News – Page 767
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HSJ LocalTrust posts £8m surplus after third quarter
FINANCE: South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare Foundation Trust had a surplus of £8.26m on income and expenditure as of 31 December.
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HSJ LocalUPDATED: Community hospitals review underway as CCG forecasts £11m deficit
STRUCTURE: Surrey Downs Clinical Commissioning Group is undertaking a review into the future of its four community hospitals.
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HSJ LocalCommissioners told to tighten up job applicant checks
WORKFORCE: Counter fraud specialists at NHS Protect have warned West and South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Commissioning Support Unit about ‘inconsistencies’ and ‘weakness’ in their pre-employment checks.
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HSJ LocalHinchingbrooke to return to NHS management next month
STRUCTURE: The UK’s only privately-run NHS hospital will be handed back to the health service next month, the NHS Trust Development Authority has confirmed.
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NewsMapped: Quarter of area teams resort to NHS England arbitration
HSJ’s map of NHS England arbitration of disputes between providers and clinical commissioning groups since April 2013
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HSJ LocalCCG to consider future for GP ‘acute visits’ scheme
PERFORMANCE: Hardwick Clinical Commissioning Group is examining the future of a scheme which allows patients with acute problems to be visited during daytime by a nurse within two hours of a call to a GP surgery.
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HSJ Local£25m mental health hospital opens in Liverpool
MENTAL HEALTH: Mersey Care Trust has opened a £25m, 80 bed hospital for mental health patients providing short stay treatment and a psychiatric intensive care unit.
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NewsBudget round up: Chancellor outlines £1.25bn mental health package
Chancellor George Osborne today outlined how a £1.25bn mental health funding package will be spent over the next five years, as part of plans for the government’s next budget.
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HSJ LocalNurse shortages at trust highlighted in 25 incident reports
WORKFORCE: Shortages of ward nurses were recorded in 25 incident reports in January at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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HSJ LocalTrams to hospital will ease congestion and car parking, says chief executive
ACUTE CARE: Power lines are being tested on tram tracks scheduled to open later this year going to the Queen’s Medical Centre is Nottingham.
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NewsTougher penalties under new NHS contract
Penalties for breaching referral to treatment targets have been toughened up to try to bring down waiting lists, in the final standard contract issued by NHS England, but sanctions for accident and emergency and elective treatment breaches have been reduced.
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HSJ LocalCass: Neonatal facilities ‘transformed’ by new unit
ACUTE CARE: Bradford Royal Infirmary has opened a £2m neonatal unit complete with ensuite family bedrooms, play area and a counselling suite.
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HSJ LocalChesterfield Royal misses cancer target
PERFORMANCE: Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust has missed the national target for treating cancer patients within 62 days of screening for the third month in a row.
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Bedfordshire CCG accountable officer resigns
WORKFORCE: Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group’s accountable officer has resigned.
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HSJ LocalAiredale surplus better than planned
FINANCE: Airedale Foundation Trust posted a surplus of £393,000 at the end of January, £275,000 more than planned.
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NewsRanked: Whipps Cross poorest hospital rated by CQC to date
Whipps Cross University Hospital is by one measure, the poorest hospital to be rated by the Care Quality Commission to date.
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HSJ LocalTrusts sells part of hospital site to housing developers
COMMERCIAL: Northumberland Tyne and Wear Foundation Trust has sold land at its Northgate Hospital site for a net £13.7m to housing developers
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NewsExclusive: DH agreed extra bailouts for trusts where performance was at risk
The Department of Health arranged at least £39m in extra ‘essential’ capital funding for foundation trusts where patient safety or ‘ongoing operations’ were at risk because of maintenance backlogs, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsCCGs given only two weeks to finalise primary care budget arrangements
Commissioners have been left with only two weeks to finalise potentially complex legal arrangements for taking control of their primary care budgets.
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HSJ Local‘No one held accountable’ for Hinchingbrooke deal, says PAC report
PERFORMANCE: Oversight of the contract for NHS’s only privately run hospital was ‘poor and inadequate’ and ‘no one has been held accountable for the consequences’, MPs have said.