News – Page 1412
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SHA directors lined up for key roles at troubled trust
FINANCE: Senior strategic health authority figures are to take up key posts at one of England’s most financially-troubled trusts.
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London’s cost improvement programmes flatlined in last two months of 2010-11
FINANCE: St George’s Healthcare Trust ended the last financial year £5.4m behind plan because of failed savings plans and challenges from commissioners.
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Newham University Hospital finished 2010-11 in deficit
FINANCE: The east London hospital trust was one of two in the capital to finish the last financial year with an unplanned deficit.
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SHA investigates PCT leavers who may have rejoined NHS
WORKFORCE: NHS London is preparing a report on staff who left the PCT with a redundancy payment then rejoined the NHS
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NewsHealth Bill: rules unclear on open board meetings
It is unclear how far government Health Bill changes will go in forcing foundation trusts and clinical commissioning groups to hold public board meetings.
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NewsHealth Bill: changes risk ‘paper duties’ and central pressure
Changes to the health bill risk propagating procedural requirements and increasing pressure on the health secretary to intervene, a lawyer has warned.
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Warwickshire PCT agrees discharge measures with George Eliot
PERFORMANCE: Commissioners have agreed “hand holding” measures with George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust after figures showed it had the worst delayed discharge rate in its region.
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Portsmouth hospitals exceed month one deficit target
FINANCE: Portsmouth Hospitals Trust is already exceeding its planned deficit by more than a third, reporting a £1.23m funding gap, which is £300,000 worse than the forecast figure for April 2011.
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NewsHealth Bill: competition changes may not be ‘substantive’
The changes to Monitor’s role brought about by amendments to the Health Bill may not be “substantive”, lawyers have warned.
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NewsFour GP visits before cancer diagnosis for quarter of young patients
A survey of young people with cancer found that six in 10 believed they could have been diagnosed earlier.
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NewsAbuse case care home closes today
The Bristol care home at the centre of allegations of routine abuse of vulnerable adults with learning difficulties will close today (24 June).
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NewsHealth Bill: government publishes 181 amendments
The government has tabled 181 amendments to the Health Bill following a review of health secretary Andrew Lansley’s controversial original proposals.
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NewsReview children's heart unit closures, MPs told
Plans to close specialist heart surgery units for children should be reconsidered and other options looked at, MPs have been told.
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NewsDistrict generals face questions over their survival
The Department of Health’s head of provider development has questioned whether district general hospitals can survive within their present “organisational boundaries”.
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NewsDH in row with NAO over value for money of social enterprises
A report claiming that social enterprises run by staff might not deliver better services or produce financial savings, has sparked a row between the Department of Health and the National Audit Office.
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Portsmouth Hospitals Trust breaches full-year diagnostics target in one month
PERFORMANCE: Portsmouth University Hospitals Trust has launched a recruitment drive after failing to meet a target on diagnostic waiting times, recording more than double the allowed breaches for a year in the first month of 2011-12.
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Royal Bournemouth ditches closure plans
STRUCTURE: Proposals to close a hospital and redevelop the entire site as an older people’s village have been ditched after overwhelming public opposition, despite potential savings of £1.5m a year.
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Western Sussex Hospitals loses FT development director
WORKFORCE: The trust’s corporate and foundation trust development director has left to take up an advisory post at a legal firm.
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Coventry PCT beats surplus target, despite commissioning overspends
FINANCE: Coventry PCT delivered an additional £500,000 in savings on top of meeting its surplus target for 2010-11, despite a more than £10m over-performance in acute and non-acute commissioning.
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NewsPublic lose trust in Conservatives on health
Labour has almost doubled its poll lead over the Conservatives on health since the general election campaign in the face of concern over rising waiting times and falling standards, according to a survey by Ipsos MORI.