All North West articles – Page 113

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NHS North cluster names senior executive directors

2011-09-23T16:21:00Z

WORKFORCE: The senior executive team has been appointed for the NHS North cluster, made up of NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, North West and North East.

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NHS North West brings forward health visitor recruitment plans

2011-09-23T11:40:00Z

WORKFORCE: The strategic health authority has increased the number of health visitor training posts it will need to meet the government’s recruitment drive from 603 to 715, after the Department of Health raised questions about its original plan.

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Poor prescribing at root of C difficile problems in Tameside and Glossop

2011-09-22T18:46:00Z

PERFORMANCE: An analysis of the Tameside and Glossop area’s high rate of C difficile infection in the first three months of 2011-12 has found that the majority of cases were avoidable, and due to inappropriate prescribing.

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Costs data submitted by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals ‘incorrect’

2011-09-22T17:24:00Z

FINANCE: The foundation was among the 12 per cent of NHS trusts whose 2009-10 reference cost submissions were materially inaccurate, the Audit Commission reported today.

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Lancashire PCT cluster ‘banked’ £38m QIPP savings by end of July

2011-09-21T17:48:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust cluster is currently forecasting it will achieve £64.3m of its £66.7m quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings target in 2011-12, its latest board papers show.

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Lancashire Care FT revises reconfiguration blueprint, cutting planned beds by 298

2011-09-21T17:46:00Z

STRUCTURE: The foundation trust has revised its strategic plan for a major reconfiguration of inpatient mental health services across Lancashire, reducing the overall number of beds that will be provided from 560 to 262.

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Cheshire and Merseyside consider merging family health support services

2011-09-20T17:02:00Z

STRUCTURE: The primary care trust cluster’s board has heard a proposal to save £1.06m by merging two shared services organisations to create a single family services agency for Cheshire and Merseyside.

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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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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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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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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.