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NewsHSJ Live: Last day for PCTs and SHAs
Concerns about NHS 111 and all the latest news on the last working day of primary care trusts and strategic health authorities, before they are abolished under the commissioning transition.
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Bridgewater awards occupational health contract to WWL
COMMERCIAL: Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Foundation Trust (WWL) has won a two year contract to provide occupational health services to Bridgewater Community Healthcare Trust, the local community health provider.
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Warrington and Halton offers self-pay for treatments no longer funded by NHS
FINANCE: A hospital trust is offering patients who want a procedure which is not longer available on the NHS the opportunity to pay for it themselves at normal NHS prices.
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NewsFrancis applauds government's response to inquiry
Robert Francis QC has said the government’s initial response to his Mid Staffordshire inquiry report “indicates its determination” to change the culture within the NHS.Mr Francis, who made 290 recommendations following his public inquiry into the failures at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, said the effectiveness of the government’s proposals would ...
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Exclusive: Details emerge of controversial IT funding deals
Details of how controversial deals under which the Department of Health is expected to fund IT systems for NHS trusts have been identified by HSJ, with one trust seeking around £10m, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHS England pledges 'presentational consistency' with DH
The NHS Commissioning Board has said it will need to have “presentational consistency” with government policy as it adopts the name NHS England.
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NewsChanges to hsj.co.uk - please bear with us
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HSJ Local
East of England ambulance chair resigns
WORKFORCE: The chair of troubled East of England Ambulance Service Trust has resigned with immediate effect.
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NewsFrancis response: The teacher barring system coming to NHS management
The government said yesterday that a “barring” regulation system for teachers – introduced last year – could form the basis of a proposed system for senior NHS managers. HSJhas looked at the basics of the Teaching Agency system, and how it might apply in the NHS.
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Morecambe Bay reports £22.5m deficit in January
FINANCE: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust had a deficit of £22.5m at the end of January – just ahead of the plan of £22.7m. The trust had received £2.5m of transitional support from North Lancashire PCT.
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HSJ Local
Tees MH trust begins £14m redevelopment
SERVICE DESIGN: A £13.8 million scheme to develop Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust’s West Lane Hospital site in Middlebrough has started.
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HSJ Local
Sussex Community Trust redesigns safeguarding training
WORKFORCE: Sussex Community Trust is redesigning some of its training in safeguarding children because of unacceptably low number of staff being appropriately trained.
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HSJ Local
Trust investigates streptococcal infections at Crawley Hospital
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Community Trust is investigating how nine patients on a ward at Crawley Hospital came to contract a group A streptococcal (GAS) infection.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells 'grossly' over activity
FINANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust is ‘grossly’ overperforming on contracts with its main commissioners with a £26m overspend to the end of month 11. The vast majority of this is with West Kent PCT.
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HSJ Local
Eastbourne CCG requires £18.4m savings next year
FINANCE: Eastbourne. Hailsham and Seaford CCG will need to make £18.4m savings in the next financial year – most of that in the acute sector.
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HSJ Local
Long waits for CAMH in Kent and Medway
PERFORMANCE: Young people with mental health problems in Kent are having to wait more than six months for a specialist assessment.
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HSJ Local
Kent and Medway reports QIPP slip
FINANCE: Only 55 per cent of planned QIPP savings of £57m were delivered in Kent and Medway to the end of January.
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HSJ Local
Brighton and Sussex reconsidering whistleblowing policy
WORKFORCE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust is considering reshaping its approach to whistleblowing.
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HSJ Local
BSUH within C Difficile target
PERFORMANCE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has seen higher rates of C Difficile infection in February and March although it remains well within its target of no more than 71 cases for the year at just 46.
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HSJ Local
Severe A&E pressure at Brighton and Sussex
PERFORMANCE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has had 34 12 hour trolley waits since January – and has had to declare ‘major incidents’ twice because of the severe pressure on A&E.