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NHS Enfield misses stop smoking target for quarter one
PERFORMANCE: NHS Enfield missed its target for getting smokers to quit for quarter one, achieving 281 against a target of 300.
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St George's to join King's Health Partners
STRUCTURE: St George’s Healthcare Trust is to join the King’s Health Partners Academic Health Science Network.
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NHS Enfield 'risks £7.6m year-end deficit'
FINANCE: NHS Enfield will end 2012-13 with a £7.6m deficit on current projections if “further actions” are not taken.
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NHS Barnet 'risks £8m year-end deficit'
FINANCE: NHS Barnet will end 2012-13 with an £8m deficit on current projections if “further actions” are not taken.
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NHS Haringey 'risks £8.3m year-end deficit'
FINANCE: NHS Haringey will end 2012-13 with an £8.3m deficit on current projections if “further actions” are not taken.
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NHS Camden stop-smoking rates below target
PERFORMANCE; NHS Camden was one of three boroughs in the North Central London primary care trust cluster to miss its stop smoking target in the first quarter of 2012-13.
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NewsCircle planned cut of 20pc of staff at Hinchingbrooke
Circle’s original business plan for its running of Hinchingbrooke Healthcare Trust outlined a cut in the hospital’s workforce of 20 per cent, a document shared with HSJ reveals.
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NewsCQC staff survey shows morale still low
Just 16 per cent of staff at the Care Quality Commission think morale is good while less than a fifth think changes are effectively implemented, the organisation’s latest staff survey reveals.
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NewsCash for end-of-life hospitals
Eighty-five per cent of trusts have adopted a controversial end-of-life care regime which can involve withholding food and drink from terminally-ill patients, figures suggest.
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NewsMonitor vows to improve 'not fit for purpose' pricing system
Monitor has vowed to improve the NHS treatment pricing system after a King’s Fund report said the payment by results system was “not fit for purpose”.
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Buckinghamshire CCGs overspend by £1.3m on elective care
FINANCE: Buckinghamshire’s clinical commissioning groups have reported an overspend on planned care of £1.3m in the year to date.
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NewsBMA concerned at tools manufacture
Some of the medical equipment used in the NHS is manufactured in “unhealthy, unsafe and unfair” working conditions where employees are exposed to serious risks, the British Medical Association said.
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NewsHSJ Live: rolling news 2.11.12
All the day’s news including a King’s Fund report says tariff is “not fit for our current and future needs”
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NewsExclusive: GP practices' huge income variation revealed
Some GP practices are paid substantially more than others, regardless of the number and type of patients they serve, HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsMonitor and DH work on bailout formula
Monitor and the Department of Health are working to devise a formula determining when troubled foundation trusts receive financial bailouts.
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NewsRevealed: the cost of standardising practices' core income
Standardising practices’ “core” income would mean a shift in funding worth about a quarter of a billion pounds, HSJ has estimated.
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NewsNHS London reviews controversial hospital productivity analysis
NHS London is re-examining a controversial analysis which concluded the capital’s hospital sector was “not sustainable in [its] present form”.
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NewsEpsom and St Helier may be next for failure regime after merger talks fail
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust may be the next to enter the failure regime, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalBristol children's cardiac ward where patient died was understaffed
PERFORMANCE: Managers at University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust have been criticised by the Care Quality Commission for failing to address long running staffing issues on a ward for seriously ill children.