News – Page 1347
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Pathfinder complains over London's use of McKinsey
COMMERCIAL: London’s strategic health authority has received a complaint from a GP commissioning group about the use of consultancy firm McKinsey.
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NewsMonitor could suspend competition to encourage integration models
Monitor’s chief executive has set out a range of measures the future regulator will consider as it works to reconcile competition and service integration.
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News'Accelerated' demise of IT scheme needs clarity for involved businesses
IT professionals have called for clarity after the government announced an “acceleration” in the dismantling of the national IT scheme.
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Charities pledge £1m to Southport cancer centre
FINANCE: Two charities have pledged £1m towards refurbishing and extending a cancer treatment centre for patients in north Sefton and West Lancashire.
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Whittington revises down CIP target by nearly a third
FINANCE: The north London integrated care organisation has reduced its CIP target from £6.9m to £4.7m, its finance director reported to the board.
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SHA calls ‘risk summit’ over Morecambe Bay maternity services
PERFORMANCE: NHS North West has called a “risk summit” with University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust, regulators and local commissioners to ensure the safety of its maternity services, the strategic health authority’s chief executive has reported.
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Imperial 'optimistic' in aiming for £40.3m deficit
FINANCE: The west London hospital trust submitted a plan predicting a £40.3m deficit at the end of the year, a board report confirmed.
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'Deficient' practice slipped 'beneath the managerial radar'
PERFORMANCE: A Norfolk nurse-led health centre where there was a “serious deficiency” in safe care suffered a “complete breakdown” in monitoring and accountability arrangements, an independent review has found.
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Council set to approve Northumbria hospital plans
STRUCTURE: Northumberland County Council is due to approve planning permission for a new emergency care hospital, proposed by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, according to a report.
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Surrey and Sussex Healthcare not ‘challenged’ despite heading for deficit
FINANCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare remains on course for a year-end deficit of £6m but has escaped being categorised as a “challenged” trust.
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NewsFarrar and GP commissioners criticise competition diktat
Plans to introduce “any qualified provider” competition for at least three services from next year will stifle local decision making, according to GP commissioners and NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar.
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South Tyne abortion clinic closing temporarily
STRUCTURE: An abortion clinic at South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust is set to close, it has been reported.
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Nicholson says only 'small number' of PFI hospitals need extra funds
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson appeared to contradict Andrew Lansley today when he told the Mid Staffs inquiry most PFI hospitals were “not in financial difficulty”.
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Central Lancashire CCGs ask to work as separate committees
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust’s board will be asked to break up the joint committee it agreed to establish for clinical commissioning groups, board papers for its meeting this week show.
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New GP practice in Calderdale
STRUCTURE: A new branch practice, provided by Assura Leeds, will open in Calderdale in November.
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Leeds walk-in centre to close, and another to cut hours
FINANCE: A Leeds walk-in centre is due to close, and another to reduce its opening hours, in cost cutting moves, according to a report.
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NewsCQC's annual report overstated inspection figures
The Care Quality Commission’s annual report claimed the regulator had carried out more than twice as many inspections as had actually taken place, the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry has heard.
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Commissioning support costs for CCGs emerging with variations
Indications have emerged of planned expenditure on commissioning support. London primary care trusts are predicting costs of £16 per head of population – £5 more than their counterparts in Coventry and Warwickshire, HSJ has learned.
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£700m estates contract links primary and secondary care
FINANCE: A contract worth up to £700m is up for grabs in what is thought to be the first tender to provide estate and facilities management across primary and secondary care.
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NewsCQC sets out tougher inspections approach
The Care Quality Commission has set out in full its plans to carry out far more rigorous hospital inspections.