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North Tees and Hartlepool above C. diff target
PERFORMANCE: North Tees and Hartlepool Foundation Trust is above trajectory for c dif cases in the first nine months of the financial year.
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South Tees reports £2.6m surplus
FINANCE: South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust was reporting a surplus of £2.6m at the end of December - £1.6m below plan.
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Work continues on Newcastle's falls strategy
PERFORMANCE: Work is continuing to embed the falls prevention strategy at Newcastle Hospitals.
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Medical simulation training facility opens in Gateshead
SERVICE: TV chef and hairy biker Simon King opened a new medical simulation training facility in Gateshead.
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Tees trust sees performance improve
PERFORMANCE: Performance has been improving in the parts of North Yorkshire where the Tees, Esk and Wear Valley Foundation Trust has taken on.
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NewsStandardised GP contract by 2015 is 'naive'
GP practices will agree and move to a new standard national contract within “two to three years”, the NHS Commissioning Board is estimating. The timescale has provoked warnings from leading GPs that the plan is “naive”.
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NHS Bristol to tender for new mental health provider
COMMERCIAL: Secondary mental health services in Bristol are to be put out to tender after clinicians raised concerns about the quality being delivered by the current provider.
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NewsDH advisers paid 'as companies' to reduce tax
Twenty-five Whitehall advisers who shared salaries of more than £4m were paid through limited companies, it has been reported.
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Exclusive: London lost over 70 emergency calls after clocks went back
PERFORMANCE: London Ambulance Service Trust lost dozens of 999 calls after an IT problem caused by the switch from British Summer Time, it has been revealed.
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Two south Tees emerging CCGs merge into one
STRUCTURE: The three emerging clinical commissioning groups within Redcar and Cleveland and Middlesbrough PCTs have merged into one.
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NewsQuality of hospital care concerning doctors
More than a quarter of consultants think the continuity of care offered by their hospital is poor or very poor, according to a poll.
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LeaderThe Health Bill plan B is dead, but plan C lives on
David Cameron has made passing the Health Bill a matter of confidence – making it close to impossible the legislation will fail. We now need to ask what kind of bill will be passed and what will happen afterwards.
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NewsLitigation authority reform could lower trust costs
Trusts could benefit from significantly reduced clinical negligence payouts and insurance premiums if the NHS Litigation Authority successfully reforms “draconian” risk assessments, HSJ has been told.
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Three north Tees emerging CCGs merge into one
STRUCTURE: The two emerging clinical commissioning groups in Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees PCTs have merged into one.
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New chair for Shelford Group foundation trust
WORKFORCE: One of England’s most prestigious foundation trusts has appointed a new chair.
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NewsQuality standards hit by arm's length body underspends
Government spending restrictions are delaying key reform programmes and will mean an underspend of £40m across the Department of Health’s 15 arm’s length bodies.
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NHS Blackpool prepares for consultation on major reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: Commissioners across Blackpool and Lancashire will next month begin public consultation on a major reconfiguration of community inpatient services across the Fylde coast.
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News'Prudent' regulator amasses 50 per cent surplus
A £3.4m surplus run up by the body responsible for regulating fertility treatment could pay for up to 850 in vitro fertilisation cycles if returned to providers, it has been claimed.
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NewsCommissioning support services to get private sector guidance
The Department of Health has invited private sector consultancies to brief NHS commissioning support services at a series of regular national “learning network” events, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust backtracks on umbilical blood collections
A foundation trust has seemingly backtracked on a scheme to offer mothers a private facility to collect blood from their baby’s umbilical cord.