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Uncertain future for Somerset learning disability services
COMMERCIAL: Learning disability services in Somerset could be put out to tender or spun off into a social enterprise, board papers reveal.
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AWP wins prison contract
COMMERCIAL: Avon and Wiltshire Partnership Trust has been awarded a contract to provide substance misuse services to HMP Bristol.
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Councils using social care cash to plug funding gaps
A new report claims that almost half of councils are plugging gaps in access to existing social care services by using additional social care funding from the NHS, rather than spending it on providing additional services or improving quality.
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NewsKent, Surrey and Sussex NHS 111 provider named
A partnership between out-of-hours provider Harmoni and South East Coast Ambulance Service Foundation Trust has been named preferred provider to deliver NHS 111 in Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
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Mixed picture for emergency admissions at Somerset trusts
PERFORMANCE: Emergency admissions to Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust fell by 4.7 per cent in 2011-12 compared with 2010-11, equivalent to a reduction of 607 spells.
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Funding boost for Somerset's GP federations
STRUCTURE: Commissioners in Somerset have agreed to double the funding for the county’s nine GP federations in 2012-13 to £500,000.
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ROH CQUINs worth over £600,000 at risk
FINANCE: The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Foundation Trust identified an increased risk in achieving Commissioning for Quality and Innovation requirements for 2012-13.
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Southern Health to open new learning disability unit
STRUCTURE: Southern Health Foundation Trust has set up a specialist team to provide support, assessment and treatment for people with complex learning disabilities.
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CCGs tender £22m worth of services from Nottingham treatment centre
COMMERCIAL: Clinical Commissioning Groups around Nottingham are advertising for a provider to deliver services up to a value of £42m from Nottingham Treatment Centre.
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NewsPatients to rate doctors' surgeries
A new points scoring system will allow patients to rate doctors’ surgeries.
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St George's begins strategy review
STRUCTURE: The south west London acute trust is considering its strategy over the next eight years.
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DH tells would-be FT application delay 'cannot happen again'
PERFORMANCE: A West Midlands teaching hospital has seen its application date for applying for foundation trust status delayed in the face of falling revnues ansd “numerous performance issues”.
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HSJ LocalLeicester gets all-clear from CQC
PERFORMANCE: Inspectors from the Care Quality Commission have given the University Hospitals of Leicester Trust the all-clear after it was issued with a warning notice by the watchdog earlier this year.
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Record fine for data breach to be appealed
PERFORMANCE: A south coast hospital trust is to appeal against a decision to fine it £325,000 for a serious breach of the Data protection Act.
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NewsUnequal GP access could hamper NHS reforms, MPs warned
The continued “severe iniquity” in the geographical distribution of GPs threatens to place clinical commissioning groups in poor areas at a “large disadvantage”, MPs have been told.
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North Bristol Trust appoints new chief executive
WORKFORCE: North Bristol Trust director of nursing Marie-Noelle Orzel is to take over as interim chief executive on 2 July.
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‘Watershed’ moment for Brighton and Sussex
STRUCTURE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has received Department of Health approval for major redevelopment plans.
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UHBristol strugglng with A&E target
PERFORMANCE: A shortage of nursing staff is one of the key reasons University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust has consistently failed the four hour accident and emergency target in 2012.
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Hampshire trust tenders for new cancer centre
COMMERCIAL: Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust is calling for bids to design a new cancer treatment centre in Basingstoke.
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Mother attending Mid Staffs told healthy baby had died
PERFORMANCE: An investigation has been launched into how doctors at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust told a pregnant woman she had lost her baby - and tried to remove it - only to discover it was healthy.