All North West articles – Page 110

HSJ Local

Hospital pharmacy shop opens at East Cheshire

2011-10-06T19:06:00Z

COMMERCIAL: An over-the-counter pharmacy shop has been opened this month at Macclesfield District General Hospital.

Comment

Change plans grind to a halt in the North West

2011-10-06T00:00:00Z

Change takes forever in the NHS. So long, sometimes, that by the time your plan is finally agreed it is out of date, or there are different people in charge and they want to develop a new plan.

HSJ Local

Savings shortfall leaves Southport and Ormskirk surplus 96 per cent behind plan

2011-10-04T19:09:00Z

FINANCE: Failure to meet cost improvement programme savings targets has left the trust with a surplus of just £59,000 for the first five months of 2011-12, against a planned surplus of £728,000.

HSJ Local

East Cheshire Trust £4.1m behind on savings plans

2011-10-04T10:44:00Z

FINANCE: At the end of August the trust was £4.1m behind on its £14.6m cost improvement programme savings plan for 2011-12, its latest finance report shows.

HSJ Local

North Cumbria finances remain ‘very fragile’ with £7m shortfall in savings plan

2011-10-03T17:43:00Z

FINANCE: After the first five months of 2011-12 the trust had achieved cost improvement programme savings of just £3m, against a target of £15.2m for the year.

HSJ Local

NHS Cumbria asks for recovery plan to avert £4m acute care overspend

2011-09-30T18:23:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust recorded a surplus of £145,000 for the first five months of 2011-12, against a plan to have under spent by £1.7m by that point in the financial year.

HSJ Local

NHS Oldham forecasts £5.3m savings shortfall

2011-09-29T18:03:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust was forecasting at the end of July that it would miss its 2011-12 QIPP (quality, innovation, productivity and prevention) savings plans by £5.3m.

HSJ Local

NHS Cumbria £1.6m behind on savings plan at end of August

2011-09-29T17:33:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust’s 2011-12 cost improvement programme savings were £1.6m behind target at the end of August, strategic health authority figures show.

News

Monitor threatens collective punishment for Greater Manchester over cancer

2011-09-29T12:40:00Z

Monitor has threatened to downgrade the governance ratings of nine foundation trusts in Greater Manchester if waiting times at the Christie Foundation Trust do not improve in the next six months.

HSJ Local

'No conflict' in contract awarded to private company associated with commissioners

2011-09-29T06:00:00Z

COMMERCIAL: A clinical commissioning group in the Wirral has awarded a place on a register of “any qualified providers” to a private company associated with most of the GP practices on the group’s board.

HSJ Local

Charities pledge £1m to Southport cancer centre

2011-09-28T18:42:00Z

FINANCE: Two charities have pledged £1m towards refurbishing and extending a cancer treatment centre for patients in north Sefton and West Lancashire.

HSJ Local

SHA calls ‘risk summit’ over Morecambe Bay maternity services

2011-09-28T18:25:00Z

PERFORMANCE: NHS North West has called a “risk summit” with University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust, regulators and local commissioners to ensure the safety of its maternity services, the strategic health authority’s chief executive has reported.

HSJ Local

Central Lancashire CCGs ask to work as separate committees

2011-09-28T15:44:00Z

STRUCTURE: The primary care trust’s board will be asked to break up the joint committee it agreed to establish for clinical commissioning groups, board papers for its meeting this week show.

HSJ Local

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals cash plan anticipates 'PFI support'

2011-09-27T19:22:00Z

FINANCE: The trust has reported that it will be able to manage its cash flow as planned provided it receives “all anticipated financial support” for its private finance initiative development.

HSJ Local

MRSA incidence 'over trajectory' at Salford Royal

2011-09-27T17:56:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The number of MRSA cases at Salford Royal Foundation Trust is “over trajectory” on meeting its target limit for 2011-12, NHS Salford board papers state.

HSJ Local

NHS Salford aims high for flu vaccine uptake

2011-09-27T17:10:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The primary care trust aims to ensure that more than three quarters of “at risk” under 65 year olds receive the flu vaccine this year, board papers state.

HSJ Local

NHS Bolton forecasts potential £2.3m savings shortfall

2011-09-26T18:41:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust was forecasting a potential £2.3m “under-delivery” of its planned £9.3m cost improvement programme savings for 2011-12, its August finance report shows.

HSJ Local

NHS Bolton asked to call halt to planned development of six health centres

2011-09-26T18:20:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust’s board will this week be asked to back proposals to call a halt to its plans to build 10 new health centres across the area.

HSJ Local

Aintree FT advises on introduction of medical emergency team at Whiston Hospital

2011-09-26T17:14:00Z

WORKFORCE: The foundation has been advising St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals Trust on its plans to introduce a multidisciplinary medical emergency team, it said in a statement.

HSJ Local

SHA sounds alarm bells about NHS Cumbria’s QIPP progress

2011-09-23T16:22:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust has been asked to provide a “detailed recovery plan” explaining when it will get its QIPP (quality, innovation, productivity and prevention) savings back on track, after they were rated “red” by NHS North West.