All NHS Salford CCG articles – Page 2
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CommentAnalysis: The areas seeing sustained falls in emergency admissions
Containing and reducing emergency hospital admissions is often seen as the holy grail of sustainable and better integrated healthcare. For most it has been elusive, but HSJ has identified and spoken to several areas which appear to have seen sustained reductions in recent years.
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Expert BriefingVAT risk for major Manchester contract
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. By Lawrence Dunhill
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HSJ LocalSingle trust accounts for nearly a quarter of 'trolley waits'
Pennine Acute Hospital Trust reported 786 cases last year where patients waited more than 12 hours to be admitted to a ward Continuing high number of breaches have prompted NHS England to raise the issue with Devo Manc team Serious concerns were raised about the trust’s emergency services by ...
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Crashing the devo party
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. By Lawrence Dunhill
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: The £6bn contract
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. By Lawrence Dunhill
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NewsNHS will not be 'subsumed' by Greater Manchester Combined Authority
A “significant amount” of health and care commissioning in Greater Manchester will be done by provider organisations in future, the new chief executive of the region’s combined authority has said.
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Comment'Devo health' is pushing national legislation to its limits
Greater Manchester shows that if local areas can build strong relationships between partners around an ambitious local reform plan, they can make very real progress
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HSJ Local'Inadequate' trust secures £40m support package
Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust was rated inadequate last year and has severe problems in its maternity services Sir David Dalton said the additional funding would be “enough in the short term to get us on the right trajectory” There have been calls for the Department of Health to provide ...
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HSJ LocalDevo Manc leaders seek 'best deal' for trust turnaround
No national funding has been given to the turnaround work at Pennine Acute Hospitals Similar turnaround efforts have received significant financial support from the Department of Health Leaders say “best deal possible” will be reached for 2017-18 Leaders in Greater Manchester have said they need to be “realistic” ...
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News'Ominous' social care warning from leading STP
Devolution leaders have forecast a £176m financial gap for social care services by 2021. Greater Manchester is better placed than most regions to deliver its STP, because of its £450m transformation fund. But demand and cost pressures ’significantly outweigh’ the government’s additional funding Health leaders in ...
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HSJ LocalCancer surgery decision ends decade long dispute
Salford Royal Foundation Trust has been chosen as the single site for some specialised cancer services in Greater Manchester, HSJ understands.
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HSJ Local
Children face ‘heart breaking’ delays for dental surgery
Children forced to wait up to a year for tooth extractions under general anaesthetic More than 1,500 children on the waiting list across all providers in Greater Manchester Dealing with the problems escalated to NHS England Leaders in Greater Manchester have drawn up plans to address a crisis ...
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HSJ LocalMajor acute trust to be rated inadequate
QUALITY: A large acute trust in Greater Manchester is set to be rated inadequate by the Care Quality Commission, HSJ understands.
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HSJ LocalLandmark reconfiguration held up by capital funding squeeze
Healthier Together reconfiguration delayed due to constraints on capital funding The project in Greater Manchester requires £35m-£61m of capital funding, but only £3m has so far been confirmed Local leaders revisit implementation plan to “send clear message that commissioners are committed” FINANCE: Health leaders in Greater Manchester have ...
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HSJ LocalTwo major trusts could give up 'sovereignty' to hospital chain
’Hospital chain’ set to have two categories of members, with some relinquishing a greater degree of sovereignty Salford Royal Foundation Trust and Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust could become ’full integrated members’, with Wigan and Bolton trusts as ’associates’ There have been ‘divergent views’ over how the chain should operate ...
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HSJ LocalHundreds of council staff to transfer to vanguard trust
440 council staff set to transfer to Salford Royal Foundation Trust to become part of a new “integrated care organisation” Set to be one of the first vanguard new care models to be fully realised Some areas have felt unable to fully integrate health and social care contracts due ...
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: The bitter smell of success
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. By Lawrence Dunhill
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HSJ LocalSalford 'appears' favourite to be cancer surgery centre
Commissioners favour Salford Royal as single site for upper gastrointestinal surgery Discussions continue over urology surgery Previous efforts to reconfigure both services have been highly contentious STRUCTURE: Commissioners in Greater Manchester are likely to choose Salford Royal Foundation Trust as the single site for some specialised cancer services, ...
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NewsFree HSJ webinar: the role of nutrition in managing long term conditions
The webinar has now taken place and can be watched here (you need to register your email address)
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HSJ LocalA&E failure may trigger national intervention in Manchester devolution
NHS England could intervene in devolution if performance on the headline A&E target drops Several Greater Manchester trusts among worst in England for A&E performance CCGs will not have to maintain a 1 per cent surplus individually Initial arrangements described as “synthetic” devolution PERFORMANCE: A number of performance ...