FINANCE: NHS Suffolk is £0.5m underspent on plan for the year to date and has £2.2m in unallocated contingency funds. It is aiming to make a £1.1m surplus.
One area of overspend is prison healthcare - where £100,000 of a £500,000 overspent is due to escort and bedwatch costs for one prisoner being treated at West Suffolk Hospital.
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An integrated care board and technology supplier have agreed to settle a legal dispute just minutes before the trial was due to start in the High Court in London.
A major acute trust has been warned by the Care Quality Commission about a “long-term history of poor culture” in one of its departments.
The first integrated care boards have announced they will share the same CEO and chair, an arrangement likely to spread to many others as part of a major restructure.
The dentists union has called for an investigation into the funding of a new healthcare provider, which is chaired by NHS England’s chief dental officer for England.
A £440m community services contract was due to be handed over to a new provider alliance this month, but the partners have failed to agree contractual terms and predicted it could take a further 18 months to do so.
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