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Manchester PCT looks to delegate £696m commissioning
STRUCTURE: Manchester primary care trust is planning to delegate £696m spending - around 70 per cent of its budget - to its emerging commissioning consortia from April.
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North Lancs seeks to pass budget to three consortia
STRUCTURE: North Lancashire Teaching PCT is seeking to delegate its total funding allocation to three emerging commissioning consortia from April.
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Cancer tsar offers risk sharing deal for Manchester cancer network
PERFORMANCE: Greater Manchester’s hospitals could share responsibility for meeting cancer hospital the Christie’s 62 day waiting target, under a deal proposed by the government’s cancer tsar.
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Local government steps in to resolve PCT leadership
STRUCTURE: Local authority chief executives have been drafted in to help fill a leadership vacuum in the North West.
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NewsShake-up opposed by Lansley gets green light
A controversial reconfiguration criticised by Andrew Lansley before he became health secretary has finally been given the go ahead.
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NewsPCT 'first' to look at commissioning social enterprise
NHS Western Cheshire staff may launch the first commissioning support social enterprise.
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NHS Blackpool savings plan slips another £1m behind in one month
FINANCE: The primary care trust fell another £1,060,831 behind on its savings plan between November and December.
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Knowsley opts for two consortia after merger
STRUCTURE: Two commissioning consortia are developing in Knowsley, following the merger of three local practice-based commissioning groups.
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NHS Bolton holding elections for two consortia
STRUCTURE: NHS Bolton is holding elections to the leadership of two emerging commissioning consortia.
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Bed-blocking NHS Sefton patients will get 48 hours to vacate
PERFORMANCE: Bed blocking patients in Sefton who turn down transitional placements will be given 48 hours to make their own arrangements.
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The Christie could face red rating due to 'flawed' cancer waiting times target
PERFORMANCE: Care services minister Paul Burstow has written to the foundation acknowledging that its difficulties meeting the 62 day cancer treatment waiting times target are due to problems in the Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cancer Network ‘as a whole’.
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5 Boroughs chief exec warns white paper has robbed his area of strong PCT leadership
STRUCTURE: The foundation’s chief executive warned his board that all of their commissioners were lacking ‘substantive leadership’ as a result of the Liberating the NHS white paper.
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GPs expected to bust Liverpool PCT’s prescribing budget
FINANCE: The primary care trust has reported that its GPs are due to overspend on prescribing budgets by £5.7m.
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Central Manchester FT falls behind on surplus plan
FINANCE: Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust is forecasting a surplus this financial year but is significantly behind its financial plan.
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Teenagers placed in adult wards at Greater Manchester West Mental Health FT
PERFORMANCE: Twenty-six hospital bed days in adult psychiatric wards were occupied by patients aged 16 and 17 at Greater Manchester West Mental Health Foundation Trust in quarter two.
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Central Manchester University FT one of eight chosen maternity and children's acute in region
Structure: Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust runs one of just eight sites in the greater Manchester region selected to provide overnight maternity and children’s services in the future.
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Chief executive appointed at Liverpool PCT’s former provider arm
WORKFORCE: Liverpool Primary Care Trust’s community provider arm has appointed a chief executive.
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Royal Liverpool increases cleaning and inspection of stairwells after patient falls and dies
PERFORMANCE: The trust has undertaken an “extensive” investigation of its 59 sets of stairs, following the death of a patient who fell down a stairwell.
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Overperformance and pay underspends see Walton Centre surplus rocket above plan
FINANCE: The foundation was showing a cumulative surplus of £2.8m at the end of October, £2m greater than the surplus it had planned to record by that date.
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On-call doctor investigated after Calderstones patient suffers Christmas day cardiac arrest
PERFORMANCE: The mental health foundation trust has launched an investigation into the actions of an on-call doctor after a patient in its Maplewood facility suffered cardiac arrest on Christmas day.