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Herts acute trust still predicting surplus
FINANCE: East and North Herts Trust is still predicting a £3.5m surplus this year.
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EoE ambulance trust behind on CIP plan
FINANCE: Cost improvement plans at East of England Ambulance Services Trust were more than £2m behind schedule at the end of month 10.
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Ambulance trust signs up to green scheme
FINANCE: The East of England Ambulance Service Trust has signed up to an ambitious carbon reduction plan which commits it to reducing emissions by 30 per cent by March 2016.
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New research focus at James Paget
STRUCTURE: James Paget University Hospitals Foundation Trust is looking at strengthening clinical research, the board of governors was told.
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New adolescent cancer unit opens at Addenbrookes
STRUCTURE: A new teenage cancer unit has opened at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.
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Minister praises VTE work at Colchester
PERFORMANCE: Colchester General Hospital has been praised by health minister Simon Burns for its work on preventing avoidable blood clots.
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Palliative care centre planned at James Paget
STRUCTURE: A new palliative care information and outreach centre is to be built at the James Paget Hospital.
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NewsPickles backs NHS workers' 'right to wear cross'
Cabinet minister Eric Pickles has supported demands for Christians to be allowed to wear crosses at work as two NHS workers take their case to Strasbourg.
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Branch surgery at risk in Norfolk
STRUCTURE: NHS Norfolk and Waveney is talking to different healthcare providers about keeping a surgery in New Costessey, four miles outside Norwich, open.
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East London hospital trust sets new record for ambulance handover delays
PERFORMANCE: Barking, Havering, Redbridge University Hospitals Trust saw 120 “black breaches” - cases where patients are left waiting an hour or more in an ambulance because they are unable to admit them - in just one week.
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Independent probe underway of Pennine Acute FT bid
PERFORMANCE: An independent review has been commissioned of the trust’s progress towards foundation status, the NHS North of England finance director reported.
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NHS Trafford puts community services up for tender
COMMERCIAL: The primary care trust has launched a tender process for organisations seeking to take over its community services.
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Trust considered forcing staff to have flu jabs
A leading foundation trust considered whether the flu jab could be made compulsory for staff.
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NewsLib Dem vote against support for bill puts more pressure on peers
Liberal Democrat peers are under pressure to make more changes to the Health Bill after a manoeuvre by the party’s leadership in support of the bill backfired at its spring conference on Sunday.
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: the reconfiguration plan for Greater Manchester's hospitals
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of the key issues facing the NHS’s major health economies. This week: acute reconfiguration in Greater Manchester.
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East London trust defies commissioners and plans for 9,000 births
PERFORMANCE: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust is anticipating 9,000 births across its two sites in 2012-13, board papers said.
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'Fundamental capacity issue' at trust with worst A&E performance
PERFORMANCE: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust recorded the worst performance in London for A&E based on the latest figures and minutes of the January meeting.
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Recruitment search starts as trust seeks to install temporary chair
WORKFORCE: Royal Berkshire Hospital Foundation Trust is to begin the process of appointing a new chair after the sudden departure of Colin Maclean.
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Sussex Partnership falling behind on savings
FINANCE: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust was around £2.4m behind its savings target in January, according to latest board papers.
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SHA report: Southport and Ormskirk missed "covenant tests" for FT bid
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s bid for foundation status has been marked amber-red in the latest NHS North of England provider development report.