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HSJ Local
Jeremy Hunt backs South Gloucestershire CCG plans
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has backed plans to reconfigure hospital services in South Gloucestershire after they were referred to him by local councillors following a long-running row.
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NewsIncrease in NHS land designated for housing
Proposals to sell hospital sites contributed to an 11 per cent rise in the area of land being designated for sale for housing by English NHS organisations in 2012.
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HSJ Local
'Brave' South Gloucestershire CCG plans referred to health secretary
STRUCTURE: Councillors in South Gloucestershire have voted to refer plans to axe outpatient and diagnostic services at a local site to the health secretary.
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HSJ Local
North Bristol behind on surplus
FINANCE: North Bristol Trust was behind its finance plan by £1.4m at the end of October.
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News
Analysis: Elderly prioritised in spend of £250m A&E fund
HSJ analysis of the 53 trusts due to receive a share of the Department of Health’s £250m winter pressure fund shows many are prioritising improvements to the care of the frail elderly.
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HSJ Local
UHBristol fails cancer target after 'service swap'
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust failed the 62 day cancer target after it ceased to provide breast and urology services.
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HSJ Local
Ambulance handovers still big problem at North Bristol
PERFORMANCE: Almost half of ambulances arriving at North Bristol Trust in the last week of August waited more than 15 minutes to handover their patient to hospital staff.
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News
Concern over Monitor's Bristol 'merger' decision
Monitor has concluded that quality improvements borne of a recent reconfiguration of acute services in Bristol are not sufficient to outweigh the loss of patient choice resulting from the “merger”. The competition regulator said the decision would have “important considerations” for the “wider
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HSJ Local
Monitor given more time to consider Bristol service swaps
STRUCTURE: The Department of Health has granted Monitor more time to consider whether the benefits of service swaps between Bristol’s two acute trusts outweigh the loss of competition.
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HSJ Local
High levels of cancelled operations in Bristol
PERFORMANCE: Continuing pressure on acute hospital beds in Bristol has led to high levels of cancelled operations, CCG board papers report.
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HSJ Local
North Bristol disagrees with commissioner QIPP plans
FINANCE: North Bristol Trust is planning for income £6.5m above commissioner plans due in part to a lack of confidence in activity reduction plans and disagreements over waiting list backlogs, board papers reveal.
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HSJ Local
North Bristol agrees funding for hospital move
FINANCE: North Bristol Trust has agreed an additional £4.5m of non-recurrent transitional funding with NHS England to cover the costs of moving to the new private finance initiative hospital during 2013-14.
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HSJ Local
Plans for Bristol and Bath vascular network
STRUCTURE: North Bristol Trust’s Southmead hospital is likely to be the centre of a new vascular network across Bristol, Bath, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.
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HSJ Local
CCG warns on North Bristol ambulance handovers
PERFORMANCE: A performance board paper for South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group warns that North Bristol NHS Trust ambulance handover breach rates remain higher than the target, and that the ambulance trust failed to meet its target for 2012-13.
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News
Analysed: District general hospitals look to private patient income
District general hospitals are increasing their private patient offerings
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HSJ Local
NHS England director leaving to become North Bristol Trust chief executive
WORKFORCE: North Bristol Trust has appointed a new chief executive.
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Blogs
Sharp increase in English waiting list
The number of patients waiting rose sharply in March, and is now higher than in recent years and may indicate waiting time pressures to come. But bed pressures over winter do not explain all the increase
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News
High cost of fines for long waits revealed
English hospitals would have been fined £227m in 2012 if they had been subjected to the penalty regime written into their contracts for the current financial year, according to analysis shared exclusively with HSJ.
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HSJ Local
North Somerset A&E patients face long waits
PERFORMANCE: More than a quarter of north somerset patients who attended a local accident and emergency department in March faced waits of longer than four hours.
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HSJ Local
Five south west trusts report 12 hour trolley waits
PERFORMANCE: Seven patients admitted as emergencies to North Bristol Trust have waited more than 12 hours since the beginning of the financial year, more than any other trust in the south west.
