North West – Page 117
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HSJ Local
Local critical care tariff 'key income risk' for The Christie
FINANCE: The foundation has identified the potential introduction in its area of local tariff prices for critical care as a “key income risk”, its draft plan for 2011-12 shows.
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HSJ Local
NICE shortlists Central Manchester University Hospitals for award
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s home haemodialysis team, which is based at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, has been shortlisted for a NICE Shared Learning Award.
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East Lancs Hospitals amber-green against foundation trust standards
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s February performance would have been rated amber-green against foundation trust regulator Monitor’s compliance framework, a report to its April board meeting states.
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HSJ Local
Manchester mental health trust plans to escape PFI premises
FINANCE: Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust could be left with a £3.6m-a-year white elephant if a local mental health provider wins backing to vacate its premises on patient safety grounds.
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HSJ Local
East Cheshire NHS Trust shortlisted for coding award
PERFORMANCE: East Cheshire NHS Trust has been shortlisted for the CHKS data quality award for England.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to develop an affordable approach to workforce planning
A competence based approach piloted by NHS North West is showing great potential to achieve affordable workforce planning, as the authority’s assistant director of workforce strategy Robert Sumpter reports.
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HSJ Local
Cumbria PCT overspends budget by £5.9m in 2010-11
FINANCE: Draft accounts for 2010-11 show that the primary care trust finished the year overspent by £5.9m.
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NHS Manchester plans for £1m surplus on £1.03bn turnover
FINANCE: The primary care trust is planning to underspend its £1,033m allocation for 2011-12 by just £1m, NHS North West board papers report.
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HSJ Local
Monitor backlog holds up community services transfer to Royal Bolton
STRUCTURE: The transfer to the foundation of Bolton primary care trust’s community services is expected to be delayed until July, an NHS North West board report states.
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Monitor backlog holds up community services transfers to Lancashire Care FT
STRUCTURE: The transfer to the foundation of community services from three different primary care trusts is expected to be delayed until July, an NHS North West board report states.
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HSJ Local
Community services transfers to Blackpool FT face five month delay
STRUCTURE: The transfer to the foundation of community services from two different primary care trusts is now expected to be delayed until September, NHS North West board documents report.
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HSJ Local
Transfer of Stockport community services expected to be delayed until September
STRUCTURE: The transfer of the primary care trust’s provider arm under the Transforming Community Services programme is expected to be delayed until September, and NHS North West board report states.
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HSJ Local
North Cumbria redraws development plan
STRUCTURE: West Cumberland Hospital has had to redraw its redevelopment plans after losing an expected £10m contribution from the North West’s regional development agency.
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HSJ Local
Liverpool Women’s gives green light to research centre despite concerns about impact on clinical services
FINANCE: The foundation’s board approved plans to pursue the establishment of a research centre despite reservations that the decision could have a negative impact on its core clinical services, board documents show.
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HSJ Local
Provider contracts still in dispute
COMMERCIAL: A third of contracts between providers and commissioners in the North West are still incomplete, HSJ has discovered.
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HSJ Local
Salford Royal averts risk of mixed sex accommodation breaches
FINANCE: The foundation has found a short term “operational solution” to avoid huge fines from a surgical admissions lounge (SAL) in breach of tougher new rules on single sex accommodation.
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HSJ Local
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh FT plans whistleblowing hotline
WORKFORCE: Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh foundation trust will this month launch a whistleblowers’ hotline, after a 2010 review found a “culture of bullying” left some staff scared to raise safety concerns.
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HSJ Local
£1.9m hole in Countess of Chester 2011-12 savings plan
FINANCE: At the start of March the foundation trust had identified plans for cost savings of £5.1m in 2011-12, board papers show.
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HSJ Local
North Cumbria University Hospitals joint top for lung cancer services
PERFORMANCE: Lung cancer services in North Cumbria have been proven the best in the northern region, and joint best in England with University Hospitals of Birmingham.
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HSJ Local
Mid Cheshire savings on staffing levels cancelled out by agency pay bill
WORKFORCE: The foundation’s pay bill for the first nine months of 2010-11 was £2.7m higher than planned, its February finance report showed.