All Reconfiguration articles – Page 66
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NewsKent PCT cluster appoints future chief exec
A chief executive has been appointed to lead the cluster of primary care trusts due to form in Kent.
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CommentSuccessful healthcare mergers, like marriages, need a lot of hard work
Mergers and acquisitions of healthcare organisations in the developed world have become much more commonplace over the last decade.
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Scarborough and North East Yorkshire in vascular shakeup
ORGANISATION: Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Trust would be largely restricted to outpatient and daycase vascular surgery under reconfiguration proposals.
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York Hospital in regional vascular shakeup
STRUCTURE: A consultation on vascular services would see the service at York Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust co-operate with that at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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Brighton and Hove PCT likely to cluster with rest of Sussex
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust looks set to cluster with other trusts in Sussex as part of plans being drawn up by NHS South East Coast.
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Public petition against closure of West Kent PCT-run GP surgery
STRUCTURE: More than 500 people have signed a petition against the closure of a GP practice run by the primary care trust.
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Medway PCT likely to cluster with rest of Kent
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust looks set to cluster with other trusts in Kent as part of plans being drawn up by NHS South East Coast.
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East Sussex PCT likely to cluster with rest of county
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust looks set to cluster with other trusts in Sussex, including Brighton, as part of plans being drawn up by NHS South East Coast.
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Eastern Kent PCT likely to cluster with rest of county
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust looks set to cluster with other trusts in Kent as part of plans being drawn up by NHS South East Coast.
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West Sussex PCT likely to cluster with rest of county
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust looks set to cluster with other trusts in Sussex, including Brighton, as part of plans being drawn up by NHS South East Coast.
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NHS Surrey likely to form cluster of its own
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust, one of the largest in the country, looks set to form a cluster by itself as part of plans being drawn up by NHS South East Coast.
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NewsThe provider's essential guide to the Health Bill
As with commissioning consortia, the bill presented providers with a mixture of new freedoms and potential restraints.
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West Kent PCT likely to cluster with rest of county
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust looks set to cluster with other trusts in Kent as part of plans being drawn up by NHS South East Coast.
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Comment
The NHS Commissioning Board: biggest of the big spenders
The NHS Commissioning Board’s greatest influence on quality will be through how it splashes its cash
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NewsLast of London's contentious reconfigurations set to be approved
The last of the capital’s contentious hospital reconfiguration plans is due to be approved by its strategic health authority next week.
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NewsTrusts battle for right to absorb smaller non-FTs
Two London hospital trusts, one of which is struggling with a large private finance initiative, are competing to swallow up two smaller trusts.
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NewsTribunal to have responsibility for settling disputes over protected services
A tribunal will be set up to adjudicate when a provider wants to remove a “designated service” status granted by Monitor.
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NewsAudit Commission issues public interest report on struggling acute trust
The Audit Commission today issued a public interest report declaring an acute trust had “failed to meet its statutory financial duty” to break even over the five-year period ending last March.
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NewsTrust in breach of six CQC standards
One of the Department of Health’s seven “financially challenged” trusts has been found in breach of standards in six separate areas by the Care Quality Commission.
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News'Direct management' of under-par consortia an option, says Nicholson
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has set out the measures he anticipates using on commissioning consortia that are not competent by the go-live date.