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Out-of-hours provider issued with performance notice
PERFORMANCE Out-of-hours provider Urgent Care Cambridgeshire has been issued with a performance notice by NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough after it failed to need the national quality requirement for routine telephone assessment over three months.
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG plans to provide commissioning support in-house
STRUCTURE: The proposed shadow Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG is planning to provide most of its support functions in-house - but may purchase some back office functions externally.
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Cambridge and Hinchingbrooke fall below 95pc A&E threshold
PERFORMANCE: Both Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust and Hinchingbrooke Healthcare Trust fell below the 95 per cent standard for four hour waits in A&E in January.
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Bedford must save nearly £17m
FINANCE: Bedford Hospital Trust will need to make cost reductions totalling £16.9m in 2012-13 just to break even.
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital forecasts red rating over performance
PERFORMANCE: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn, Foundation Trust is forecasting it will be red-rated on performance by Monitor at the end of this quarter.
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Cluster turns down majority of individual funding requests
PEFORMANCE: Figures from the cluster showed 42 of 76 cases received between April 26 2011 and February 9 2012 were declined.
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NHS Enfield hopes to save £1m with end of life care programme
PERFORMANCE: The north London PCT hopes to increase the number of people able to die at home and save money over three years with an awareness campaign and a “rapid response Palliative Care Community Support Service”.
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Royal Free faces £25.6m disinvestment from cluster
FINANCE: The north London acute faces a disinvestment under the North Central London cluster’s QIPP programme of £25.6m over the next three years.
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Mental health shake-up in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
STRUCTURE: Mental health services are to undergo a major change in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough including the establishment of a 24/7 advice and referral centre to provide a single point of access.
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Competitive procurement for Peterborough's integrated urgent care service
STRUCTURE: NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough will go out to competitive procurement for an integrated urgent care service in Peterborough under its primary care and urgent care strategy.
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Norfolk and Norwich fails to hit four-hour standard
PERFORMANCE: The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Trust has failed to meet the four hour standard for A&E for January, February and March so far.
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Norfolk predicts £1m surplus
FINANCE: £20m of delayed investments will enable NHS Norfolk to return a £1m projected surplus this financial year.
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Bedford to continue hosting Milton Keynes Community Health Services
STRUCTURE: Bedford Hospital Trust is continuing to host Milton Keynes Community Health Services while a decision is made on its future.
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Ann Tate to chair Ipswich
WORKFORCE: Ann Tate has been appointed the new chair at Ipswich Hospital Trust.
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Ex-BT man joins East and North Herts
WORKFORCE: Former BT director Ian Morfett is to become chairman of East and North Hertfordshire Trust in April.
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North Essex's surplus is £0.5m ahead of plan
FINANCE: North Essex Partnership Foundation Trust was £1.64m in surplus at the end of January - £529,000 ahead of plan.
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Queen Elizabeth's record keeping criticised by CQC
PERFORMANCE: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn has been criticised by the Care Quality Commission over its record keeping.
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Residential care spend for learning disabilities varies over borough boundaries
PERFORMANCE: Preliminary findings from a review showed that the residential care spend for people with learning disabilities was three times higher in Enfield and Haringey than the rest of the PCT cluster
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Camden and Islington's performance beats north London counterpart
PERFORMANCE: A performance report to the board of the North Central London cluster found the trust’s performance on inpatient length of stay and staff sickness were better than at Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust.
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Moorfields faces £1.7m disinvestment from cluster
FINANCE: The east London specialist trust faces a £1.7m disinvestment from the North Central London PCT cluster over the next three years.