London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust – Page 15
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PCT to fine acutes for failing to provide named consultant teams
FINANCE: NHS Brent and neighbour Harrow propose to charge their providers £20,000 for each month they fail to offer the choice of a named consultant led team, which was due to be introduced at the start of the month.
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Reconfiguration threatening to derail London service level agreements
No sooner were service level agreements more or less signed off by London acutes and commissioners, than reconfiguration issues reared their head.
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Manager who pumped NHS funds into stud farm told to pay cash back
A former senior NHS manager who channelled £200,000 of hospital funds into her stud farm business has been ordered to pay the money back.
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NHS Hillingdon to miss surplus target
FINANCE: NHS Hillingdon is £4.9m behind its financial plan for 2010-11, reporting a deficit of £1.2m in February.
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McKinsey appointed to work on Ealing and North West London merger
STRUCTURE: The west London acute trust has approved a plan to work on a strategic outline case to look at a merger with North West London Hospitals Trust and the consultancy McKinsey is due to present it to the April board.
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New finance director at Doncaster and Bassetlaw
WORKFORCE: David Pratt has been appointed director of finance, information and procurement at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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Challenged hospitals funds used to bail out PCTs
Nearly 40 per cent of a £392m fund set up to pay off the historic debts of London’s financially challenged organisations has been used to bail out commissioners.
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NHS Ealing working towards year-end breakeven after agreeing cap with acute
FINANCE: The west London primary care trust agreed to cap any overspend on their contract with Ealing Hospital Trust to £3.5m.
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NW London Hospitals Trust behind target on major schemes savings plan
FINANCE: A report to the board said the acute trust had achieved less than half of the major savings schemes it had planned.
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'Challenged' acute trusts abandon independent FT status plans
More than half of the Department of Health’s seven financially “challenged” trusts appear to have abandoned plans to become foundation trusts.
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HSJ Local
North West London Hospitals Trust struggles on emergency four-hour target
PERFORMANCE: An acute trust is under pressure to meet the four-hour A&E target after a six per cent rise in attendances
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Ealing Hospital Trust considering merger with North West London Hospitals Trust
STRUCTURE: The district general hospital is considering a merger with its much larger neighbour.
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Flory tells PCTs to give providers leeway over winter pressures
Commissioners have been urged to adjust their payments to hospital trusts struggling to deal with winter pressures on emergency care.
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Trusts battle for right to absorb smaller non-FTs
Two London hospital trusts, one of which is struggling with a large private finance initiative, are competing to swallow up two smaller trusts.
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Trust in breach of six CQC standards
One of the Department of Health’s seven “financially challenged” trusts has been found in breach of standards in six separate areas by the Care Quality Commission.
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CCP to investigate PCTs 'restricting choice and competition'
The Co-operation and Competition Panel is to investigate complaints that primary care trusts are restricting choice and competition, and setting discriminatory contracts.
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Trust plans closure of seven wards
A hospital trust plans to close the equivalent of seven wards to get back into financial balance.
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Transforming Community Services: PCTs step closer to deciding fate of provider arms
Primary care trusts are edging closer to determining the future of their provider arms.
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Trusts putting patients' lives at risk, claims AvMA
NHS hospitals are putting lives at risk by failing to comply with key alerts on patient safety, a report has said.
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Former manager jailed for funding private stud farm with NHS money
A former NHS manager who bought horse semen, thoroughbred horses and numerous other goods and services for her private stud business with NHS funds has been jailed for two years and nine months.