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Analysed: reconfiguration planned for Merseyside vascular services
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of key issues facing some of the major NHS health economies. This week’s HSJ Local Briefing looks at proposals to reconfigure vascular services in Cheshire, Warrington and the Wirral.
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HSJ LocalControversial vascular services restructure gets green light
Primary care trust cluster NHS Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral has approved a controversial plan for the reconfiguration of vascular services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
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GP commissioners detail plan for monitoring CWP serious incident response
PERFORMANCE: Wirral GP Commissioning Consortium has put in place arrangements for monitoring the trust’s response to a serious untoward incident in which a patient murdered his sister’s boyfriend.
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Commissioners back trust's FT bid despite previous concerns
STRUCTURE: East Cheshire Trust has secured its commissioners’ backing to make a bid for foundation trust status, just months after they expressed doubts about its survival as an independent organisation.
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Dalton letter: Cluster chief raised doubts about East Cheshire FT bid
STRUCTURE: Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral primary care trusts’ chief executive warned in January that she was “not convinced” the PCT cluster should support the trust’s bid for foundation status.
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Exclusive: national commissioning leads CCG to merge
STRUCTURE: GPs in the Wirral have agreed to merge their three proposed commissioning groups into one, after the strategic health authority said they were too small and would not be authorised.
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Wirral FT analyses steep decline in waiting list performance
PERFORMANCE: A new report by the trust lists confusion caused by a new patient administration system and commissioner refusal to pay for additional activity among the causes of its steep decline in waiting list performance.
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CWP met with Monitor over governance red rating
PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust was asked to meet with Monitor on 13 December to “consider whether the trust is in significant breach of its terms of authorisation”, according to newly published board minutes.
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Wirral FT receiving ‘intensive support’ for waiting times problems
PERFORMANCE: The trust is working with the Department of Health’s intensive support team on a revised plan to tackle its waiting times problems, NHS North of England’s latest performance report states.
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Fourteen CCGs in North of England have structure problem
STRUCTURE: NHS North of England has highlighted problems with the structure of 14 prospective clinical commissioning groups in the patch, including one in Wirral of which prominent GP commissioner James Kingsland is a member.
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Wirral among worst in country for referral to treatment times – DH report
PERFORMANCE: The trust was among the 10 worst in the country on referral-to-treatment waiting times in September, according to the Department of Health’s latest quarterly report.
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Wirral Teaching Hospital October admitted RTT performance lowest in region
PERFORMANCE: Just 79 per cent of the foundation’s admitted patients completed in October were treated within 18 weeks, against a national target of 90 per cent, latest Department of Health figures show.
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Psychological therapies and diagnostics to be opened to any qualified provider in Cheshire
STRUCTURE: Psychological therapies, diagnostics and continence services will be opened up to competition from any qualified provider by NHS Central and Eastern Cheshire in 2012, according to a new “AQP map” published by the Department of Health.
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NHS Wirral announces first ever private maternity deal
COMMERCIAL: A primary care trust has become the first in the country to sign a contract with a private company to provide maternity care.
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More funding pledged to help oncology centre across the Mersey
STRUCTURE: Commissioners in Merseyside have pledged £6.5m a year towards a proposed relocation to central Liverpool of the Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology Foundation Trust’s main facility.
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Wirral University Teaching Hospital breaching 18-week target
PERFORMANCE: The 18 week referral to treatment target is continuing to be breached in the Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral PCT cluster with particular problems at the Wirral University Teaching Hospital Trust.
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Surplus of £9m forecast by Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral cluster
FINANCE: The Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral PCT cluster is forecasting a surplus of £9m for the year with QIPP savings on target at £24m in the first five months of the year, the board heard.
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East Cheshire CCG awards non-obstetric ultrasound tender
FINANCE: The East Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group has completed a tender process for direct access non-obstetric ultrasound, Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral cluster board heard.
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Wirral end-of-life care project highlights training needs
WORKFORCE: An audit of the knowledge of staff taking part in an end-of-life care project at the foundation has revealed “significant gaps in staff knowledge associated with advanced care planning, prognostication and preferred patient choice”, a report to its latest board shows.
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'No conflict' in contract awarded to private company associated with commissioners
COMMERCIAL: A clinical commissioning group in the Wirral has awarded a place on a register of “any qualified providers” to a private company associated with most of the GP practices on the group’s board.
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