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NHS Blackpool banks £2.4m QIPP savings in four months

2011-09-20T17:00:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust had achieved £2.4m of its planned £8.1m quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings by the end of July, board papers state.

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NHS Central Lancashire predicted to miss QIPP savings target by £1.4m

2011-09-20T16:58:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust was forecast to miss its £18.1m quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings target for 2011-12 by £1.4m, cluster board papers state.

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NHS Blackburn with Darwen ‘banks’ 90 per cent of 2011-12 QIPP savings in four months

2011-09-20T16:55:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust had achieved 90 per cent of its planned £6.3m quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings just four months into the financial year, board papers state.

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NHS East Lancs books £12.5m of QIPP savings in four months

2011-09-20T16:53:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust had achieved 57 per cent of its planned £22.1m quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings four months into 2011-12, board papers state.

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Manchester cancer waits see 'little improvement' since tsar's report

2011-09-16T18:35:00Z

PERFORMANCE: A report for Greater Manchester commissioners has found “little sustained improvement” in the area’s poor cancer waiting times, despite the intervention in February of the government’s cancer tsar.

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NHS Manchester identifies £6.8m of forecast overspends

2011-09-16T18:18:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust has identified forecast overspends of £6.8m for 2011-12, the latest NHS Greater Manchester finance report states.

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NHS Bury back in surplus

2011-09-16T18:15:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust’s in-year finances were back in the black in July after it received a “non-recurrent financial allocation” to cover the restructuring costs of its £25m savings plan.

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Clinical commissioners talk mergers in Pennine Lancashire

2011-09-15T18:01:00Z

STRUCTURE: Clinical commissioning groups across Pennine Lancashire are discussing potential mergers, the primary care trust’s chief executive has reported.

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NHS Blackpool nearly £1m under-spent by July 31

2011-09-15T18:01:00Z

FINANCE: At the end of July the primary care trust was showing a year-to-date under-spend of £929,000, its latest finance report shows.

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67 mixed sex accommodation breaches in three months at Salford Royal

2011-09-14T18:41:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The foundation had 67 breaches of rules against mixed sex accommodation in the first three months of 2011-12, commissioners report.

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46 mixed sex accommodation breaches in three months at UHSM

2011-09-14T18:40:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The foundation had 46 breaches of rules against mixed sex accommodation in the first three months of 2011-12, commissioners report.

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NW to consider rules on 'financial impact' of reconfigurations involving PFI

2011-09-12T18:34:00Z

STRUCTURE: The strategic health authority has confirmed it is working on a set of rules for handling the “financial impact” of reconfigurations involving private finance initiative buildings.

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New chair for Cumbria Partnership

2011-09-09T18:14:00Z

WORKFORCE: Mike Taylor, the current chair of NHS Cumbria, has been appointed the new chair of Cumbria Partnership Foundation Trust.

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Morecambe maternity services rapped by regulator

2011-09-09T00:00:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Divisions between senior medical staff contributed to maternity services at University Hospitals Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust failing to meet essential safety standards, the Care Quality Commission has warned.

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NHS Warrington facing 'probable' £4.5m deficit for 2011-12

2011-09-08T19:06:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust is facing a “probable” deficit of £4.5m in 2011-12, according to its cluster’s latest finance report.

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GP plans may result in ‘even greater reductions in funding’ for Countess of Chester

2011-09-08T18:23:00Z

FINANCE: The foundation trust has warned that the, as yet unconfirmed, long-term commissioning intentions of pathfinder clinical commissioning groups may force it to make “significant workforce reductions”.

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Acute trust advertises for new chief executive

2011-09-07T18:31:00Z

WORKFORCE: Chesterfield Royal Hospital in Derbyshire has advertised for a new chief executive.

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Manchester hospital rapped after medical student lost patient details

2011-09-07T15:45:00Z

PERFORMANCE: University Hospital of South Manchester FT breached the Data Protection Act by losing sensitive personal information relating to the treatment of 87 patients, the Information Commissioner’s Office has said.

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Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen to lose BRC funding

2011-09-06T17:55:00Z

FINANCE: The trust will lose its biomedical research centre funding at the end of this financial year, after losing out in the competition for the next round of five-year funding, an NHS North West board paper shows.

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Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust appoints new medical director

2011-09-06T17:51:00Z

WORKFORCE: Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust has announced the appointment of Dr Sally Bradley as its new medical director.