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Northern Devon puts back FT application a second time
STRUCTURE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust is seeking a revised submission date for its foundation trust application, strategic health authority board papers reveal.
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Lack of management capacity hits Coventry QIPP
FINANCE: Coventry’s quality, innovation, productivity and prevention programme is forecast to under-achieve by £3.08m – in part due to a lack of project management capacity.
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South Warwickshire CCG loses grip on QIPP
FINANCE: South Warwickshire clinical commissioning group has admitted that it did not know whether some of its local efficiency schemes were working.
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Bournemouth healthcheck deal breaches data protection act
PERFORMANCE: NHS Bournemouth and Poole has been found guilty of breaching the Data Protection Act for passing patient information to a company it had commissioned to carry out NHS health checks.
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Royal Wolverhampton charges disabled to park
FINANCE: Free parking for disabled people has been scrapped at a Midlands hospital with parking charges for short-stay visitors being doubled.
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Mortality rate falls at George Eliot
PERFORMANCE: Reported death rates at George Eliot Hospital have fallen after the “rebasing” of the Dr Foster mortality measure.
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George Eliot gets top marks on PEAT
PERFORMANCE: George Eliot Hospital Trust has scored top marks across the board in this year’s annual patient environmental action team (PEAT) scores.
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DTOCs soar at South Warwickshire
PERFORMANCE: Delayed discharges are far above target at South Warwickshire Foundation Trust.
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Wexham Park Hospital expands AMU
STRUCTURE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust is investing more than £2.5m in reconfiguring wards, in anticipation of a rise in emergency attendances.
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Lincolnshire CCG accountable officers named
STRUCTURE: The designate accountable officers of the four clinical commissioning groups within Lincolnshire PCT have been announced.
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'Extreme' risk George Eliot will be unable to agree CIP
FINANCE: George Eliot Hospital Trust has recorded an “extreme” risk that it will be unable to agree its cost improvement plan for the current financial year.
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George Eliot £2.5m in the red amid rising demand
FINANCE: George Eliot Hospital Trust was £2.5m in the red at the end of August, £2.2m worse than planned.
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Winter beds remain open as South Warwickshire demand rockets
PERFORMANCE: An 11.5 per cent rise in emergency admissions has prevented South Warwickshire Foundation Trust from closing winter capacity as planned.
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'Outstanding turnaround' in stroke care at George Eliot
PERFORMANCE: George Eliot Hospital has reported an “outstanding turnaround” in it stroke performance.
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NewsPublic sector tax arrangements under fire
MPs have criticised the tax arrangements of some public sector workers.
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NewsHealth service in 'distress' after reforms
Government reforms have left the NHS in “distress”, GP leaders have said.
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Six outstanding patient safety alerts at Aintree
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s commissioners have reported that it has six overdue patient safety alerts.
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South West ambulance merger gets the go ahead
STRUCTURE: NHS South of England has approved the acquisition of Great Western Ambulance Service by South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust.
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Provisional data shows RTT waiting targets underperformance at Walton centre
PERFORMANCE: Provisional June data shows “underperformance” by the Walton Centre against national 18 week referral-to-treatment waiting targets, NHS Merseyside’s latest performance report states.
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Patient leaflets help reduce PCT waiting times by half
PERFORMANCE: A pilot project between Wolverhampton City PCT and charity Arthritis Research UK has halved waiting times for physiotherapy appointments and improved patient satisfaction.