News – Page 1483
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NHS Medway on course to meet TCS deadline
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust is on course to fully divest its provider arm by the transforming community services deadline of April 2011, its strategic health authority has said.
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Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals wins deanery bid
STRUCTURE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has been selected as the host organisation for the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Deanery.
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Over activity at Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust
PERFORMANCE: Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust has reported over activity for elective care, including outpatient procedures 120 per cent above plan.
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Cambridge UHFT is £3.2m below its planned surplus for the year
FINANCE: Cambridge University Hospital FT has reported a surplus of over £650,000 for the year to date, £3.2m worse than plan.
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Dorset Healthcare meets all FT compliance targets
PERFORMANCE: Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust has reported that it did not breach any of its terms of authorisation in January 2011.
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Monitor holds up Dorset community services transfer
STRUCTURE: The transfer of community heathcare services to Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust is likely to be delayed beyond the Department of Health’s April 1 deadline due to a lack of capacity at the foundation trust regulator Monitor.
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Efficiency training for managers underway at Ashford and St Peter’s
WORKFORCE: Executives at Ashford and St Peter’s have received leadership training to try and make them more productive.
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A&E pressures at Ashford and St Peter’s
PERFORMANCE: Ashford and St Peter’s experienced significant capacity pressure in accident and emergency during February as a result of winter weather.
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NewsNHS staff feel excluded amid growing job security fears
The majority of NHS staff feel senior managers exclude them in decision making, according to the 2010 NHS staff survey.
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NewsDoctors give verdict on health reform
Doctors have made clear the opposition to the Health Bill within the profession, but stopped short of opposing the bill in its entirety.
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NewsBlood service privatisation criticised in Commons
Privatising parts of the National Blood Service could put people off donating as they would see companies profiting from their generosity, an MP said today.
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Lancashire Care behind on financial plan and savings programme
FINANCE: The foundation was £2m behind on its cost improvement savings programme at the end of January, and forecasting that it would not make its planned surplus for the year.
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Workforce vacancy increase at Hinchingbrooke
WORKFORCE: Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust has seen overall increases in staff vacancy rates and, in particular, a significant increase in the rate of vacancies for registered nurses.
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Newcastle hospitals firm speeds cancer screening
COMMERCIAL: A firm part-owned by Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust says it is offering faster turnaround breast cancer screening after developing new gene testing methods.
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NHS Somerset begins personal budget pilot
NHS Somerset has made its first direct payment for a personal health budget, as part of a national pilot programme.
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Eight SUI investigations exceed time limit at Cumbria Partnership
PERFORMANCE: Eight serious untoward incident investigations (SUIs) at the foundation exceeded their 45 day time limit in 2010, a summary account of its latest board meeting shows.
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Somerset community care divestment faces three-month delay
STRUCTURE: There is likely to be a three-month delay in authorisation for a new provider of community healthcare in the area because of the volume of referrals to Monitor, NHS Somerset has claimed.
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Doncaster plans extension of new bariatric service
STRUCTURE: Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust is planning to extend its bariatric surgery service which opened last year.
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NewsHinchingbrooke failing to protect patients, says CQC
Hinchingbrooke Healthcare Trust is failing to protect patients from “unsafe or inappropriate care, treatment and support”, the Care Quality Commission has ruled
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NewsBMA votes against rejecting entire Health Bill
The British Medical Association has voted not to reject the entire health bill in a secret ballot.