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NHS Somerset names AQP services
COMMERCIAL: NHS Somerset has identified podiatry, children’s wheelchair services and diagnostics as the three services it plans to open up to any qualified provider.
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CCGs may be 'ill-equipped' to meet information governance standards
Clinical commissioning groups will be subjected to an increasing range of information governance requirements, but may be may be “ill-equipped” to meet the more rigorous standards, official guidance has said.
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New health inequalities group launched
Tackling health inequalities will be the responsibility of a new institute being launched today.
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CQC orders DHUFT to make improvements
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has identified two areas of moderate concern and five minor concerns about services at a clinic run by Dorset Healthcare University Foundation Trust.
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Birmingham's only remaining red-rated CCG disbands
STRUCTURE: An inner city clinical commissioning group is being disbanded after being red rated.
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PCTs begin 'formal performance managment' of Sunderland FT
FINANCE: Commissioners have “instigated a formal performance management process” because of City Hospitals Sunderland Foundation Trust’s elective and emergency overperformance.
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Unions warned over strike ballot turnouts
Reform of strike law will become “very pressing” if public sector workers push ahead with industrial action, ministers have warned.
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Two Surrey FTs working towards possible merger
STRUCTURE: Frimley Park is assessing a possible merger with neighbour Royal Surrey County Hospital Foundation Trust.
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Notts City issuing out of hours tender
COMMERCIAL: The PCT is launching a tender for GP out of hours provision.
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Notts County unveils chosen AQP services
FINANCE: The PCT has identified the services for which patients will have a choice of provider through the “any qualified provider” framework.
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Nottingham City endorses AQP priorities
FINANCE: The PCT has endorsed four “any qualified provider” priority services.
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Underperformance contributes to £0.6m lag at Harrogate FT
FINANCE: Performing less activity than planned has contributed to Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust being £591,000 behind plan as of September.
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Royal Surrey County considers academic health science centre
STRUCTURE: Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is considering moves to develop an academic health science centre in Surrey.
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RUH behind on CIP
FINANCE: Royal United Hospital Bath has achieved less than half of its cost improvement plan year to date and is predicting a year end shortfall of £5.8m.
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Birmingham and Solihull picks AQP services
FINANCE: The Birmingham and Solihull cluster has selected three services for which patients will be offered a choice under the “any qualified provider” framework.
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South Central sees ambulance demand increase
PERFORMANCE: Demand for ambulance services in the South Central region is rising in 2011-12 on the previous year.
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Revealed: the six trusts that need DH support with their PFI
Six hospital trusts have been identified as needing Department of Health cash support with their private finance initiative payments in order to make foundation trust status, HSJ can reveal.
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CQC chief executive Cynthia Bower: I'm not self-serving
The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has said she underestimated the “turmoil” that would be involved in setting up the regulator. She admitted she should have decided to “wave a flag” calling for outside help rather than carrying on trying to do an “impossible job”.
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Marketing helps specialist trust halt activity decline
FINANCE: Activity levels have improved at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases Foundation Trust leading to the forecast year end position improving by £50,000.
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South Devon overachieving surplus
FINANCE: South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust has overachieved its planned surplus by £766,000 at the end of month six.