All HSJ Local articles – Page 303
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SHIP cluster to save £10m through medicines management
FINANCE: The Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth primary care trust cluster expects to save £10.2m through medicines management this year.
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£425m Royal Liverpool hospital PFI decision ‘weeks away’
COMMERCIAL: The Department of Health is “weeks away” from a long-awaited announcement on the £425 million Royal Liverpool Hospital project, it has told HSJ’s sister title Construction News.
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Bradford and Airedale overspending on acute by £4.3m
FINANCE: Bradford and Airedale PCT’s two main provider contracts are overtrading by a total of £4.3m, but it is on track to meet its financial plan.
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Mid Staffs worker suspended over photos
A worker at Stafford Hospital has been suspended after taking photographs of patients in breach of staff guidelines.
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Full authorisation for Bradford Districts CCG
STRUCTURE: Bradford Districts CCG has been authorised with no conditions in the second wave of CCG authorisation decisions by the NHS Commissioning Board.
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High sickness rates at North Somerset Community Partnership
WORKFORCE: High sickness levels at North Somerset Community Partnership are causing concern for commissioners who fear it could be due to understaffing.
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Avon cancer network winding up
STRUCTURE: The Avon, Somerset and Wiltshire Cancer Service Network has stopped providing monthly performance reports to primary care trusts but is unable to release funding back to the PCT to carry on the work.
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Northumbria nurse given Queen's award
WORKFORCE: A community nurse in Northumberland and North Tyneside has been given the Queen’s Nurse title after being nominated by a patient.
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North East GPs 'prescribe paracetamol at more than twice expected rate'
FINANCE: GPs in seven North East primary care trusts are prescribing paracetamol at twice the expected rate and could save the NHS an estimated £2.5m a year by their bringing reducing to the national average, the healthcare analysis firm CHKS has said.
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Colin Renwick named GP chair of Airedale, Wharfedale & Craven CCG
STRUCTURE: Dr Colin Renwick has been named GP chair of Airedale, Wharfedale & Craven CCG.
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Airedale struggling with four hour waiting target
PERFORMANCE: Airedale Foundation Trust failed the four hour waiting target for Quarter 3, commissioner papers say.
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Guys & St Thomas' missing A&E target for Q4
PERFORMANCE: Guys & St Thomas’ Foundation Trust is narrowly missing the A&E four-hour wait target of 95 per cent for quarter four, a report reveals.
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Bristol CCGs plan new urology service
COMMERCIAL: The contract for community urology services in Bristol is to be extended on a three month rolling basis while commissioniners finalise plans for a cluster wide service.
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London Ambulance Service Trust performance buckles in December
PERFORMANCE: London Ambulance Service Trust missed response and handover time targets in December, board papers reveal.
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Five per cent rise in healthcare assistants in London hospitals
WORKFORCE: Londoon’s acute trusts saw a 5.7 per cent rise in the number of healthcare assistants they employed from 2010-11 to 2011-12.
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Epsom and St Helier Hospitals on course to meet A&E target
PERFORMANCE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust is at 97.2 per cent on the four-hour A&E target, on-track to meet national targets.
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Protest against trust's plans to cut £24m
Around 70 Unison members, clerical and administration staff, protested outside Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust’s headquarters in Wakefield against proposed cuts to job losses and pay cuts.
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Staffing crisis prompts transfer of troubled maternity unit
WORKFORCE: The troubled Furness General Hospital’s consultant-led maternity services are to be temporarily moved to a neighbouring county in a bid to avert potentially dangerous levels of understaffing.
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Ashford and St Peter’s has HSMR of 103
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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East Sussex has HSMR of 101
PERFORMANCE: East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust performed slightly below expected for patient mortality rates, according to this year’s Dr Foster “hospital guide”.