NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire CCG – Page 5

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Wiltshire cluster services to merge with Berkshire/Gloucestershire CSS

2012-03-30T18:25:00Z

STRUCTURE: Talks are already under way to further expand the NHS commissioning support service already stretching from Berkshire to Gloucestershire.
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Chair appointed for BANES and Wiltshire cluster

2012-03-20T16:43:00Z

WORKFORCE: NHS Wiltshire chair Tony Barron has been appointed to lead the Wiltshire and Bath and North East Somerset primary care trust cluster.
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Staff at BANES social enterprise motivated and engaged

2012-03-20T16:42:00Z

WORKFORCE: Sirona Care and Health, the new social enterprise delivering health and social care in Bath and North East Somerset, scored above avearge on staff engagement in the NHS staff survey.
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PCT chair to stand down

2012-03-14T10:58:00Z

WORKFORCE: The chair of NHS Bath and North East Somerset is to stand down at the end of the month when the primary care trust board finally merges with NHS Wiltshire.
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Performance improving at Avon and Wiltshire

2012-03-02T18:18:00Z

FINANCE: The amount being paid by Avon and Wiltshire Partnership Trust in contract penalties has continued to fall at the start of this year.
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New chief exec appointed to BANES cluster

2012-02-22T14:16:00Z

WORKFORCE: Ed Macalister Smith has been appointed to lead the Wiltshire and Bath and North East Somerset primary care trust cluster through its last year of existence.
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Three clusters advertise for commissioning support MD

2012-02-15T11:52:00Z

STRUCTURE: An NHS commissioning support service has advertised for a managing director “with commercial experience” and the “necessary commercial acumen to effectively grow the business”.
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Rise in 'digestive procedures' prompts overspend on private contract

2012-02-13T18:39:00Z

FINANCE: NHS Swindon is forecasting an overspend on its contract with the private provider BMI.
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NHS Swindon challenges GWH on overperformance

2012-02-13T18:38:00Z

FINANCE: NHS Swindon is at “significant” risk of failing to achieve its planned £2.9m surplus.
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Salisbury and Wiltshire dispute cost of services

2012-02-02T12:22:00Z

FINANCE: A £15m gap is opening up between what NHS Wiltshire wants to pay for services at Salisbury Foundation Trust in the next financial year and what the trust says they should cost.
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Commissioner contract still unsigned at RUH

2012-01-26T06:12:00Z

FINANCE: Royal United Hospital Bath Trust has still not signed a contract with its lead commissioner for 2011-12, less than three months before the end of the financial year.
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Software saves on NHS Wiltshire prescribing costs

2012-01-20T18:50:00Z

FINANCE: A software package that advises GPs when chepaer alternative drugs are available had saved NHS Wiltshire £708,000 as of the end of October.
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Bath and North East Somerset under-using ISTC contract

2012-01-16T10:39:00Z

FINANCE: NHS Bath and North East Somerset is under using its contract with independent provider UK Specialist Hospitals by £243,000.
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Oxygen cylinder explosion to be investigated by HSE

2012-01-16T10:38:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Patients had to be evacuated from the intensive care unit at Royal United Hospital Bath after an oxygen cylinder exploded.
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Cluster goes back to the drawing board on AQP

2012-01-13T15:20:00Z

COMMERCIAL: A south west primary care trust cluster has been told it will have to select an additional service to open up to any qualified provider after one of its first choices did not comply with national guidance.
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Wiltshire PCT downgrades surplus forecast

2011-12-15T16:47:00Z

FINANCE: NHS Wiltshire is no longer able to make a £6.5m surplus by the end of the financial year and has reduced its forecast to £2m.
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Swindon PCT looking for extra savings

2011-12-15T11:04:00Z

FINANCE: NHS Swindon is developing £4m of additional savings plans after it used up all its contingency reserves by halfway through the financial year.
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Gloucestershire cluster sets out AQP choices

2011-12-15T11:00:00Z

COMMERCIAL: The NHS in Swindon and Gloucestershire has identified three services to be opened up to any qualified provider - endoscopy, increased direct access to diagnostic scans and wheelchair services.
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Acute activity sparks overspend forecast at Bath and NE Somerset

2011-12-15T10:29:00Z

FINANCE: NHS Bath and North East Somerset is heading for an overspend of £5.2m on its commissioned services at year end - due mainly to more activity in the acute sector.
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Wiltshire's innovative outcomes based commissioning restricts patient choice

2011-11-17T18:23:00Z

STRUCTURE: NHS Wiltshire has commissioned an outcomes based continuing healthcare service designed to improve quality, reduce cost and link up with social care – but which completely restricts patient choice.