News – Page 1446
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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals makes NICE award finals
PERFORMANCE: A service designed by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been selected as a finalist for the 2011 NICE Shared Learning Awards.
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Barnsley PCT makes early agreement on acute contract
FINANCE: Barnsley PCT has reached early agreement with its main acute provider Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust for 2011-12, despite financial pressures.
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NICE shortlists Central Manchester University Hospitals for award
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s home haemodialysis team, which is based at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, has been shortlisted for a NICE Shared Learning Award.
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East Lancs Hospitals amber-green against foundation trust standards
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s February performance would have been rated amber-green against foundation trust regulator Monitor’s compliance framework, a report to its April board meeting states.
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NHS West Kent reports bowel cancer screening success
PERFORMANCE: The primary care trust said more than half the people sent self screening kits for bowel cancer in 2010 returned them to the PCT for assessment.
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George Eliot Hospital gets SHA funds to balance books
FINANCE: George Eliot Hospital Trust under performed last year on its contract with Warwickshire primary care trust.
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East Lancs Hospitals Trust agrees £307.5m acute contract for 2011-12
FINANCE: The trust has secured a £307.5m acute services contract for 2011-12, in what it believes to be one of the first contract negotiations for the year concluded in Cumbria or Lancashire.
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Barnsley FT recognised for cancer patients' good experience
PERFORMANCE: Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been rated third-best in the country by MacMillan Cancer Support for the quality of cancer patients’ hospital experience.
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North East Ambulance plans quality governance improvements
STRUCTURE: North East Ambulance Service Trust is improving its quality governance processes as part of preparing for its foundation trust application.
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North East Ambulance 'could become FT from August'
STRUCTURE: North East Ambulance Service Trust has made a foundation trust application to Monitor, and says its earliest possible authorisation date is August 2011.
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NewsBlood clot failings cost NHS £112m
The NHS has paid out £112m in compensation over the last five years after doctors failed to spot deadly blood clots, according to new research.
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NewsExecutive-level pay jumps by 4.5 per cent
The basic pay of NHS chief executives has jumped by 4.5 per cent, with median earnings now more than £150,000, research revealed today.
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NewsCameron committed to coalition ahead of NHS backlash
David Cameron stressed his commitment to the coalition as ministers prepared to debate face-to-face across the Cabinet table today, amid significantly heightened tensions between the Westminster government partners.
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NewsLansley remains defiant over NHS reform
Andrew Lansley has refused to abandon the “principles” of his NHS reforms as he fights mounting political pressure over the radical shake-up proposed in the Health Bill.
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‘Prevention Assessment Team’ launched in West Sussex
WORKFORCE: A new community service has been set up to improve the health and wellbeing of adults and older people in West Sussex.
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NHS West Sussex sets out home oxygen tender plan
COMMERCIAL: Primary care trusts in the South East Coast region aim to have signed a new contract for provision of home oxygen services by June.
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Sussex Partnership hails success of consultant nurse post
WORKFORCE: The mental health trust appointed one of the country’s first senior nursing posts dedicated to older people’s mental health three months ago to help more people be cared for at home rather than in hospital.
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NHS Medway announces latest results for bowel screening uptake
PERFORMANCE: The primary care trust said just over half the people sent self screening kits for bowel cancer in 2010 returned them to the PCT for assessment.
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Plymouth Hospitals chief to take up health board post in Wales
WORKFORCE: Chief executive of Plymouth Hospitals Trust Paul Roberts has announced he is leaving to take up a new post in the Welsh NHS.
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'Tough year' ahead for Suffolk mental health trust
PERFORMANCE: Suffolk Partnership trust has predicted a “tough year” ahead due to a challenging savings target and the tendering of talking therapies services in the year.