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Southern Health slips on CIP
FINANCE: Southern Health, the community and mental health services provider for Hampshire, has had to release reserves to plug a £1.3m hole in its cost improvement plan.
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BNSSG cluster QIPP plan underperforming
FINANCE: The cluster has launched a review of all quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) schemes after identifying “significant” challenges to its ability to meet its financial duties during 2011-12.
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NewsWide variety in UK organ donation rates
The number of organs donated for transplant across the UK varies markedly, new research has suggested.
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Mid Yorkshire Hospitals 'underperforming' says DH
PERFORMANCE: Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been listed as “underperforming” by the Department of Health for “overall quality of services” in the first quarter 2011-12.
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Interim medical director at Taunton and Somerset
WORKFORCE: An interim medical director has been appointed at Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust.
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Southern Health over target despite admissions cut
PERFORMANCE: Emergency admissions from Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust have fallen in 2011-12 compared with last year, but remain above target.
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Savings shortfall leaves Southport and Ormskirk surplus 96 per cent behind plan
FINANCE: Failure to meet cost improvement programme savings targets has left the trust with a surplus of just £59,000 for the first five months of 2011-12, against a planned surplus of £728,000.
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NewsCQC Mid Staffs evidence 'wishful thinking'
Evidence given to the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry by Care Quality Commission board members was “aspirational” and did not reflect what was happening in practice, the inquiry has heard.
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York GPs tell patients they can pay for NHS-limited procedures
FINANCE: A GP surgery has written to patients who it believed wanted minor surgery which is no longer funded by its primary care trust, offering to carry out the procedures for a fee, it has emerged.
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NewsNHS managers to be balloted for industrial action, HSJ learns
Members of Managers in Partnership will be asked whether they want to join action being planned by unions including Unison, to which MiP is aligned, against changes to public sector pensions.
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East Cheshire Trust £4.1m behind on savings plans
FINANCE: At the end of August the trust was £4.1m behind on its £14.6m cost improvement programme savings plan for 2011-12, its latest finance report shows.
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NewsFormer Mid Staffs chief admits to considering suicide
The former chief executive of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has revealed he considered taking his own life in the wake of the fallout from the Healthcare Commission’s investigation into the trust.
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Yorkshire PCT has 'significant concerns' about GP minor surgery letter
FINANCE: NHS North Yorkshire and York has said it has “significant concerns” about a letter sent by a GP practice to patients it believed wanted minor surgery, in which the practice offered to carry out procedures it said were no longer funded by the primary care trust for a fee.
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NewsLansley: I have fought 'misinformation and misrepresentation' over reforms
The government has battled “misinterpretation, misinformation and misrepresentation” in its efforts to reform the NHS, health secretary Andrew Lansley told the Conservative party conference today.
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NewsCircle pulls out of bid to run hospital
Private healthcare firm Circle has pulled out of a bid to run a hospital in Surrey.
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NewsUnison 'will not campaign' against all reconfigurations
A senior Unison figure has revealed to HSJ that the union is prepared to accept some hospital reconfigurations.
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Thousands of records accidentally destroyed by Dartford and Gravesham
PERFORMANCE: Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust breached the Data Protection Act by accidentally destroying 10,000 archived records, the Information Commissioner’s Office has said.
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NewsGovernment to oppose Lords move for extra Health Bill scrutiny
The government will strongly resist calls for large parts of its Health Bill to be referred to a select committee in the Lords – a move which would further frustrate its progress through Parliament – HSJ understands.
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NewsPull bill now, public health doctors urge Lords
The government’s health reforms will do “irreparable harm” to the NHS, a group of public health doctors and specialists, including Sir Michael Marmot, have warned.
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NewsFarrar clashes with Lansley over 'over-managed' claim
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has been forced to defend himself against charges that patients will suffer due as a result of management cuts.