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NewsPrivately-run centre breaches 18-week standard
Patients are being diverted away from a privately-run treatment centre because the 18-week referral-to-treatment standard is being breached.
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Commissioners plan £28.6m disinvestment from UCLH
FINANCE: The central London acute and specialist trust faces a disinvestment under the North Central London cluster’s QIPP programme of £28.6m over the next three years.
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‘Block contract’ loses Southport and Ormskirk Hospital £1.6m
FINANCE: A ‘block contract’ with the trust’s main commissioners has lost it around £1.6m for the year to date, its latest finance report suggests.
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NewsBMA warns of first doctor industrial action in decades
The first ballot of doctors on industrial action since 1975 will go ahead within weeks if the government does not rethink the major changes it is making to NHS pensions.
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Royal Free authorised as Foundation Trust
STRUCTURE: The north London acute was today authorised as a foundation trust by Monitor.
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George Eliot Trust seeks to solve death rate problem
George Eliot Hospital trust has launched a plan to combat its “poor” mortality rate.
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Five Arden CCGs merge into three
STRUCTURE: Coventry and Warwickshire’s five clinical commissioning groups have been merged into three after a strategic health authority risk assessment flagged concerns over the proposed configuration.
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Whittington Health faces a £19.8m disinvestment from its commissioners
FINANCE: The north London integrated care organisation faces a disinvestment under the North Central London cluster’s QIPP programme of £19.8m over the next three years.
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£1.3m overspend forecast for Eastern Cheshire clinical commissioners
FINANCE: Eastern Cheshire clinical commissioning group was forecasting a 2011-12 overspend of £1.3m at the end of December, its latest finance report shows.
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Only one out of six bidders for 111 service met criteria
PERFORMANCE: Only one out of six bidders to provide a 111 call handling service and improved medical out-of-hours services for Norfolk met all the criteria.
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Two community hospitals face closure in Hertfordshire
SERVICE REORGANISATION: Two community hospitals in Hertfordshire could close as early as June - with patients requiring intermediate care supported in their own homes or in care homes.
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Public health strong focus in North Central London's CQUINs
PERFORMANCE: The north central London cluster selected six local CQUINs for the providers in its patch including, “alcohol reduction” and smoking cessation.
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Oxford professor wins international prize
CLINICAL RESEARCH: Professor Fiona Powrie, of the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals Trust, has been given an international prize for clinical research.
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Out-of-hours provider issued with performance notice
PERFORMANCE Out-of-hours provider Urgent Care Cambridgeshire has been issued with a performance notice by NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough after it failed to need the national quality requirement for routine telephone assessment over three months.
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG plans to provide commissioning support in-house
STRUCTURE: The proposed shadow Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG is planning to provide most of its support functions in-house - but may purchase some back office functions externally.
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Cambridge and Hinchingbrooke fall below 95pc A&E threshold
PERFORMANCE: Both Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust and Hinchingbrooke Healthcare Trust fell below the 95 per cent standard for four hour waits in A&E in January.
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Bedford must save nearly £17m
FINANCE: Bedford Hospital Trust will need to make cost reductions totalling £16.9m in 2012-13 just to break even.
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital forecasts red rating over performance
PERFORMANCE: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn, Foundation Trust is forecasting it will be red-rated on performance by Monitor at the end of this quarter.
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Cluster turns down majority of individual funding requests
PEFORMANCE: Figures from the cluster showed 42 of 76 cases received between April 26 2011 and February 9 2012 were declined.
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NHS Enfield hopes to save £1m with end of life care programme
PERFORMANCE: The north London PCT hopes to increase the number of people able to die at home and save money over three years with an awareness campaign and a “rapid response Palliative Care Community Support Service”.