All HSJ Local articles – Page 450
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Commissioners forecast around £2.7m overspend on Lancs Teaching Hospitals
FINANCE: Four of the five Lancashire primary care trusts were forecasting year end overspends in excess of £400,000 with the foundation at the end of September, their cluster’s latest finance report shows.
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'Dramatic improvement' in A&E admission times at Leicester
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of Leicester Trust has seen a “dramatic improvement” in the time taken to admit emergency patients.
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Leicester let off readmissions penalties worth £7.5m
FINANCE: Commissioners have reduced an £11m penalty for emergency readmissions at University Hospitals of Leicester Trust to just £3.5m.
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Heatherwood and Wexham Park rewrites CIP plan
Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Foundation Trust is rewriting its cost improvement plan after reforecasting its finances for 2011-12.
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A&E performance "fragile" at Heatherwood FT
PERFORMANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust achieved its four-hour accident and emergency target in November, but performance in the department remains “fragile”.
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Lewisham Healthcare Trust releases reserves to cover CIP gap
FINANCE: The south London integrated care trust has delivered £7.7m of its £8.4m cost improvement programme, its latest finance report said.
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Lewisham Healthcare Trust to take over eight PCT properties
STRUCTURE: The south London trust will take over eight properties from the south east London cluster of primary care trusts under the Transforming Communtiy Services framework.
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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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DH wins right to appeal Royal Brompton judicial review decision
STRUCTURE: The joint council of primary care trusts, set up by the Department of Health to review paediatric surgery, has won the right to appeal a judge’s decision that its consultation last year was unlawful.
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Sheffield pioneers community and mental health user experience plan
PERFORMANCE: Sheffield Health and Social Care Foundation Trust is planning to establish a service user experience monitoring unit, under which ex-service users will interview current service users.
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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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Dorset cluster running out of staff
WORKFORCE: The Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset primary care trust cluster has warned there may not be enough staff left working in the PCTs to meet the requirements for the clinical commissioning group.
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Maternity consultation nears end in east Kent
STRUCTURE: A “last call” for the public to have their say on the future of maternity services has been issued by the NHS Kent and Medway PCT cluster.
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New chief exec appointed by KMPT
WORKFORCE: Angela McNab has been appointed as the new chief executive of Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.
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250 Pennine Acute ‘backlog’ patients transferred to private sector
PERFORMANCE: 250 of the trust’s patients will be transferred to the private sector in an effort to improve waiting times at Pennine Acute, one of its commissioners has reported.
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Heatherwood trust restructures executive committees
STRUCTURE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust is to restructured its executive committees in an attempt to strengthen accountability for financial and service performance.
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Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale seeks out uses for £1.7m underspend
FINANCE: At the end of October 2011 the primary care trust had under-spent its budget to the value of £1.7m, according to its latest finance report.
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CQC lifts concerns over Heatherwood trust
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission is to remove compliance actions from Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Foundation Trust following an unannounced inspection.
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Royal Bournemouth over performance 'biggest single risk' to PCT finances
FINANCE: Over performance at Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospital Foundation Trust is the biggest risk to finances of its primary care trust cluster.
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Heatherwood FT runs at £1.3m deficit in November
FINANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Foundation Trust ran at a £1.3m deficit in November, latest figures show.