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A&E target problems for Ashford and St Peter’s in Q1
PERFORMANCE: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust breached the four-hour target for accident and emergency waits more often than it met it during the first quarter of 2012-13, according to board papers.
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Southampton research sheds light on recurrent miscarriages
RESEARCH: A study carried out by specialists in Southampton has found that women who suffer recurrent miscarriages may actually be “super fertile”.
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SHA agrees extra £10m for South London Healthcare Trust in 'transition year'
FINANCE: NHS London has agreed to release £10m it had topsliced from the south east London primary care trusts to bail out South London Healthcare Trust in a “transition year”.
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Trust enters joint venture to market performance management software
COMMERCIAL: The south east London mental and community health services trust has entered a joint venture to market its medical performance management software.
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Basildon receives CQC warning over A&E waits for children
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust has been given a formal warning by the Care Quality Commission after unannounced inspections found triage times for children were being breached.
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Crackdown on foreigners' use of NHS treatment
Ministers have warned they will not tolerate abuse of the NHS by foreign visitors after a woman reportedly flew from Nigeria so that she could have her baby in a British hospital.
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Huge rise in gastric bypass ops
The number of gastric bypass operations carried out by the NHS in England has risen five-fold during the past five years
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University College London Hospitals makes 5.6 per cent saving in 2011-12
FINANCE: University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust made a 5.6 per cent saving in 2011-12.
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£5.4m for long term conditions in SW London
PERFORMANCE: NHS London has agreed that NHS South West London can use £5.4m in top-sliced funding to set up a long term conditions programme delivery board.
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East London cluster spends £6.4m on redundancy costs and CSS set-up
FINANCE: The east London primary care trust cluster has had funding of £6.4m approved by NHS London to pay for redundancy costs and the transition costs of setting up commissioning support services.
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Guy's and St Thomas' given £4.7m loan to tackle waiting list backlog
FINANCE: NHS South East London applied to NHS London for a £4.7m loan to tackle the waiting list backlog at South London Foundation Trust, HSJ can reveal.
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North West London Hospitals and Ealing Hospital merger to cost £30.4m
STRUCTURE: The merger of North West London Hospitals Trust and Ealing Hospital Trust is to cost £30.4m, board papers reveal.
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NHS Brent commissioning new trauma, medical oncology and orthopaedics outpatient services
COMMERCIAL: NHS Brent is commissioning new outpatient services in 11 service lines.
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Royal Marsden sees £12m shortfall from NHS patients
FINANCE: The Royal Marsden Foundation Trust has said NHS tariffs means it faces an underlying loss of £12m a year.
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Trust's response to patient who died in police custody ruled 'inadequate'
PERFORMANCE: The South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust, which provides mental health services in south London, has been criticised by a jury for its “inadequate” response to a patient who later died in police custody.
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Cluster finds extra funding to tackle year-plus IVF waiters
PERFORMANCE: Minutes of NHS South West London’s performance committee said money would be made available to reduce the number of IVF patients waiting longer than a year at one of the hospitals serving the cluster.
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HealthWatch seeks 'assurance' over Harmoni out-of-hours service
PERFORMANCE: Minutes of the meeting of the Kingston Commissioning Committee said it had been told some record checks were being done by an administrator rather than a medic.
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NE ambulance service below target in rural areas
PERFORMANCE: The North East Ambulance Service is struggling to achieve emergency response targets in rural areas despite a £1.9 million investment in services, board papers show.
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Yorkshire Ambulance Service top performer on emergency calls
PERFORMANCE: Yorkshire Ambulance Service has outperformed all other English ambulance trusts on responding to emergency calls within eight minutes so far this year.
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SASH breached A&E target in April
PERFORMANCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust breached the four-hour target for accident and emergency waits for two consecutive weeks during the first quarter of 2012-13, according to board papers.