News – Page 1333
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64 patients declined funding as NHS Buckinghamshire fails on 18 week target
PERFORMANCE: Dozens of Buckinghamshire patients have been declined funding after commissioners took action to improve performance against the 18 week referral to treatment standard.
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CCP examines York and Scarborough merger
COMMERCIAL: The Cooperation and Competition panel has announced an investigation of the proposed merger between Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare Trust and York Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust.
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Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
PERFORMANCE: Work is beginning on a new hospital in Sunderland.
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West Hampshire CCG becomes a pathfinder
STRUCTURE: The West Hampshire clinical commissioning group has been named as a pathfinder by the Department of Health.
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Suffolk addresses report concerns
PERFORMANCE: Suffolk Mental Health Partnership is addressing the concerns of a highly critical report published in May, the trust has claimed.
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NewsBristol trusts discuss £1bn merger
Two acute trusts in Bristol are in “ongoing discussions” about merging to create an organisation with a turnover close to £1bn.
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NewsStepping Hill poisoning cases hit seventeen
Seventeen patients at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport were affected by saline poisoning, police have revealed.
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NewsExclusive: DH publishes detailed plans for commissioning support
The Department of Health has identified four commissioning support functions which could be run most effectively at a national level.
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NewsAddiction help disadvantage for older people
GPs and other health professionals should undergo more training to help older people who are dependent on alcohol or drugs, experts have warned.
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Milton Keynes provider transfer delayed for financial reasons
STRUCTURE: A transfer of the whole of the PCT provider arm at NHS Milton Keynes was proposed to Milton Keynes Hospital Foundation Trust.
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North Staffs scrutinised on cancer screeening
PERFORMANCE: University Hospital of North Staffordshire Foundation Trust is being closely monitored on its performance related to the extension of bowel cancer screening to 70-75 year olds.
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SHA warns North Essex cluster over target failures
PERFORMANCE: NHS East of England has written to the chief of the North Essex primary care trust cluster after failures against performance targets.
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Continuing care spending a 'significant' problem in Stoke
FINANCE: NHS Stoke on Trent is seeing increasing spending in continuing care, primary care and high cost drugs budgets.
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NewsHospitals eye charges for disabled parking spaces
Campaigners have criticised plans to charge disabled people for parking at hospital appointments.
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NewsUCL Partners to become 'biggest AHSC in the world'
UCL Partners is expected to become the biggest academic health science centre in the world after welcoming another trust and a university to its partnership.
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New Somerset social enterprise sets 'marker in the sand'
STRUCTURE: A social enterprise has expressed a formal interest in taking on primary care trust estate despite Department of Health rules banning non NHS organisations from taking on NHS assets.
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Doncaster nurse prescribers slash alcohol addiction treatment times
PERFORMANCE: Nurses at a Yorkshire trust are pioneering a prescribing initiative for alcohol addiction patients that has helped slash treatment times.
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SHA identifies concerns over finance and performance in Oxfordshire and Bucks
PERFORMANCE: The Buckinghamshire health system has been given an amber “performance under review” rating by the South Central strategic health authority.
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Birth centre opens at Medway FT
STRUCTURE: Medway Foundation Trust’s new midwifery-led unit has begun receiving its first patients.
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Olympics concerns see NHS London approve Newham refurb
STRUCTURE: The full business case for a new urgent care centre and alterations to A&E at the east London acute was approved by NHS London, who said it would provide “critical Olympics resilience”.