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'Agreed resignations' to cost Birmingham and Black Country clusters £11m
WORKFORCE: The Black Country and Birmingham and Solihull primary care trust clusters have announced they will spend £11m on voluntary redundancies.
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Oxford trust plans two new operating theatres
STRUCTURE: Oxford University Hospitals Trust is planning to open two operating theatres on its Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre site.
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North of England provider development lead joins Trust Development Authority
WORKFORCE: Nicky O’Connor, programme director in the North of England SHA Cluster provider development team, has been appointed to the role of portfolio director in the NHS Trust Development Authority.
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Emergency admissions on the rise at Torbay Hospital
PERFORMANCE: Emergency admissions to South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust increased by 5.6 per cent between April and August 2012 compared to the same period the previous year.
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Taunton MRSA free for more than 18 months
PERFORMANCE: Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust has gone more than 555 days without a case of MRSA.
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Yeovil passes CQC inspection
PERFORMANCE: Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust was meeting all inspected standards when the Care Quality Commission visited in September.
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Imperial receives specialist top-up funding
FINANCE: Imperial College Healthcare Trust has received its Project Diamond funding from the Department of Health, a top-up payment for specialist trusts in London.
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Imperial to save £12m after gaining level three NHSLA accreditation
FINANCE Imperial College Healthcare Trust has gained level three accreditation from the NHS Litigation Authority.
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Lewisham Hospital better than average on coding
FINANCE: A report to the south east London primary care trust cluster said: “Lewisham Healthcare Trust with a clinical coding Healthcare Resource Grouping error rate of 7.2 per cent, was better than the national average.”
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Guy's and St Thomas' 'significantly worse' than national average for coding errors
FINANCE: An Audit Commission report has declared Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust “significantly worse” than the national average for mistakes in the clinical coding of work which it charges commissioners at tariff rates for.
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Payment code error rate 15 per cent at King's College Hospital
FINANCE: A report to the South East London cluster said: “King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust’s average episode healthcare resource group error rate was 15 per cent and therefore worse than the national average.”
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Moorfields in discussion with Bedford Hospital on satellite site
COMMERCIAL: Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust have had a discussion with Bedford Hospital Trust on a satellite site at the Bedfordshire trust.
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2gether ahead on surplus
FINANCE: 2gether Foundation Trust had a surplus of £1.9m at the end of September, around £800,000 ahead of plan.
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Mid Essex CCG calls for resident feedback
Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group has set up a meeting with residents to discuss what its priorities should be when it takes over from the primary care trust in April.
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NewsAnalysed: the friends and family test
HSJ Local Briefing is our in-depth analysis of key issues facing the NHS or major health economies. This week we examine the friends and family test being piloted by NHS Midlands and East.
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NewsMandate approach will avoid perverse incentives
The government has rejected the use of fixed national targets in its mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board in favour of seeking continuous improvement against the NHS outcomes framework.
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NewsAnalysis: mandate may allow space for CCGs' freedom
The first NHS mandate appears to allow leeway for clinical commissioning groups’ freedom, but there are suggestions some old style targets will remain.
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Trusts to be rewarded for friends and family test success
For all the talk of easing top-down control of trusts, the mandate mentions some levers that could hit providers.
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NewsNo set targets in revised mandate
The government has rejected the use of set national targets in the final version of its mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board, in favour of seeking continuous improvement against the NHS outcomes framework.