All HSJ Local articles – Page 548
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Southampton PCT identifies reforms pace as 'catastrophic risk'
PERFORMANCE: NHS Southampton City has said the rapid structural reforms to the NHS reforms could distract from improving the population’s health, while the area’s health economy risks being unsustainable in the long term.
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Official opening for new mental health unit at Pennine Care
STRUCTURE: The trust has officially opened a £13.6m mental health unit at its Birch Hill Hospital site in Rochdale.
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Results of Western Sussex reconfiguration consultation due next month
STRUCTURE: Responses to a consultation over the planned reconfiguration of ophthalmology and orthopaedic services are currently being analysed, with results expected next month.
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Former PCT chair joins Poole Hospital FT
WORKFORCE: Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has announced Angela Schofield as its new chair, replacing interim Dame Yvonne Moores.
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Leeds Hospitals exceeds surplus plan
FINANCE: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust exceeded its planned surplus in 2010-11 by £2.1m.
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South coast cluster reveals key appointments
WORKFORCE: The primary care trust cluster covering Southampton, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth has annouced two key board-level appointments.
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York Hospitals was running behind plan on surplus
FINANCE: York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been running behind its planned surplus at the end of the last financial year, recording £0.94m in March compared to the £3.2m expected.
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Great Ormond Street bowel unit to ease child surgery
STRUCTURE: Sick children will be spared unnecessary surgery as a result of a new initiative which will also save the health service money.
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South West London PCT cluster spent £6.7m on redundancies
WORKFORCE: Primary care trusts comprising the South West London cluster spent £6.7m on redundancies in the last financial year.
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'Challenging' timetable for Bath and North East Somerset
STRUCTURE: NHS Bath and North East Somerset is anticipating a “challenging” few months as it establishes a social enterprise for its community services.
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Moorfields selected to provide community opthamology services in SW London
STRUCTURE: The specialist trust has been chosen by commissioners to provide community eye services working out of its Queen Mary’s Roehampton and Teddington Memorial Hospital.
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Liverpool Women's seeks to form national alliance to lobby for maternity care providers
FINANCE: The foundation has written to the chief executives of all trusts delivering 5,000 or more children a year to consider forming a “national alliance”, as part of its effort to lobby against changes to the maternity tariff.
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New software gives UHB access to data from other trusts
COMMERCIAL: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust has implemented new software providing secure access to patient data from neighbouring trusts.
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Winchester and Eastleigh risks missing £9.4m savings target
FINANCE: Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust has red-rated its £9.4m service improvement target for 2011-12, having only finished last year in the black thanks to a strategic health authority bail-out.
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Capita set to take on HR for Liverpool trusts in £27m deal
COMMERCIAL: Outsourcing firm Capita Group has announced it has been appointed as preferred provider of human resources, payroll, and recruitment services for up to 12 NHS organisations in north Mersey.
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NHS Wiltshire plans early transfer of public health to local council
WORKFORCE: Public health staff at NHS Wiltshire are to be consulted on transfering to the local authority under plans for Wiltshire Council to become an early adopter of government proposals to integrate public health into local government.
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SW London cluster considers hospital pathology and pharmacy consolidation
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust cluster has launched a clinically-led review of services across the health economy and said consolidation options were being looked at across its acute trusts.
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Durham and Darlington hospitals struggling with A&E capacity
PERFORMANCE: County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has been struggling to meet accident and emergency waiting times requirements.
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PCTs hand University Hospitals Leicester £15m productivity fund
FINANCE: University Hospitals of Leicester Trust has been given £15m of top-sliced funds to spend on improving productivity.
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Western Sussex Hospitals finished 2010-11 with £5.2m surplus
FINANCE: The trust finished 2010-11 with a £5.2m surplus but has fallen behind plan so far this year, according to board papers.