News – Page 1344
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Stroke care targets missed at Heatherwood FT
PERFORMANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park missed its target on stroke care for each of the first three months of 2011-12.
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Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals face large QIPP 'productivity gap'
FINANCE: Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust faces a larger than average challenge in providing care with fewer staff between now and 2015.
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Heatherwood FT worst in South Central on VTE
PERFORMANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Foundation Trust is the worst performer in the South Central region for venous thromboembolism, with performance declining in the first quarter of 2011-12.
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Heatherwood FT warned over C-section rate
PERFORMANCE: Commissioners have told Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Foundation Trust to reduce its rate of babies born by Caesarean section.
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Yorkshire Ambulance to submit for FT status in June
STRUCTURE: Yorkshire Ambulance Service Trust is due to submit its foundation trust application in June 2012.
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Legionella 'issues' at Basildon and Thurrock
PERFORMANCE: There are “ongoing issues” with legionella at Basildon and Thurrock UHFT, according to a document from the local strategic health authority.
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SHA slams Peterborough PCT over 'inaccurate' TCS assurance
STRUCTURE: NHS Peterborough have been criticised for providing “consistently inaccurate assurance” to the strategic health authority during the process to divest its community services.
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South West gets 'special consideration' for surgery site
COMMERCIAL: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust and Plymouth Hospitals Trust are both to continue providing gynaecological cancer surgery on site after agreeing to create one multi-disciplinary team spanning the two trusts.
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Exclusive: cluster-sized commissioning group being considered
STRUCTURE: GPs in Cambridgeshire could form a single clinical commissioning group for the entire county, covering two primary care trust areas.
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NewsCigarette vending machines ban to improve health in children
A ban on vending machines selling tobacco that comes into force in England today will reduce the access children have to cigarettes and cut down the number of young smokers, it is hoped.
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NewsNHS 111 to go nationwide
The non-emergency telephone number aiming to provide around-the-clock access to NHS services is to get a national roll out.
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Heatherwood FT closes birthing centre
STRUCTURE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Foundation Trust has closed its Ascot Birth Centre due to “unprecedented” staff sickness and maternity leave rates.
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NewsAmbulance services strive to avoid A&E
Two of England’s ambulance services have reduced the proportion of patients they convey to accident and emergency departments by more than 7 per cent since April, new figures from the Department of Health show.
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Social enterprise takes over community services in Great Yarmouth
STRUCTURE: Great Yarmouth and Waveney primary care trust is to hand over the provision of community services in the area to a newly formed social enterprise.
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NHS Cumbria asks for recovery plan to avert £4m acute care overspend
FINANCE: The primary care trust recorded a surplus of £145,000 for the first five months of 2011-12, against a plan to have under spent by £1.7m by that point in the financial year.
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Two social enterprises for Surrey
STRUCTURE: Central Surrey Health has welcomed the launch of a second healthcare social enterprise in Surrey, called First Community Health and Care.
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'Complexities' hold up Warwickshire QIPP plan
FINANCE: Warwickshire PCT is lowering expectations around its efficiency saving programme, following delays in agreeing savings with providers.
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Medway and Dartford push for merger
STRUCTURE: The boards of Medway Foundation Trust and Dartford and Gravesham Trust have decided to “proceed to the next stage” of planning to merge their organisations.
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Warwickshire PCT overspends on acute contracts
FINANCE: Warwickshire primary care trust is over-spending on its acute contracts amid “exceptionally high” emergency activity.
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Taunton and Somerset medical director steps down
WORKFORCE: Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust’s medical director has stepped down but will continue to work as a consultant anaesthetist.