All BOLTON PCT articles – Page 2
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NHS Bolton secures £150,000 to help clear dental waiting lists
FINANCE: The primary care trust has secured £150,000 to help clear 2,000 patients from the waiting list for NHS dentistry, according to its latest performance report.
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PCT expects further poor waiting times figures from Royal Bolton
PERFORMANCE: NHS Bolton is forecasting that when the foundation publishes its waiting times for admitted patients treated in October they will push the commissioner’s figures below the threshold standard.
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Two Bolton emerging CCGs become one
STRUCTURE: All GP practices in Bolton are now part of a single emerging clinical commissioning group, Bolton Health Consortium.
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Rise in child TB across Greater Manchester
PERFORMANCE: A rise in child TB cases has led to a renewed emphasis on the disease by Greater Manchester PCTs.
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Just two Greater Manchester PCTs fall behind financial plans
FINANCE: PCTs across Greater Manchester are making reasonable progress towards their year-end financial targets with just two areas - NHS Bolton and NHS Oldham - behind plan.
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AQP areas announced in Manchester
FINANCE: Greater Manchester PCTs have identified podiatry and diagnostics as priorities for introducing any qualified provider.
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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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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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NHS Bolton invokes 'contractual penalties' over foundation trust’s waiting times
PERFORMANCE: The primary care trust has told the Royal Bolton Hospital Foundation Trust that it will face contractual penalties for failing to achieve waiting time targets in August.
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Unplanned A&E re-attendance remains above target in Bolton
PERFORMANCE: The rate of unplanned re-attendance at accident and emergency departments for NHS Bolton’s patients remained above the national limit for the fifth consecutive month in August, its latest performance report shows.
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CommentChange plans grind to a halt in the North West
Change takes forever in the NHS. So long, sometimes, that by the time your plan is finally agreed it is out of date, or there are different people in charge and they want to develop a new plan.
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NHS Bolton forecasts potential £2.3m savings shortfall
FINANCE: The primary care trust was forecasting a potential £2.3m “under-delivery” of its planned £9.3m cost improvement programme savings for 2011-12, its August finance report shows.
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NHS Bolton asked to call halt to planned development of six health centres
FINANCE: The primary care trust’s board will this week be asked to back proposals to call a halt to its plans to build 10 new health centres across the area.
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Bolton GP commissioners forecast to overspend delegated budgets by £1.4m
FINANCE: The area’s clinical commissioners are forecast to overspend their delegated budgets by £1.4m this year, the primary care trust’s latest finance report shows.
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Bolton spent slightly more than planned at end of May
FINANCE: NHS Bolton was under spent by £79,000 in the first two months of the financial year rather than the planned underspend of £96,000.
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Royal Bolton threatened over dip in waiting times performance
PERFORMANCE: NHS Bolton is threatening Royal Bolton Hospital with financial penalties if it does not hit referral-to-treatment times.
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Patients back Bolton walk-in centre
PERFORMANCE: A walk-in centre whose future was in doubt has been given a glowing report by patients, NHS Bolton’s board heard.
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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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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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Half of the capital's A&E attendances unnecessary, report suggests
PERFORMANCE: An NHS London report on general practice in the capital said 1.75 million A&E attendances could be avoided if primary care was more accessible.
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