plans to build a number of new hospitals have stalled as trusts await a ministerial decision on whether the government will underwrite private finance initiative deals.
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Consortia rebrand required to 'clearly link' with locality
The creative names chosen by many shadow commissioning consortia – now rebranded clinical commissioning groups – are to disappear under the amendments to the Health Bill.