All SALFORD PCT articles – Page 2
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HSJ Local
Greater Manchester lacks capacity to cope with disease outbreak
PERFORMANCE: Infection control teams in Greater Manchester PCTs would struggle to cope with disease outbreaks over the winter months, the area’s cluster board heard.
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HSJ Local
Manchester PCTs poised to award home oxygen contract
FINANCE: PCTs across the North West are being recommended to approve a contract for Air Liquide (Homecare) Ltd to provide home oxygen services across the region.
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HSJ Local
Salford practice excluded by CCG for overspend is set to rejoin
STRUCTURE: A GP practice that was excluded from the Salford clinical commissioning group for overspending is likely to rejoin in coming months, the group’s chair has said.
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HSJ Local
MRSA incidence 'over trajectory' at Salford Royal
PERFORMANCE: The number of MRSA cases at Salford Royal Foundation Trust is “over trajectory” on meeting its target limit for 2011-12, NHS Salford board papers state.
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HSJ Local
NHS Salford aims high for flu vaccine uptake
PERFORMANCE: The primary care trust aims to ensure that more than three quarters of “at risk” under 65 year olds receive the flu vaccine this year, board papers state.
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HSJ LocalManchester fires starting gun on major reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: Primary care trusts across greater Manchester have agreed to pool resources worth tens of millions of pounds a year to fund a major reconfiguration of the city’s planned and emergency hospital services.
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HSJ LocalManchester cancer waits see 'little improvement' since tsar's report
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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HSJ Local
67 mixed sex accommodation breaches in three months at Salford Royal
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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HSJ Local
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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HSJ Local
More than 800 NHS Greater Manchester patients in Southern Cross homes
FINANCE: NHS Greater Manchester either fully or partially funds 838 patients staying in homes run by collapsed care home operator Southern Cross, board papers show.
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HSJ Local
Greater Manchester cluster considers plan to halve number of local boards
STRUCTURE: The cluster will this week consider plans to collapse the number of “locality boards” representing its member primary care trusts from 10 to five.
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CommentA daunting savings picture emerges in North West
As heavy as it is, there is little doubt that the burden of delivering the NHS’s £20bn savings target rests more heavily on the shoulders of some than others. Specifically, it rests heaviest on London and Manchester.
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HSJ Local
Greater Manchester unveils plans to meet £400m savings target
FINANCE: Greater Manchester is to appoint a single office to take the reins of the £400m savings programme that must be delivered by its commissioners by 2015.
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HSJ Local
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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HSJ Local
NHS Manchester plans for £1m surplus on £1.03bn turnover
FINANCE: The primary care trust is planning to underspend its £1,033m allocation for 2011-12 by just £1m, NHS North West board papers report.
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HSJ Local
Salford boss to take top job at greater Manchester cluster
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust’s chief executive, Mike Burrows, will take the CEO role at the Greater Manchester PCT cluster.
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HSJ Local
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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HSJ Local
NW commissioners to pool buying power for continuing care
COMMERCIAL: Primary care trusts in the North West are close to concluding a framework agreement which will establish a single list of approved continuing healthcare providers for the region..
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NewsMidwife-led units threatened by falling birth rates
Standalone midwife-led centres are under threat from high costs and falling numbers of deliveries, HSJ can exclusively reveal.
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HSJ Local
Four overdue patient safety alerts at UH Morecambe Bay
PERFORMANCE: In February the foundation trust was non-compliant with four national patient safety alerts past the deadline for their completion, new data shows.
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