All East of England articles – Page 110
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Mid Essex PCT leading on safeguarding hub plan
STRUCTURE: NHS Mid Essex is the lead primary care trust in a plan to create an Essex-wide hub to host designated professionals for child safeguarding.
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Luton and Dustable FT overperforming on acute contract
FINANCE: Luton and Dunstable FT is overperforming by almost £0.5m on its acute contract with NHS Luton.
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Risk of deficit at Luton PCT
FINANCE: NHS Luton has reported that the risk of it not breaking even for the year has increased.
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NHS Hertfordshire may ban surgery for smokers and the obese
PERFORMANCE: NHS Hertfordshire is considering banning patients who are obese or smokers from surgery unless they agree to treatment to change their behaviour.
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Berkshire East PCT uses reserves to ensure breakeven
FINANCE: NHS Berkshire East is forecasting that it will breakeven at the end of the year rather than a planed £17m surplus.
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NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney social enterprise gets go-ahead
STRUCTURE: NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney has announced that it has agreed to transfer its community services provider arm away from the primary care trust to a new social enterprise organisation.
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn achieves FT status
STRUCTURE: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn has been authorised as a foundation trust.
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Falls rise at Suffolk Mental Health Partnership
PERFORMANCE: Suffolk Mental Health Partnership Trust has reported a “significant rise” in patient falls in December 2010, according to its board papers.
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Savings plan shortfall in West Herfordshire Trust
FINANCE: West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust is achieving below its planned surplus because savings schemes are below the target set in its financial recovery plan.
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Basildon and Thurrock Hospitals Trust overspending
FINANCE: Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals is currently overspending by £10.3m in its contract with NHS South West Esex.
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South West Essex PCT still £11m over budget
FINANCE: The South West Essex primary care trust was still reporting a deficit at the end of 2010 of £11.4m, despite recieving £7m from the NHS East of England.
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Outpatients causing overspend at West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust
FINANCE: West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust is overperforming on its contract with NHS Hertfordshire due mainly to a £3m overspend in outpatients.
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East and North Hertfordshire Trust overspending by nearly £6m
FINANCE: East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is £5.7m over budget in its contract with its primary care trust, NHS Hertfordshire, with non-elective procedures the biggest concern.
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South East Essex PCT faces £1.3m cost pressures
FINANCE: A raised threshold for a marginal non-elective rate, demanded by the local acute trust, could lead to extra costs of £1.3m for NHS South East Essex.
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Stroke options for NHS Cambridgeshire
STRUCTURE: NHS Cambridgshire is considering options for the future of stroke care in Huntingdonshire.
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New community interest company to provide community services in North East Essex
STRUCTURE: North East Essex Provider Services has officially established a community interest company known as Anglian Community Enterprise (ACE).
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West Essex plans three consortia
STRUCTURE: NHS West Essex has three emerging commissioning consortia.
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Activity rise at North Essex mental health FT
PERFORMANCE: The mental health trust’s board heard that activity had risen by 7.7 per cent year on year to October.
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Peterborough PCT establishes GP Commissioning Board
STRUCTURE: NHS Peterborough’s board agreed on Wednesday 5 January to establish a “GP Commissioning Board” which will take the lead for commissioning specific areas covering over a third of the primary care trust’s budget.
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Bedfordshire PCT pays out almost £1m on MARS
WORKFORCE: Fifty-four members of staff at NHS Bedfordshire and its provider arm have taken up the offer of the mutually agreed resignation scheme (MARS) at a total cost of £980,000.