Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust – Page 26
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Waiting times at Central Manchester FT ‘more challenging’ than other trusts
PERFORMANCE: Efforts to improve waiting times in Greater Manchester are proving “more challenging” at the foundation than at the city’s other underperforming providers, commissioners have reported.
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Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust appoints new medical director
WORKFORCE: Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust has announced the appointment of Dr Sally Bradley as its new medical director.
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NAO to probe Pennine Acute FT bid
STRUCTURE: The trust is one of two in the North West to be visited by the National Audit Office for its research on the challenges to achieving foundation trust status, according to a report to the region’s strategic health authority.
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NewsMaidstone and Barts have most mixed sex breaches
Mixed sex accommodation breaches have reached their lowest level since the collection of monthly data, but 30 per cent of acute trusts are still failing to comply.
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District general hospital selects FT as takeover partner
STRUCTURE: Trafford Healthcare Trust, with a turnover of £96m, has selected a takeover partner from bids submitted by two nearby foundation trusts.
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CommentOne in five organisations who failed April waiting times targets are in North West
A few days after NHS deputy chief executive David Flory issued a curt letter warning the health service not to allow any further failures to hit waiting time targets, an NHS North West board meeting considered the problem.
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North West trusts 31 per cent behind on savings plans at the end of May
FINANCE: NHS trusts in the region had collectively fallen £7.4m behind on their cost improvement programme savings plans at the end of the second month of 2011-12, strategic health authority board papers show.
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CommentThe North West's performance problems
A few days after NHS deputy chief executive David Flory issued a curt letter warning the health service not to allow any further failures to hit waiting times targets, an NHS North West board meeting considered its own share of the problem.
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North Manchester General passes CQC inspection
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was meeting standards relating to dignity and nutrition during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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NewsNHS medical director: technology like international consultations will transform service
The NHS should increase the use of technology to transform services - for example through patients accessing primary diagnostic services from overseas over the internet, the NHS medical director has said. Technology should also reduce costs, he said.
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Pennine Acute categorised as “high risk plus” in NHS North West foundation trust pipeline report
STRUCTURE: The trust is one of four categorised as “high risk plus” in NHS North West’s latest update on the progress towards foundation trust status of the non-FTs in its patch.
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Spending on private providers blows NHS Oldham’s acute budget by £5m
FINANCE: The primary care trust’s acute care budget was blown by £5.5m in 2010-11, due mainly to overspending on private providers.
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18 week waiting target breached at Pennine Acute
PERFORMANCE: The trust breached its key Care Quality Commission waiting target in 2010-11, a review of its performance against business plan shows.
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Two women die after Royal Oldham A&E wait
PERFORMANCE: Two women died after they had to be treated in ambulances outside a hospital because its A&E unit was full.
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NewsCQC boss set to warn DH over GP registration
The Care Quality Commission could ask the government to reduce its remit if it finds it cannot cope with registering all of the country’s GPs and dentists, the regulator’s chief executive has admitted.
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Loss of maternity services could harm Salford Royal death rate stats
PERFORMANCE: The loss of its maternity services, moves to reduce short-stay admissions and the introduction of a new national mortality indicator could push up the foundation trust’s recorded death rates, board papers have warned.
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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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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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NHS Bury still £1.7m overspent one month before financial year end
FINANCE: At the end of February the primary care trust was reporting an in-year deficit of £1.7m, a full £1.9m above its planned expenditure to that point.