All PCTs articles – Page 8
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HSJ Local
Virgin community services deal confirmed
COMMERCIAL: Virgin Care (formerly Assura Medical) has now signed a contract with NHS Surrey to deliver community services across much of the county from 2012 to 2017.
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NewsPenalise poor performers 'robustly', Flory demands
The NHS’s deputy chief executive has used his latest quarterly report to direct the health service to “robustly bear down” on “persistent poor performer” organisations.
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HSJ Local
SHIP CSS to take more than 350 staff from PCT cluster
WORKFORCE: Commissioning Support South, the commissioning support organisation for the Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth cluster, is expected to inherit 363 staff members from primary care trusts.
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NewsIncrease in patient liberty restrictions - CQC
There has been a rise in the number of approvals for measures that allow hospital and care home staff to deprive people of their liberty.
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HSJ Local
West Yorkshire cluster gets new finance director
WORKFORCE: Ian Currell has been appointed as Cluster Director of Finance and will take up his post during April 2012.
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HSJ Local
Yorkshire chief executive takes over additional PCT cluster
WORKFORCE: Christopher Long, chief executive of the Humber PCT cluster, has additionally become chief executive of NHS North Yorkshire and York from next month.
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NewsCQC criticises service delays for disabled
Disabled children and their families sometimes wait for up to a year for aids such as wheelchairs, according to the health regulator.
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Exclusive: government confirms strict new terms for FT property transfers
“Onerous” terms are being imposed on foundation trusts looking to take ownership of the community service estate, according to the latest proposals.
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HSJ Local
Go ahead for Middlesbrough neuro centre
STRUCTURE: Planning permission has been granted for a new centre for the support and rehabilitation of people with long term neurological conditions in Middlesbrough.
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HSJ Local
Work begins on Morpeth health centre
STRUCTURE: Work has begun on an £18m health centre in Morpeth, to house two existing GP practices.
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NewsWide variations in children's care across England
NHS care for children varies starkly depending on where families live, a new report suggests.
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NewsVoluntary redundancies dominate PCT pay-offs
Two thirds of the cost of paying off primary care trust managers to make early financial savings went on allowing them to retire early or volunteer to leave the NHS.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: do not underestimate CCG support organisations
Could we see CSSs regulate CCGs?
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NewsPCTs must not focus on ‘fantastic’ pasts
Handover documents produced by primary care trusts have focused too much on past achievements and not enough on concerns for the future, the official overseeing the transition to the new commissioning system has told HSJ.
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NewsExclusive: commissioning support development falls to PCT staff
Primary care trust directors and junior staff are leading the development of commissioning support services in many areas.
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NewsExclusive: many experienced commissioners predicted to leave
A significant number of the most senior primary care trust leaders will not join the NHS Commissioning Board, HSJ has been told.
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LeaderExperienced GPs and managers can give CCGs the best start
Commissioning will, at first, need experience at the helm.
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NewsNational NHS surplus rises by £329m
The NHS is on course to finish the year with a surplus of more than £1.5bn - £300m more than originally planned - HSJ can reveal.
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PCT chair to stand down
WORKFORCE: The chair of NHS Bath and North East Somerset is to stand down at the end of the month when the primary care trust board finally merges with NHS Wiltshire.
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HSJ Local
Branch surgery at risk in Norfolk
STRUCTURE: NHS Norfolk and Waveney is talking to different healthcare providers about keeping a surgery in New Costessey, four miles outside Norwich, open.