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Interest in North Bristol tender "encouraging"
COMMERCIAL: North Bristol Trust has received eight pre qualification questionnaires in response to its tender for a partner to build and health and social care centre and provide nursing services.
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Berkshire cluster fails to agree asset transfer plan with trust
STRUCTRE: The Berkshire primary care trust cluster’s plans to transfer community service properties to Berkshire Healthcare are “inconsistent with Department of Health guidance” and the issue will take months to resolve, HSJ has learned.
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DH advertises for future leader of Public Health England
The Department of Health has begun advertising for a chief executive designate for its new executive agency Public Health England.
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Leader
Cameron is tending self-inflicted wounds
One thing is clear from the government response to the NHS Future Forum. Contrary to press reports, no “order” has been given to deliver “integration of health and social care”.
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Basildon FT looks at 5 per cent cost cut
FINANCE: A tough year is in prospect at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust, which is planning for reductions in divisional costs of 5 per cent.
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Worcestershire Health and Care struggles to recruit medics
WORKFORCE: Worcestershire Health and Care Trust has decided to recruit nurse consultants instead of doctors after struggling to fill medical posts.
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Stroke concern at Cambs PCT cluster
PERFORMANCE: Performance on stroke targets is causing concern at NHS Peterborough and NHS Cambridgeshire.
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Greater Manchester signs £1.8m home oxygen contract
COMMERCIAL: The Greater Manchester cluster of primary care trusts has signed a contract worth an estimated £1.8m for the provision of home oxygen services to all 10 PCTs in the area.
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Berkshire Healthcare restructures community service management
STRUCTURE: Berkshire Healthcare has established a new management structure for its community services.
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Nottingham named regional trauma centre
STRUCTURE: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has been designated the region’s lead trauma centre
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New chief medical officer at Rotherham FT
WORKFORCE: A new medical director has started work at The Rotherham Foundation Trust.
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Amber/red rating for governance at Dudley
PERFORMANCE: Dudley Group of Hospitals Foundation Trust has been amber/red rated by Monitor for governance due to higher than planned levels of Clostridium difficile and outstanding CQC compliance actions.
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Hospitals spending less than £3 on patient meals
NHS hospitals are spending as little as £2.57 to feed and water patients each day - or 86 pence a meal, new figures reveal today.
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HSJ Local
Basildon unlikely to hit 98 per cent A&E target
PERFORMANCE: A&E performance against the four hour target stands at 97.8 per cent in the year to date and is unlikely to reach 98 per cent by the end of the year, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust’s board has been told.
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HSJ Local
Greater Manchester cluster proposes responsibility for networks’ funding
STRUCTURE: The NHS Greater Manchester ‘cluster’ of primary care trusts has proposed that it take over responsibility funds held to support the Making it Better reconfiguration of the city’s maternity services.
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Leicester, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire form £10m sports and exercise centre
STRUCTURE: Three trusts have linked up with universities to form a £10m centre for sport and exercise medicine.
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Future Forum: all commissioners should consider NHS and social care shared budgets
Commissioners should be able to override current payment rules and share budgets with local authorities in order to accelerate service integration, according to the NHS Future Forum.
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Trusts rewarded with 'quality premium' under Future Forum plan
Trusts’ budgets will be top-sliced to fund a “quality premium” for organisations providing high quality training for NHS staff, under a proposal in a government-commissioned report.
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Budding ICO aiming for 'maximum integration'
STRUCTURE: The health economy in North Somerset is hoping to move away from payment by results to achieve “maximum integration”, HSJ has been told.
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NHS stuck in 'information dark ages', says Future Forum
The NHS needs a culture change to drag itself out of the “information dark ages” and avoid reputational damage, the NHS Future Forum has said.