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Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust predicting £6m deficit for 2013-14

2011-02-08T18:36:00Z

FINANCE; A specialist eye hospital is predicting a significant deficit within two years because of increased cost pressures

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Kingston Hospital c-section rate above 27 per cent

2011-02-08T18:35:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The trust’s rate was above its own target but it said its multiple pregenancy rate, often a causal factor, was double the national average and outside its control.

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Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust manages to get staff-turnover below national average

2011-02-08T18:32:00Z

WORKFORCE: The troubled trust, which spent £4.1m on bank and agency staff, in August reached a turnover of 11.3 per cent in December.

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Ealing Hospital Trust considering merger with North West London Hospitals Trust

2011-02-08T18:31:00Z

STRUCTURE: The district general hospital is considering a merger with its much larger neighbour.

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Royal Marsden challenged over billing for patient 'who wasn't there'

2011-02-08T18:27:00Z

FINANCE: NHS Croydon are challenging the specialist cancer trust saying they were billed until the end of September for a patient who was discharged in May.

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West Middlesex University Hospital Trust performing ahead of target for referral to treatment times

2011-02-08T18:26:00Z

PERFROMANCE: The west London hospital achieved the 18-week standard for admitted and non-admitted cases in November.

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NHS Croydon to challenge local acute over "reclassifying activity" to avoid lower tariff

2011-02-08T18:23:00Z

FINANCE: NHS Croydon is challenging St George’s Healthcare Trust after claiming it re-classified activity to avoid only being paid at a marginal rate.

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NHS Newham squeezes extra £1.4m out of acute provider

2011-02-08T18:23:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust is reporting an increased surplus after its PCT sector negotiated extra payment from Barts and the London Trust.

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Ambulances lose 231 hours of emergency response resource through slow turnaround at Aintree

2011-02-08T17:44:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Ambulance turnaround times at the hospital over Christmas and New Year were among the worst in the North West, the ambulance service reported.

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Burton Hospitals staff vote on bank holiday

2011-02-08T17:40:00Z

WORKFORCE: Burton Hospitals Foundation Trust is asking employees to vote on whether the royal wedding should be treated as a bank holiday.

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Southampton plan to delegate urgent care to city-wide consortium

2011-02-08T17:34:00Z

STRUCTURE: Southampton City PCT has plans to delegate £80m in urgent care commissioning to a single commissioning consortium covering the patch.

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Berkshire mental health FT in surplus

2011-02-08T16:47:00Z

FINANCE: Berkshire Healthcare FT expects to finish the year with a surplus of £663,000, just below its plan for the year.

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NHS Ealing cancels board meeting and can't say when it will next meet

2011-02-08T16:37:00Z

STRUCTURE: A primary care trust cancelled its January board meeting and couldn’t say when it would next meet.

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Ambulance turnaround times rise to nearly two hours at Tameside Hospital FT over Christmas

2011-02-08T16:36:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Ambulance turnaround times at the Tameside General Hospital over Christmas and New Year were among the worst in the North West, the ambulance service reported.

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Salisbury FT offers services for new trauma centre

2011-02-08T16:24:00Z

STRUCTURE: Salisbury Foundation Trust could provide plastic surgery for a new major trauma centre at Southampton University Hospitals Trust.

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South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust claims SHA is pleased with its progress towards FT status

2011-02-08T16:23:00Z

STRUCTURE: A mental health trust is confident it can attain foundation trust status after being told by the strategic health authority is was not an “at risk” trust

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Salisbury FT in overperformance dispute with PCTs

2011-02-08T16:10:00Z

FINANCE: Salisbury FT has been issued with performance notices, warning notices and and exception report by NHS Wiltshire.

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Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust predicting surplus

2011-02-08T16:08:00Z

FINANCE: A trust is predicting it will meet its planned surplus of £3.3m at year end, but needs to find an extra £700,000 in savings.

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NHS North Lincolnshire missing target for number of staff who have changed post

2011-02-08T16:08:00Z

WORKFORCE: The trust’ set itself a target of having only one per cent of staff changing position, but recorded a figure of three per cent, according to its latest board papers.

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Leicestershire Partnership Trust postpones FT bid

2011-02-08T16:06:00Z

STRUCTURE: Leicestershire Partnership Trust has decided to postpone its foundation trust application following a meeting with Monitor.