Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust – Page 26
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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.
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Pennine Acute expects 'significant' decommissioning from Manchester and Oldham this year
FINANCE: The trust expects Manchester and Oldham primary care trusts to decommission “significant” amounts of activity at the trust, a report on its 2011 budget book states.
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Competition panel okays seven provider trusts to run GPs
STRUCTURE: The Cooperation and Competition Panel has approved seven acute and mental health providers to take over GP practices, but says Monitor should review the arrangements in the future.
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NHS Bury lifts IVF ban, despite continued overspending
FINANCE: A financially challenged primary care trust has lifted the bar it placed on IVF services, despite continuing to overspend at a rate of £600,000 a month.
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Pennine Acute closes Rochdale A&E
STRUCTURE: Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust will close the Rochdale Infirmary A&E, and open an urgent care centre in replacement, on 4 April.
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Pennine acute misses 12 out of 65 performance targets
PERFORMANCE: The trust was failing against three national targets and nine local targets at the end of January, its latest “scorecard” shows.