Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust – Page 25
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Trafford PCT seeks short-term caretaker for its provider arm
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust has asked a newly-formed community services trust to take over its provider arm on a short-term contract, while it continues work on its plans for an integrated care organisation (ICO).
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News'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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NewsShake-up opposed by Lansley gets green light
A controversial reconfiguration criticised by Andrew Lansley before he became health secretary has finally been given the go ahead.
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Central Manchester FT falls behind on surplus plan
FINANCE: Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust is forecasting a surplus this financial year but is significantly behind its financial plan.
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Central Manchester University FT one of eight chosen maternity and children's acute in region
Structure: Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust runs one of just eight sites in the greater Manchester region selected to provide overnight maternity and children’s services in the future.
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Three serious untoward incidents at UH South Manchester in November
PERFORMANCE: Three serious untoward incidents were declared at the foundation trust in November, newly published board papers show.
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Trafford scrambles for extra savings to avert deficit
FINANCE: The primary care trust was forced to find an additional £6m of savings halfway through the financial year, after realising its “most likely” financial result for 2010/11 was a £2.25m deficit.
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Trafford Healthcare cuts forecast surplus by £400,000
FINANCE: The trust has cut its forecast surplus for the year from £1.2m to £800,000.
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NewsTrusts 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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NewsTrust 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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NewsMonitor issues list of lessons to be learnt from failed FT bids as list of planned mergers grows
Monitor has published a list of lessons to be learnt from recent failed foundation trust applications.
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NewsMerger plans announced as FT deadline looms
A rush of acute hospital mergers have been announced in the wake of the Department of Health deadline for submitting plans to become a foundation trust.
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NewsHospital trust announces merger proposals
A second non-foundation trust has this morning announced plans to merge with a foundation trust.
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NewsTrafford forced to drop integration plans in favour of merger with FT
A Manchester hospital trust has had to abandon its plans to become an integrated care trust in order to attain foundation status.
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News1,400 NHS posts face axe
As many as 1,400 posts at Manchester's biggest hospital trust could be lost over the next four years because of government cuts.
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NewsNicholson outlines further transition details
GPs must not be “dragooned” into forming particular consortia, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has told chiefs in a letter outlining the next stage of the transition.
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CommentMedia Watch: Ban on cheap alcohol
Public health doctors have raised at least one cheer for the new government’s plans to ban supermarkets from selling cheap alcohol as a loss leader.
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NewsNHS Manchester tables complex community restructuring plan
Community services in Manchester look set to be split up and integrated among a wide range of providers under a complex set of proposals.
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NewsGas explosion at Manchester hospital
Two gas explosions have ripped through the site of the former Withington Hospital in Greater Manchester.
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NewsBarts and the London appoints chief executive
Peter Morris has been appointed chief executive of Barts and the London Trust. Mr Morris, who replaced Julian Nettel as interim chief executive of the trust in March, took up the position permanently last week.