All WARRINGTON PCT articles – Page 2

HSJ Local

Arrests at Warrington and Halton Hospitals rose 68 per cent in 2010-11

2011-06-27T18:06:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Police made 37 arrests on the foundation trust’s sites in 2010-11, up 68 per cent on the 22 recorded the previous year, board papers show.

HSJ Local

Warrington and Halton Hospitals seeks to plug £12.7m gap in savings plan

2011-06-27T17:28:00Z

FINANCE: The foundation trust was forecasting a £2.6m shortfall on its £12.7m cost improvement programme for 2011-12, before the use of contingency reserves, its 30 April board papers show.

HSJ Local

NHS Warrington turned finances around in final months of 2010-11

2011-06-06T17:18:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust will deliver its target surplus of £250,000 for 2010-11, despite having run at a deficit for 10 months of the year, according to its May finance report.

HSJ Local

Fifth MRSA case reported at Warrington and Halton Hospitals

2011-06-02T18:48:00Z

PERFORMANCE: A fifth case of MRSA was reported at the foundation in February, pushing it over its commissioner-set target of four cases or less in 2010-11.

HSJ Local

NHS Warrington chief plans power handover to GPs

2011-02-25T18:40:00Z

STRUCTURE: The primary care trust’s chief executive has unveiled plans to hand responsibility for commissioning secondary and community health care services to an emergent GP consortium.

HSJ Local

5 Boroughs chief exec warns white paper has robbed his area of strong PCT leadership

2011-02-10T00:00:00Z

STRUCTURE: The foundation’s chief executive warned his board that all of their commissioners were lacking ‘substantive leadership’ as a result of the Liberating the NHS white paper.

HSJ Local

NHS Warrington in-year deficit rose to £1.8m by end of November

2011-02-08T14:57:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust’s in-year deficit rose £336,000 over the course of November to £1.819m, a January report to its board of directors shows.

HSJ Local

Warrington consortium to take duties from April

2011-02-01T13:44:00Z

STRUCTURE: One commissioning consortium is being established covering all NHS Warrington practices.

News

PCT flouts NICE by suspending IVF treatment

2010-09-01T10:33:00Z

A primary care trust in Cheshire has stopped funding in vitro fertilisation services in a cost cutting move that challenges national guidance.

Comment

Andy McKeon: NHS cash alone won’t end health inequalities

2010-03-11T00:00:00Z

One strategy every six months under Labour has failed to produce results for children under five

HSJ Knowledge

GP phone-line jams create more hospital admissions

2009-06-12T00:00:00Z

Few things are more frustrating than an automated message saying your phone call is in a queue and will be answered shortly -or just getting the engaged tone. When you are ill, it can be rather more than just one of life’s little irritations, writes Kaye McIntosh.