NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire CCG – Page 3
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HSJ LocalAcute trusts seek to establish 'blueprint' for regional locum agencies
COMMERCIAL: Nine South West trusts have embarked on an initiative to bring down the cost of hiring locum doctors, which it hopes will be a “blueprint” for the health service across the country.
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HSJ Local
Special measures trust looking for two new ‘buddies’
PERFORMANCE: Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust is in talks to enter into a formal ‘buddying’ arrangement with Royal United Hospitals Bath FT, following the end of its relationship with Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals FT.
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HSJ Local
Updated: Bath FT's takeover of specialist trust given green light
STRUCTURE: Royal United Hospitals Bath Foundation Trust has taken over Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases FT after its proposal was approved by Monitor.
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News
Ambulance services given extra time to assess patient need
Ambulance services in two areas will be given two minutes longer to assess patient need before sending out a response vehicle, under a pilot scheme announced by the health secretary today.
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HSJ Local
CCG to extend community provider contract
COMMERCIAL: Bath and North East Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group is to extend the contract of its community services provider by a year, with it now ending in March 2017.
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HSJ Local
Rheumatology patients turned away due to pressure on service
Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust has became the latest hospital to close its doors to patients because of “extremely high demand” on its services.
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HSJ Local
Wiltshire CCG uses £4.3m winter pressure cash for service redesign
FINANCE: Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group is to use the £4.3m it has been allocated from the government’s winter pressures funding to support service redesign schemes to halt unnecessary hospital admissions.
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HSJ Local
Bath GPs to launch diabetes drug trial
CLINICAL RESEARCH: A network of GP surgeries around Bath has been selected as the site of a clinical trial for a diabetes drug from the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
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HSJ Local
Bath hospital delivers maternity services after 22 years
PERFORMANCE: Royal United Hospital Bath Trust has taken back the provision of maternity services after 22 years of the services run by other NHS providers.
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HSJ Local
Bristol CCG plans £250m community services tender
Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group has approved plans to tender the city’s community health services and said it anticipates “significant” interest in the contract from providers across the country.
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HSJ Local
Two CSUs announce formal merger
STRUCTURE: Two commissioning support units have announced they are entering into a formal merger.
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News
Many healthcare assistants start work without training
A quarter of trusts allow healthcare assistants to start work on the wards without undergoing any training for the job, HSJ research reveals.
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HSJ Local
CCG considers seven-year community services contract
COMMERCIAL: Bath and North East Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group plans to re-commission its community health and social care services on an unprecedentedly long contract of up to seven years.
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HSJ Knowledge
Best of 2013: Clinical leadership
The challenges clinical leaders have face in the last 12 months
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HSJ Knowledge
How Bath developed new thinking on coping with winter pressures
A new approach to seasonal care
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HSJ Local
Social enterprise wins £65m community services contract
COMMERCIAL: Commissioners have awarded the contract to run South Gloucestershire’s community services to a social enterprise based in Bath.
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HSJ Local
Marginal tariff money to support seven day working in Bath
PERFORMANCE: Commissioners in Bath and Wiltshire have agreed a plan to spend cash withheld from their local acute trust following a rise in emergency activity on helping it move towards seven day working.
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HSJ Local
Wiltshire CCG conditions lifted
STRUCTURE: NHS Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group has had all of its conditions of authorisation lifted following a review by NHS England.
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HSJ Local
Conditions lifted at Swindon CCG
STRUCTURE: NHS Swindon Clinical Commissioning Group has had all of its conditions of authorisation lifted following a review by NHS England.
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News
Second wave of community budgets announced
A second wave of areas adopting community budgets, bringing together funding for local public services, has been announced by communities secretary Eric Pickles.
