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NewsMixed sex ward breaches drop under tougher regime
Mixed sex accommodation breaches have dropped sharply since the launch of a tougher performance regime four months ago
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Cash-strapped PCT escapes budget topslice
FINANCE: One of England’s most financially troubled primary care trusts cannot guarantee it will meet the national requirement to hold 2 per cent of its funding back from routine spending.
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NewsInformation strategy could be delayed by listening exercise - Connelly
The Department of Health’s information chief has told HSJ that her long awaited information strategy could yet be amended if the NHS Future Forum recommends a softer line on transparency to secure the support of clinicians.
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UCLH commits to financial risk rating of at least three for 2011-12
FINANCE: The central London foundation trust pledged to stay in the lowest three categories of financial risk maintained by FT regulator Monitor - despite challenges from commissioners.
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LeaderThe CQC is feeling the pressure as rising uncertainty takes its toll
There has been so much focus on the future role of Monitor that almost no attention has been paid to how the NHS’s other regulator, the Care Quality Commission, is coping with the challenges of reform and tighter budgets.
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NewsSqueezed trusts received £28m in 'sweetener' loans
Three struggling acute providers set to be acquired by other trusts received £28m of “sweetener” loans from the Department of Health, HSJ can disclose.
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Southampton hospital already behind on CIP
FINANCE: Southampton University Hospitals Trust slipped significantly behind its cost improvement plan for April, while its financial indicators were rated red under the Monitor compliance framework.
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NewsPublic health funding cut threatens skilled staff
Valuable health intelligence expertise is facing “fragmentation and dissolution”, following a 30 per cent cut in the core funding of public health observatories, MPs have been warned.
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NewsMore patients waiting longer for diagnostic tests
The number of patients waiting more than six weeks for diagnostic tests has almost tripled in the past year.
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PCTs step up transfer of responsibility to consortia
STRUCTURE: Primary care trusts in the North East are starting to delegate authority to commissioning consortia.
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NewsCQC attacks NHS elderly care levels
Inspections into care standards have raised serious concerns about the way NHS hospitals treat elderly people.
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Kingston Hospital still predicting surplus after April deficit
FINANCE: The south west London trust anticipates making a £2.1m surplus in 2011-12, in spite of the the £1.2 deficit for April.
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NewsApproval for £77m hospital redevelopment
Initial plans for a multimillion-pound redevelopment of a North Wales hospital were approved by the assembly’s health minister Lesley Griffiths.
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Southampton PCT identifies reforms pace as 'catastrophic risk'
PERFORMANCE: NHS Southampton City has said the rapid structural reforms to the NHS reforms could distract from improving the population’s health, while the area’s health economy risks being unsustainable in the long term.
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NewsTrust issues 18,600 parking fines in 12 months
More than 18,600 parking penalties were issued by three hospitals during 2010, according to consumer group Which?.
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NewsClegg denies NHS reform profit motive
Nick Clegg has insisted the government’s healthcare reforms did not amount to NHS privatisation.
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Former PCT chair joins Poole Hospital FT
WORKFORCE: Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has announced Angela Schofield as its new chair, replacing interim Dame Yvonne Moores.
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South coast cluster reveals key appointments
WORKFORCE: The primary care trust cluster covering Southampton, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth has annouced two key board-level appointments.
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NewsHead of UK's biggest private provider 'more excited than ever' about NHS reforms
The head of the UK’s largest private healthcare group has insisted it would be “madness” to prohibit price competition in the NHS, and insisted he does want to compete on price with NHS hospitals.
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Results of Western Sussex reconfiguration consultation due next month
STRUCTURE: Responses to a consultation over the planned reconfiguration of ophthalmology and orthopaedic services are currently being analysed, with results expected next month.