News – Page 1406
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Southern Health holds vacancies ahead of service redesign
WORKFORCE: Southern Health, the community and mental health services provider for Hampshire, is reporting a higher than planned vacancy rate ahead of a planned service redesign.
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Southern Health misses performance targets and reports overspend
PERFORMANCE: Southern Health’s adult mental health and learning disability directorate is falling behind on a number of compliance targets, and is reporting an overspend for the first month of 2011-12.
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Poor choose and book uptake in Bedfordshire
PERFORMANCE: The clinical executive committee of NHS Bedfordshire has reported that uptake of the “choose and book” system in the county is “poor”.
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Barts improves agency spend
WORKFORCE: The east London hospital has seen a falling off of the amount it spends on agency and bank nursing staff.
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Leeds Hospitals start year ahead of plan on finance
FINANCE: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust finished the first month of the financial year £1.4m ahead of plan, but has identified risks later in the year.
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Birmingham's PCTs face £44m financial shortfall
FINANCE: Birmingham’s PCTs face a £44m shortfall in their QIPP plans in 2011-12 and an underlying recurrent deficit of at least £53m in 2012-13.
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Bury LINk website to allow patients to give anonymous reviews of NHS services
PERFORMANCE: Bury’s local involvement network is to launch an un-moderated website to allow patients to anonymously rate their experiences of health and social care providers.
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Heart of Birmingham submits £2.4m of capital plans
FINANCE: NHS Heart of Birmingham has submitted capital plans totalling £2.4m for approval to NHS West Midlands.
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Poole and Royal Bournemouth press ahead with joint working
STRUCTURE: The chairs of Poole Hospital Foundation Trust and the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals Foundation Trust have signed a joint statement of intent, setting out details of how they will work more closely together.
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Suffolk Mental Health Trust 'does not have' merger reports
STRUCTURE: Suffolk Mental Health Partnership Trust has said it is not in possession of independent reports into its planned merger with Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health FT.
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Monitor downgrades Somerset Partnership on governance
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has downgraded Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust’s governance risk rating from amber-green to amber red.
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Monitor downgrades Royal Devon
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has downgraded the Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust’s governance risk rating for quarter four.
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Qualified view of 'financial resilience' for Mid Yorks hospitals
FINANCE: Auditors have issued a qualified opinion on the financial resilience of Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
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NewsDH commits funds to support health and wellbeing board development
The government announced today it was committing £985,000 to support the development of health and wellbeing boards.
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Mid Yorks trust 'alerted to inaccurate finance assumption'
FINANCE: Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust end of year statement of internal control reveals it “was alerted to inaccurate financial assumptions” in November last year, and is planning to save £60m in the next two years.
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Taunton and Somerset FT downgraded due to C diff failure
PERFORMANCE: Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust has been downgraded by Monitor after breaching the Clostridium difficile target for the third consecutive quarter.
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CQC launch investigation into troubled east London trust
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has launched a “full investigation” of the acute trust focussing on emergency care, elective care and maternity.
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NewsTreasury review of NHS charities sparks 'nationalisation' fear
Treasury plans to place charitable assets worth £500m on the public balance sheet for the first time will have the effect of “nationalising” NHS charities, critics of the move have warned.
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NewsLansley meeting Future Forum to discuss its future
Members of the NHS Future Forum - set up to review the government’s controversial reform plans - are to meet to discuss whether and how the group should continue.
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NewsEnd-of-life funding change would be 'fairer' on patients
Changing the way end-of-life care is funded across the country would save millions of pounds and help focus on individual patient needs, according to a government-ordered review.