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North Cumbria takeover deadline pushed back to 2013-14

2012-09-11T15:05:00Z

STRUCTURE: The deadline for Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust’s planned acquisition of North Cumbria University Hospital has been pushed back by four months, into the next financial year.

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Analysed: The reorganisation of commissioning in the North East

2012-09-11T12:39:00Z

The NHS in the North East has healthy finances but an unhealthy population. This briefing looks at how its new structure could overcome these problems.

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Birmingham CCGs set to merge

2012-09-11T12:16:00Z

STRUCTURE: Two Birmingham clinical commissioning groups have “expressed a preference” for merging.

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Portsmouth Trust sacrifices finance to keep quality stable

2012-09-11T12:10:00Z

FINANCE: Portsmouth Hospitals Trust has broadly delivered on its service quality targets, at the expense of its finances, which are continuing to deteriorate.

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UHBristol sells land to Pieminister

2012-09-11T11:09:00Z

COMMERCIAL: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust has sold four acres of land to local firm Pieminister for a seven figure sum.

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Solent Trust on target for waits

2012-09-07T18:59:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Solent Trust was rated green on all but one of its waiting times targets in the first quarter of 2012-13.

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Focus on falls at Lincolnshire Trust

2012-09-07T18:38:00Z

PERFORMANCE: United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has launched a major push to prevent patients falling whilst in hospital.

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Estates arm of Guy's and St Thomas' identifies £6m in extra income

2012-09-07T18:37:00Z

COMMERCIAL: The estates and infrastructure arm of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust believes there is potentially an extra £6m in profit to be made for the trust on “higher margin traded services”.

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Monitor warns of risks to Yeovil's plans

2012-09-07T18:37:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Monitor has judged Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust is a “high risk” due to recent personnel changes and lack of financial headroom.

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Guy's and St Thomas' estate services target work in Leeds

2012-09-07T18:21:00Z

COMMERCIAL: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust is considering bidding to run the “energy performance contract” for Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and the University of Leeds.

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Solent Trust overperforms on income

2012-09-07T18:20:00Z

FINANCE: Solent Trust delivered a £5,000 surplus in June, keeping in line with its financial plan of £11,000 in the black for the year.

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Pensioner jailed over chief executive harassment

2012-09-07T18:19:00Z

A 74-year-old woman who harassed a hospital chief executive and turned up at a doctor’s house with a meat hammer has been jailed for four weeks.

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Guy's and St Thomas' tightens procedure for 'ethical' donations

2012-09-07T18:14:00Z

STRUCTURE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust has drawn up a memorandum of understanding “regulating the types of contributions it was appropriate to accept or refuse on proper ethical grounds, as a result of fundraising across King’s Health Partners.”

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Epsom and St Helier misses emergency readmission target

2012-09-07T18:13:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust is breaching the emergency readmission to A&E target, with a rate of 7.3 per cent againt an organisational target of 5.8 per cent.

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Epsom and St Helier finance ahead of plan

2012-09-07T18:12:00Z

FINANCE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust is ahead on its financial plan by £429,000, its July finance report reveals, but the trust is still predicting a year-end deficit of £19.4m.

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Proposal to centralise pathology at St George's

2012-09-07T18:11:00Z

STRUCTURE: The London review of pathology services has proposed centralising pathology in south west London at St George’s Hospital.

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Heatherwood and Wexham Park finances off target

2012-09-07T18:06:00Z

FINANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust reported an adverse financial position of £351,000 in the year to June.

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Leicester Hospitals defends high number of complaints

2012-09-07T18:05:00Z

PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of Leicester has received the highest number of complaints of all trusts in the East Midlands.

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Guy's and St Thomas' has nursing shortfall of 111

2012-09-07T18:03:00Z

WORKFORCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust has a shortfall of 111 nurses, a report reveals

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Guy's and St Thomas' A&E software fails

2012-09-07T18:03:00Z

PEFORMANCE: Symphony, the IT system used in Guy’s and St Thomas’ A&E, stopped sending follow-up letters to GPs, board papers reveal.