All BURY 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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NewsMost commissioners see readmissions rate rise despite harsh penalties
Most commissioners have seen an increase in emergency readmission rates despite the imposition of new penalties that are set to cost providers more than £400m this year, an HSJ investigation has found.
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HSJ Local
Bury ‘patients champion’ charged with £60,000 fraud
WORKFORCE: A “patients champion” and former chair of Bury’s local involvement network has been charged with committing £60,000 of VAT fraud, in the course of half a decade of paid consultancy work for the NHS.
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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 Local
NHS Bury back in surplus
FINANCE: The primary care trust’s in-year finances were back in the black in July after it received a “non-recurrent financial allocation” to cover the restructuring costs of its £25m savings plan.
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HSJ Local
Chair appointed for Bury’s shadow clinical commissioning group
STRUCTURE: Dr Kiran Patel, a local GP, has been appointed to the role of chair and clinical lead of Bury’s shadow Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).
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HSJ Local
NHS Bury deficit rose to £1.7m by end of June
FINANCE: The primary care trust was £1.7m in deficit at the end of June 2011, against plans to have made a surplus of £63,000 by that point in the financial year.
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HSJ Local
Bury secondary care budget £1m overspent at end of May
FINANCE: Bury PCT overspent on secondary care by nearly £1m by the end of May, with an overspend on continuing care posing a significant financial risk, finance director Stuart North reported.
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HSJ Local
Bury rules out plans for a standalone midwife unit
STRUCTURE: NHS Bury has decided not to commission a standalone midwife-led unit after hearing staffing it round-the-clock would cost between £450,000 and £700,000 above tariff.
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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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HSJ Local
Bury LINk website to allow patients to give anonymous reviews of NHS services
PERFORMANCE: Bury’s local involvement network is to launch an un-moderated website to allow patients to anonymously rate their experiences of health and social care providers.
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HSJ Local
Man pleads guilty to NHS Bury data breach
STRUCTURE: A man has pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining patient information from two walk-in centres run by NHS Bury.
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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
NHS Bury still £1.7m overspent one month before financial year end
FINANCE: At the end of February the primary care trust was reporting an in-year deficit of £1.7m, a full £1.9m above its planned expenditure to that point.
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NewsPennine Care's pull-out is 'nail in the coffin' of NPfIT
Pennine Care’s decision to pull out of the National Programme for IT is another “nail in the coffin” for the troubled project, it has been claimed.
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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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NewsPennine Care pulls out of NPfIT
The mental health trust lined up to lead the way in adopting National Programme for IT software has pulled out of the programme after failing to go live almost two years after its due date.
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HSJ Local
NHS Bury lifts IVF ban, despite continued overspending
FINANCE: A financially challenged primary care trust has lifted the bar it placed on IVF services, despite continuing to overspend at a rate of £600,000 a month.
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