Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust – Page 22
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£5.4m bailout for Trafford dependant on ‘accountability agreement’
FINANCE: Trafford Healthcare Trust would need to conclude an “accountability agreement” with its commissioners to secure a further £5.4m tranche of “transitional” funding, its last board meeting was told.
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Nicholson predicts between 14 and 18 academic health science networks
Academic health science networks could be set up in between 14 to 18 health economies in England, the NHS chief executive has said.
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Manchester acute trusts fall behind on performance
PERFORMANCE: Acute trusts across Greater Manchester are failing on performance targets and in some areas things have got worse recently, the PCT cluster board heard.
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News'Top leaders' to help trusts get through FT pipeline
The NHS Top Leaders programme has launched a drive to send senior managers into NHS trusts needing help with savings plans or getting through the foundation trust pipeline.
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NewsIntegrated care plans 'will not save money for three years'
Integrated care systems are unlikely to demonstrate financial savings for at least three years, a Nuffield Trust study into Trafford’s pioneering work in the field has said.
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Former council chief exec appointed to major review of Trafford acute services
STRUCTURE: A former chief executive of Stockport Council has been appointed chairman of a major review of hospital services in Trafford.
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Over 20 mixed sex breaches in September for UHSM
PERFORMANCE: University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust recorded 22 breaches of the Department of Health’s guidelines on mixed sex accommodation last month.
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Central Manchester FT records five mixed sex breaches
PERFORMANCE: Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust recorded five breaches of the Department of Health’s guidelines on mixed sex accommodation last month.
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Takeover plans may have led to £1m emergency admissions shortfall at Trafford Healthcare
FINANCE: News of the trust’s need to be taken over by a larger foundation may have driven a £1m shortfall in its emergency admissions income in the first four months of 2011-12, its latest board papers suggest.
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UH South Manchester surplus and savings behind plan
FINANCE: The foundation reported a year-to-date surplus of £335,000 at the end of August, against a planned surplus of £759,000 to that point in the financial year.
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Potential industrial action at two North West path labs, Unite warns
WORKFORCE: Two acute trusts in the North West could face industrial action in their pathology labs.
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NewsLansley identifies 20 'unsustainable' trusts
The government has identified 20 trusts whose “clinical and financial stability is at risk” because of “cash-flow shortages” and legacy debt.
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Lab scientists to vote on industrial action at Central Manchester FT
WORKFORCE: Biomedical scientists at Central Manchester University Hospitals are to be balloted for industrial action which their union warns could force the foundation trust to close at night.
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NewsMonitor threatens collective punishment for Greater Manchester over cancer
Monitor has threatened to downgrade the governance ratings of nine foundation trusts in Greater Manchester if waiting times at the Christie Foundation Trust do not improve in the next six months.
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HSJ LocalManchester fires starting gun on major reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: Primary care trusts across greater Manchester have agreed to pool resources worth tens of millions of pounds a year to fund a major reconfiguration of the city’s planned and emergency hospital services.
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NewsExclusive: top teaching hospitals under threat from tariff system
The payment by results tariff system could tip England’s elite teaching hospitals into deficit and damage the country’s medical research industry, their chief executives have warned.
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46 mixed sex accommodation breaches in three months at UHSM
PERFORMANCE: The foundation had 46 breaches of rules against mixed sex accommodation in the first three months of 2011-12, commissioners report.
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Waiting times at Central Manchester FT ‘more challenging’ than other trusts
PERFORMANCE: Efforts to improve waiting times in Greater Manchester are proving “more challenging” at the foundation than at the city’s other underperforming providers, commissioners have reported.
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NewsFoundation trusts consider moving away from national pay deal
Foundation trusts are showing an unprecedented willingness to publicly consider moving away from nationally negotiated staff terms and conditions.