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Queen Elizabeth Hospital gets extra funding to hit A&E target
PERFORMANCE: NHS Norfolk is providing extra funding to help the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn, Foundation Trust meet A&E targets.
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Norfolk and Norwich's director of nursing retires
WORKFORCE: Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust director of nursing Nick Coveney is to retire.
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Patient confidentiality breaches at Herts Community Trust
PERFORMANCE: Seven breaches of patient confidentiality occurred in Hertfordshire Community Trust in the first nine months of the financial year - six of them in children’s services.
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Deficit reduces at Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust
FINANCE: Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust’s financial position improved slightly in January with a surplus of £857,000 for the month reducing the deficit for the year to date to £288,000.
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Norfolk Community Health and Care approaches C diff maximum
PERFORMANCE: Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust had one case of Clostridium difficile in January, bringing its total in the year so far to eight.
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NewsNHS savings plans 'short on detail' as trusts plan swathe of cuts
There is a lack of detail about where “efficiency savings” demanded by the government of the health service are being made, analysts have said.
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NewsNicholson: commissioning staff will know job fate by December
Commissioning staff will find out whether they have a place in the new commissioning system, and many will be transferred, by December, NHS Commissioning Board chief executive Sir David Nicholson has announced.
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Mid Staffs medical director announces resignation
WORKFORCE: The medical director of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has announced he is to resign, less than six months before the end of his contract.
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NewsQuarter of trusts consider negligence scheme exit
Seventy-two NHS trusts have consulted with a private insurance broker over leaving the NHS Litigation Authority for a commercial alternative, it has been claimed.
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NewsDH sets out FT pipeline escalation framework
The Department of Health has re-iterated that if trusts miss their targets for applying for foundation trust status they face an “escalation process”.
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NewsAcute sector faces wave of mergers and reconfigurations
The English NHS hospital sector is facing a wave of mergers, acquisitions and reconfigurations, HSJ’s extensive survey of trust chief executives has revealed.
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NewsNHS and pharmaceutical partnerships being deterred by 'misconceptions'
Opportunities for collaboration between the NHS and pharmaceutical companies are being missed due to “misconceptions” about the industry, guidance exclusively disclosed to HSJ has warned.
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SHIP fails to cut emergency demand
PERFORMANCE: Hampshire primary care trusts are continuing to buck a national trend with rising demand for non-elective services.
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Isle of Wight prepares to split commissioner and provider functions
STRUCTURE: The purchaser-provider split is set to be implemented on the Isle of Wight after the secretary of state approved plans to break up the existing primary care trust.
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LeaderNew NHS system threatens a tsunami of hospital mergers
A wave of reconfiguration is on the horizon.
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Community hospitals consultation will be more than 12 months overdue
STRUCTURE: A long-awaited public consultation on the future of community hospitals on the Fylde Coast has been put back again, until “at least the summer” - a year after it was due to take place.
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NewsLansley condemns expensive GP phone calls
Patients should not be charged premium phone call rates to make an appointment with their GP, health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
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Oxfordshire NHS and academic bodies form partnership
STRUCTURE: NHS and academic bodies have agreed to establish an “Oxford Academic Health Partnership”.
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NewsDoctor employed by trusts despite 'mercy killing' conviction
A foreign doctor convicted of the “mercy killing” of a patient in Spain later got a job with police in the UK, medical watchdogs have heard.
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NewsExclusive: NHS Commissioning Board to appoint all CSS leaders
The NHS Commissioning Board has announced exclusively to HSJ that it will appoint all commissioning support service leaders this spring.