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PCT delivers just 1 per cent of screening results on time
PERFORMANCE: Only 1 per cent of cervical screening results were delivered within the two week target at NHS Shropshire County during the first half of 2010-11.
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NewsCouncil planning change could slash hospital site value
A hospital trust is facing a potential £8m shortfall in funding because of changes in local planning policies and land values.
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NewsStaff reports on Mid Staffs 'disappeared'
More than 500 staff reports about poor care at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have disappeared into a “black hole”.
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NewsHealthcare assistants to ease budget pressures
Providers will need to see a big growth in the number of healthcare assistants over the next decade, the health skills advisory body has said.
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Sunderland sees three consortia emerging
STRUCTURE: Sunderland Teaching PCT has identified three emerging commissioning consortia.
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Two consortia emerging in South Tyneside
STRUCTURE: There are two emerging commissioning consortia in the South Tyneside PCT area.
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Gateshead pathfinder to take on urgent care and prescribing
STRUCTURE: The pathfinder consortium covering all Gateshead practices is likely to be delegated urgent care and prescribing budgets from April.
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NHS North Yorkshire and York mental health services to go to local FTs
COMMERCIAL: The board of NHS North Yorkshire and York has been recommended to award contracts for its mental health services to a mental health trust and an acute trust.
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Basingstoke and North Hampshire makes the case for integration
STRUCTURE: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospitals FT is drawing up a business case for its integration with Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare Trust.
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NHS South Birmingham warns of £9.5m Continuing Healthcare overspend across city
FINANCE: Birmingham’s three PCTs are predicting a worse case scenario of overspending on Continuing Healthcare by £9.5m.
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Royal Berkshire FT to pay nearly £8m in compensation
FINANCE: The Royal Berkshire FT will pay nearly £8m in compensation to a ten-year-old with cerebral palsy after mistakes during his birth.
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Birmingham hospitals issue joint pathology tender
COMMERCIAL: Birmingham Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust has opened a tender on a range of pathology services with Birmingham Women’s Foundation Trust.
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Birmingham trusts launch joint pathology tender
COMMERCIAL: Birmingham Women’s Foundation Trust has opened a tender on a range of pathology services with Birmingham Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust.
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NHS East Lancs sets £83m five-year savings target
FINANCE: NHS East Lancashire predicts it will have to save nearly £83m over the next five years to meet the government targets set in the operating framework.
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NHS Manchester tells OOH provider to review its Christmas performance
PERFORMANCE: The primary care trust said its out of hours service came under significant pressure during the festive period, resulting in waits of up to six hours for a GP visit.
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NHS Haringey heading for £17m acute overspend
FINANCE: A primary care trust is looking at a year-end overspend of £17m with its local and out-of-sector acute providers.
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Last patient leaves Lincolnshire Partnership FT inpatient unit
STRUCTURE: The last patient has left one of the Lincolnshire mental health FT’s inpatient units, paving the way for its planned closure.
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Sick leave numbers hit 12-month peak at Alder Hey
WORKFORCE: Alder Hey lost 5,496 work days in November due to staff illness, the highest monthly rate of sickness abscence for the foundation in 12 months.
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University Hospitals Bristol FT presses ahead with partnership plans
STRUCTURE: University Hospitals Bristol and North Bristol Trust have set up a partnership board to take forward plans to work more closely together.
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Manchester Health and Social Care raises red flag over savings target
FINANCE: The care trust still had £1.2m of costs to cut out of its budget in 2010/11 at the end of December, a position it described as a “significant risk”.