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Guy's and St Thomas' expecting to exceed activity plans by £5.8m
FINANCE: The south London foundation trust’s finance report said the £987m-turnover organisation’s predicted over-performance had grown by £900,000 since the previous month.
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Kingston says most year-plus elective waits have already been treated
PERFORMANCE: The south west London hospital trust recorded the worst elective admission rates for people waiting more than a year in June.
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SHA highlights 'never events' at West Herts Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: West Hertfordshire Hospitals has admitted it has had seven “never events” since October 2010, after concerns were raised by its strategic health authority.
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NewsMid Staffs to close 165 beds on road to recovery
Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust is to close nearly 40 per cent of its beds as part of a recovery plan designed to tackle its growing deficit.
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NewsOverseas doctors face English tests before starting work
Foreign doctors will be made to take language tests before starting work in the NHS, under new rules being introduced in the wake of a number of scandals involving overseas medical professionals.
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Poole FT patient records stolen from nurse’s car
PERFORMANCE: Poole foundation trust has been rapped by the Information Commissioner’s Office after patient records were stolen from the car of one of its nurses.
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Royal Devon and Exeter gets backing for £19m research centre
COMMERCIAL: Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust has been granted planning permission for a £19m research centre.
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Southern Health doubts value of joint procurement scheme
FINANCE: Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust have opted not to join a joint procurement programme involving most other trusts in the South Central region.
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Croydon Health Services planning work around discharge delays
PERFORMANCE: The outer London integrated care organisation is planning a “significant piece of business process reengineering” to reduce delays in getting medication for patients to take home.
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Whittington pressure ulcers rates down
PERFORMANCE: The incidence of the most serious pressure ulcers has fallen at the north London integrated care organisation.
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NewsGovernment sets out limits of Health Bill compromise
The government is prepared to compromise over how the Health Bill sets out the health secretary’s duties to ensure the NHS provides services, HSJ has been told.
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North Cumbria finances remain ‘very fragile’ with £7m shortfall in savings plan
FINANCE: After the first five months of 2011-12 the trust had achieved cost improvement programme savings of just £3m, against a target of £15.2m for the year.
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Legionella 'issues' at Basildon and Thurrock
PERFORMANCE: There are “ongoing issues” with legionella at Basildon and Thurrock UHFT, according to a document from the local strategic health authority.
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SHA slams Peterborough PCT over 'inaccurate' TCS assurance
STRUCTURE: NHS Peterborough have been criticised for providing “consistently inaccurate assurance” to the strategic health authority during the process to divest its community services.
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Sheffield workforce plans 'clearly not yet aligned' to activity
WORKFORCE: The workforce plans of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust and Sheffield Children’s Foundation Trust “clearly are not yet aligned to commissioners’ intentions”, according to the NHS Yorkshire and the Humber Integrated Plan 2011-15.
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South West gets 'special consideration' for surgery site
COMMERCIAL: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust and Plymouth Hospitals Trust are both to continue providing gynaecological cancer surgery on site after agreeing to create one multi-disciplinary team spanning the two trusts.
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NewsNHS 111 to go nationwide
The non-emergency telephone number aiming to provide around-the-clock access to NHS services is to get a national roll out.
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Doubt over Mid Yorks Hospitals FT readiness
STRUCTURE: “System recovery plans are being developed” to address Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust’s finance problems, to try to prepare it for foundation status, according to the NHS Yorkshire and the Humber integrated plan 2011-2015, published last week.
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Heatherwood FT warned over C-section rate
PERFORMANCE: Commissioners have told Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Foundation Trust to reduce its rate of babies born by Caesarean section.
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Yorkshire Ambulance to submit for FT status in June
STRUCTURE: Yorkshire Ambulance Service Trust is due to submit its foundation trust application in June 2012.