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Sussex Partnership directors pledge to balance books
FINANCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust has pledged to safeguard frontline services and deliver a balanced budget for 2011-12, despite facing “challenging times”.
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Coventry beats year to date surplus target
FINANCE: Coventry primary care trust is reporting a revenue surplus of £3.5m for the first four months of 2011-12, £1.6m better than planned.
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NewsTrusts' cancer targets being missed - Monitor
Almost a quarter of foundation trusts are failing to hit cancer waiting targets while some are also breaching new rules on A&E, according to a new report.
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'Deficient' practice slipped 'beneath the managerial radar'
PERFORMANCE: A Norfolk nurse-led health centre where there was a “serious deficiency” in safe care suffered a “complete breakdown” in monitoring and accountability arrangements, an independent review has found.
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Nicholson says only 'small number' of PFI hospitals need extra funds
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson appeared to contradict Andrew Lansley today when he told the Mid Staffs inquiry most PFI hospitals were “not in financial difficulty”.
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£700m estates contract links primary and secondary care
FINANCE: A contract worth up to £700m is up for grabs in what is thought to be the first tender to provide estate and facilities management across primary and secondary care.
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Imperial 'optimistic' in aiming for £40.3m deficit
FINANCE: The west London hospital trust submitted a plan predicting a £40.3m deficit at the end of the year, a board report confirmed.
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NewsFarrar and GP commissioners criticise competition diktat
Plans to introduce “any qualified provider” competition for at least three services from next year will stifle local decision making, according to GP commissioners and NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar.
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NewsCQC's annual report overstated inspection figures
The Care Quality Commission’s annual report claimed the regulator had carried out more than twice as many inspections as had actually taken place, the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry has heard.
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Commissioning support costs for CCGs emerging with variations
Indications have emerged of planned expenditure on commissioning support. London primary care trusts are predicting costs of £16 per head of population – £5 more than their counterparts in Coventry and Warwickshire, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCQC sets out tougher inspections approach
The Care Quality Commission has set out in full its plans to carry out far more rigorous hospital inspections.
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SHA calls ‘risk summit’ over Morecambe Bay maternity services
PERFORMANCE: NHS North West has called a “risk summit” with University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust, regulators and local commissioners to ensure the safety of its maternity services, the strategic health authority’s chief executive has reported.
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NewsLow access to flagship mental health scheme revealed
Only 2 per cent of people with anxiety or depression are receiving psychological therapies, despite successive government pledges to improve access to treatments.
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NewsSouthern Cross homes transfer to take place this week
More than 250 care homes run by Southern Cross are to be transferred to new companies by this weekend as part of plans to shut down the sector’s biggest operator.
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Whittington revises down CIP target by nearly a third
FINANCE: The north London integrated care organisation has reduced its CIP target from £6.9m to £4.7m, its finance director reported to the board.
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Council set to approve Northumbria hospital plans
STRUCTURE: Northumberland County Council is due to approve planning permission for a new emergency care hospital, proposed by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, according to a report.
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Surrey and Sussex Healthcare not ‘challenged’ despite heading for deficit
FINANCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare remains on course for a year-end deficit of £6m but has escaped being categorised as a “challenged” trust.
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NewsAgency workers to get improved employment deal
New rights for temporary and short term contract staff are due to come into force this weekend, helping to stamp out some of the exploitation agency staff face at work, the TUC has said.
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South Tyne abortion clinic closing temporarily
STRUCTURE: An abortion clinic at South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust is set to close, it has been reported.
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Central Lancashire CCGs ask to work as separate committees
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust’s board will be asked to break up the joint committee it agreed to establish for clinical commissioning groups, board papers for its meeting this week show.