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Royal Cornwall Hospital fined over 18 weeks backlog
PERFORMANCE: The Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust has been fined nearly £1m so far this year for failing to meet referral-to-treatment times.
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NHS Cornwall slipping on QIPP
FINANCE: NHS Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly is seeing a worrying slippage on QIPP schemes in both acute and primary care.
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LeaderThe mediocre will be the only losers if pay is reformed fairly
George Osborne has instructed the NHS pay review body to investigate the case for reforming the service’s national pay deal. The chancellor wants it to become more “market facing in local areas”.
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NewsAcute trusts risk understaffing as short notice requests increase
Acute trusts without foundation status are increasingly putting staffing levels at risk by waiting too long to request temporary bank workers.
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NewsScrapped NHS IT System to cost a further £2bn
The American company behind the National Programme for IT has predicted it will earn up to another £2bn from its work with the NHS.
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Swindon PCT looking for extra savings
FINANCE: NHS Swindon is developing £4m of additional savings plans after it used up all its contingency reserves by halfway through the financial year.
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Acute activity sparks overspend forecast at Bath and NE Somerset
FINANCE: NHS Bath and North East Somerset is heading for an overspend of £5.2m on its commissioned services at year end - due mainly to more activity in the acute sector.
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Endoscopy waits under scrutiny at Gloucestershire acute trust
PERFORMANCE: Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust had 96 people waiting more than six weeks for endoscopy at the end of September.
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Two soft tissue sarcoma surgery sites for Cornwall
STRUCTURE: Services for adult patients with soft tissue sarcomas are to be provided at two centres in the South West Peninsula - rather than being concentrated on just one site.
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Waiting times a concern in Norfolk
PERFORMANCE: Patients waiting a long time for treatments or diagnostic tests are a concern for NHS Norfolk and Waveney.
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C diff concerns for Norfolk
PERFORMANCE: Healthcare associated infections are causing concern across the NHS Norfolk and Waveney cluster, with some providers already approaching their full year targets for Clostridiun difficile.
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Wiltshire PCT downgrades surplus forecast
FINANCE: NHS Wiltshire is no longer able to make a £6.5m surplus by the end of the financial year and has reduced its forecast to £2m.
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Gloucestershire cluster sets out AQP choices
COMMERCIAL: The NHS in Swindon and Gloucestershire has identified three services to be opened up to any qualified provider - endoscopy, increased direct access to diagnostic scans and wheelchair services.
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Surplus forecast for Great Yarmouth despite pressures
FINANCE: Primary care trusts in Norfolk and Great Yarmouth and Waveney are forecasting a full year surplus of £2m, despite financial pressures in the acute sector and continuing care.
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NewsHospital infection control procedures criticised
Standard procedures to prevent the spread of infections were not implemented “consistently” in two-thirds of Scottish hospitals and NHS services inspected in the past year, a report shows today.
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Herts CCGs overspend affecting PCT
FINANCE: Clinical commissioning groups in Hertfordshire are spending far more planned - leaving the PCT as a whole overspent at the end of month six.
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Barts uses reserves to stay on track as accounts show £7.17m year-end deficit
FINANCE: The Barts and the London Trust said it had covered a £7.17m deficit that had opened up in the accounts with “management contingency and reserves”.
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NewsLeading integrated care provider requests financial help
One of the NHS’s leading integrated care providers has sought financial help from its strategic health authority cluster after reporting a “precarious” cashflow position.
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NewsPCTs to receive flat 2.8pc increase next year
Primary care trusts will receive the same allocation in 2012-13 as this year, plus an across the board 2.8 per cent increase, the Department of Health has announced.
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NewsNHS whistleblowers threaten legal challenge
Solicitors for new campaign group Patients First have threatened two London trusts with legal action claiming they may have acted unlawfully in discharging their duties towards whistleblowers.