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North West savings progress still leaves room for trusts to improve

2012-01-12T07:55:00Z

Christmas may seem like a distant memory, but it’s worth recalling that the North of England went home for the break with a big gold star on its Department of Health report card.

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Greater Manchester signs £1.8m home oxygen contract

2012-01-11T18:13:00Z

COMMERCIAL: The Greater Manchester cluster of primary care trusts has signed a contract worth an estimated £1.8m for the provision of home oxygen services to all 10 PCTs in the area.

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Greater Manchester cluster proposes responsibility for networks’ funding

2012-01-11T18:11:00Z

STRUCTURE: The NHS Greater Manchester ‘cluster’ of primary care trusts has proposed that it take over responsibility funds held to support the Making it Better reconfiguration of the city’s maternity services.

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Blears: Salford Royal to cut 400 posts over three years

2012-01-11T12:54:00Z

UPDATED 12/01/12WORKFORCE: Salford Royal Foundation Trust has cut 200 nursing posts this year, and will cut the same number again over the coming two years, Salford and Eccles MP Hazel Blears told parliament yesterday.

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Former Central Manchester FT manager awarded £1m in race discrimination tribunal

2012-01-11T09:55:00Z

WORKFORCE: An employment tribunal has awarded a former manager at Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust nearly £1m damages for racial discrimination and unfair dismissal.

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Mersey Care books £5.4m cost reductions to end of November

2012-01-10T19:17:00Z

FINANCE: At the end of November 2011 the mental health trust had recorded cost improvement programme savings of £5.4m, against a target of £8m for the full year, 2011-12.

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Southport and Ormskirk cuts 2011-12 forecast to break-even

2012-01-09T20:02:00Z

FINANCE: The trust has revised its forecast for 2011-12 down from a £1.7m surplus to break-even, its latest finance report shows.

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NHS Blackpool chief executive seconded to acute provider

2012-01-06T18:33:00Z

WORKFORCE: The primary care trust’s chief executive, Wendy Swift, has been seconded to Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust as their managing director of community services.

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Blackburn with Darwen reported on course for £1.4m surplus

2012-01-06T18:33:00Z

FINANCE: At the end of October the commissioner was forecasting its planned £1.4m surplus for 2011-12, and showing a £933,000 surplus for the year to date.

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East Lancs Hospitals sees rise in activity from Rochdale A&E closure

2012-01-06T18:32:00Z

FINANCE: The closure of the accident and emergency department at the nearby Rochdale Infirmary has driven up emergency activity at East Lancashire, triggering financial penalties for the trust, its commissioners have reported.

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NHS Blackpool spending £2.6m lower than planned at October end

2012-01-06T18:32:00Z

FINANCE: At the end of October the commissioner was showing a surplus of £3.4m for the year to date, £2.6m above its planned underspend to that point, according to NHS Lancashire PCT cluster’s latest finance report.

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Commissioners forecast around £2.7m overspend on Lancs Teaching Hospitals

2012-01-06T18:31:00Z

FINANCE: Four of the five Lancashire primary care trusts were forecasting year end overspends in excess of £400,000 with the foundation at the end of September, their cluster’s latest finance report shows.

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NHS Bolton secures £150,000 to help clear dental waiting lists

2012-01-06T18:26:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust has secured £150,000 to help clear 2,000 patients from the waiting list for NHS dentistry, according to its latest performance report.

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250 Pennine Acute ‘backlog’ patients transferred to private sector

2012-01-04T18:30:00Z

PERFORMANCE: 250 of the trust’s patients will be transferred to the private sector in an effort to improve waiting times at Pennine Acute, one of its commissioners has reported.

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Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale seeks out uses for £1.7m underspend

2012-01-04T18:16:00Z

FINANCE: At the end of October 2011 the primary care trust had under-spent its budget to the value of £1.7m, according to its latest finance report.

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East Lancs midwife gets OBE

2012-01-03T18:28:00Z

WORKFORCE: Sheena Byrom, a consultant midwife at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, has been awarded an OBE for services to midwifery.

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Liverpool PCT chair gets OBE

2012-01-03T18:25:00Z

WORKFORCE: NHS Liverpool chair Gideon Ben-Tovim has been awarded an OBE for services to health.

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NHS Bury forecasts breakeven after £3m additional allocation

2012-01-03T18:24:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust was forecasting it would break even for 2011-12 at the end of October after receiving an additional £3m in-year allocation, its latest finance report shows.

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Salford Royal manager recognised in New Year honours

2012-01-03T17:41:00Z

WORKFORCE: A human resources services manager at the foundation has received an MBE in the new year honours list.

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Wirral among worst in country for referral to treatment times – DH report

2011-12-23T10:12:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The trust was among the 10 worst in the country on referral-to-treatment waiting times in September, according to the Department of Health’s latest quarterly report.