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HSJ Local
North Cumbria savings target under pressure from 2011 shortfall
FINANCE: Shortfalls in North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust’s 2011-12 savings programme have nearly doubled the cost reductions it will need this year, its latest finance report shows.
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NewsNorth Cumbria takeover bidder estimated it would need £78m over two years
FINANCE: The preferred bidder to take over North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust has estimated it needs the government to pump £78m of financial support into the troubled trust over the next two years.
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HSJ Local
Preferred bidder could start running North Cumbria before takeover cleared
STRUCTURE: Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust could take over day-to-day management of North Cumbria from April, months before its proposed acquisition of the trust can be completed, board papers state.
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HSJ Local
North Cumbria hospital rebuild affordable, commissioners to be told
COMMERCIAL: A revised business case for rebuilding the trust’s West Cumberland Hospital is now “fully compliant” with future commissioners’ plans, a special NHS Cumbria board meeting will be told.
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News
Healthcare trust hopes to nationalise second-ever PFI hospital
The foundation trust poised to take over one of England’s first ever private finance initiative hospitals hopes to renationalise it, HSJ has learned.
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News
Government estimates central bail-out of seven trusts will cost £1.5bn
The government has estimated that bailing out hospital trusts with large PFI repayments could cost £1.5bn.
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HSJ Local
North Cumbria selects preferred takeover bid
STRUCTURE: North Cumbria University Hospitals has named Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust as its preferred bidder to take over the trust.
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Comment
Cumbrian cause for concern in the North West
Will Andrew Lansley stick with his habit of using Cumbria as poster child for GP commissioning?
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HSJ Local
Emergency care pressure drives NHS Cumbria secondary care overspend
FINANCE: At the end of November the primary care trust’s budget for its two local hospitals was on course for an overspend of £4.9m this year, its latest finance report shows.
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HSJ Local
North Cumbria savings plan forecast to fall £7m short
FINANCE: North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust had achieved just £3.7m of its planned £15.2m savings for 2011-12 by the end of November, its latest performance report shows.
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HSJ Local
Calls for North Cumbria University Hospitals management to step down
PERFORMANCE: Nurses, unions and other medical staff have issued an unprecedented joint attack on management at the trust and are calling for senior officials to go.
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News
Hospital mergers have little benefit, study suggests
Waiting times have risen and financial performance has declined at NHS hospitals following mergers, a study has found.
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News
Revealed: the six trusts that need DH support with their PFI
Six hospital trusts have been identified as needing Department of Health cash support with their private finance initiative payments in order to make foundation trust status, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
North Cumbria chief warns staff trust has entered 'financial crisis'
FINANCE: The chief executive of a Cumbria trust slated for takeover wrote to staff yesterday warning that the trust was now in “financial crisis” and would urgently investigate the scope to bring forward ward closures and other savings plans.
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News
North Cumbria clinicians were failed by management, new chief says
The man brought in to lead a Cumbrian trust through a takeover process has said it would have kept its independence if managers had tackled financial problems two years earlier.
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HSJ Local
North Cumbria University Hospitals speeds up takeover process
STRUCTURE: The trust board decided last night to accelerate the timetable for its planned takeover, and expects to be able to choose its preferred bidder in January this year.
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HSJ Local
NHS Cumbria looks for extra measures to offset projected £4m acute overspend
FINANCE: The primary care trust has pulled together plans for £3m worth of “further measures” to offset a projected overspend on its 2011-12 acute provider contracts.
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HSJ Local
North Cumbria University Hospitals records one mixed sex breach in September
PERFORMANCE: North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust recorded one breaches of the Department of Health’s guidelines on mixed sex accommodation last month.
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HSJ Local
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay withdraws bid to take over neighbouring trust
STRUCTURE: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust has pulled out of the competition to take over a neighbouring trust, after Monitor declared it in “significant breach” of its authorisation.
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News
Lansley identifies 20 'unsustainable' trusts
The government has identified 20 trusts whose “clinical and financial stability is at risk” because of “cash-flow shortages” and legacy debt.
