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Three trauma units proposed for Medway
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust has published an outline business case to support the development of major trauma services across the Kent and Medway area.
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Delayed payments bolster Berks FT cash position
FINANCE: The February cash position of Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was more than £1.6m better than planned, due to planned overpayments to neighbouring trusts.
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GWAS makes 'excuses' for poor performance
PERFORMANCE: Great Western Ambulance Service has submitted an excusing notice blaming industrial action and bad weather for their failure to achieve targets.
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Chair of non-FT announces departure one week after chief exec
WORKFORCE: The chair of St George’s Healthcare Trust, Naaz Coker, is to step down in October, shortly after chief executive David Astley announced he was leaving.
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CCP investigate Basingstoke and Winchester merger
STRUCTURE: The proposed merger of Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust and neighbouring Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust is to be considered by the Competition and Co-operation Panel.
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News'Listening exercise' delays DH business plan
Fresh uncertainty surrounds the coalition’s NHS reforms after the Department of Health’s business plan was delayed.
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Maternity services review at East Sussex Healthcare
PERFORMANCE: East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has announced the start of an externally led review to ensure the sustainability of its maternity services.
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Shadow social enterprise now operating in east Surrey
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust said a social enterprise was now running part of its community services, under the transforming community services programme.
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GP consortium votes to end choose and book LES
STRUCTURE: An emerging GP consortia has voted to discontinue a local enhanced service agreement for choose and book .
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Berkshire mental health services slipped on targets last year
PERFORMANCE: Mental health services in Berkshire fell behind target on a range of indicators in 2010-11.
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Care eclipsed by 'management goals' at Suffolk mental health trust
PERFORMANCE: A Suffolk mental health trust’s governance and leadership was criticised in an independent review commissioned after the suicide of an inpatient and following nine homicides caused by service users and former service users over two years.
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Berkshire TCS transfer held up by Monitor process
STRUCTURE: The transfer of Berkshire East and Berkshire West community services to Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was delayed until after the 1 April deadline because Monitor was not able to approve the trust’s risk ratings in time.
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NewsMORI poll shows confidence in NHS 'eroded'
Public confidence in the NHS has shown “signs of erosion” since the government’s reforms were proposed, according to a poll for the Department of Health.
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Portsmouth takes hard line on long term sickness
WORKFORCE: Portsmouth Hospitals Trust has dismissed 75 individuals for sickness absence or performance issues as part of a workforce efficiency drive which knocked £9m off the pay bill.
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Review into Berkshire FT suicides
PERFORMANCE: An independent review into suicides in Berkshire has been launched after an internal investigation found a higher proportion of suicides in the Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead area than in other parts of the county.
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Lincolnshire PCT 'pauses' its board
STRUCTURE: NHS Lincolnshire has cancelled its May board meeting because of the “pause” taken by the government in the introduction of the Health Bill.
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Northamptonshire PCT underspends by £10.5m
FINANCE: NHS Northamptonshire finished the financial year with an underspend of more than £10.5m, according to the primary care trust’s board papers.
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NHS Bristol given all clear over histopatholgy row
PERFORMANCE: A review of NHS Bristol’s role in the city’s histopathology crisis has found the primary care trust acted appropriately.
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NewsTrust in management 'at record low'
Employee confidence and trust in management has fallen to record lows, a survey has suggested.
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Gloucestershire Hospitals FT suffers extended norovirus outbreak
PERFORMANCE: Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust was still struggling with norovirus four months after a winter outbreak of the vomiting bug, board papers show.