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Elective admissions up but emergency admissions down at West Herts
PERFORMANCE: Activity levels at West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust was showing significant changes on last year as the PCT tried to reduce demand.
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West Hertfordshire £2.4m behind on surplus target
FINANCE: West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust was £2.4m behind its planned surplus at the end of month five, board papers show.
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Princess Alexandra trials mobile screens to enhance privacy
Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust had nine breaches of single sex accommodation in September and is trialling the use of mobile screens to enhance privacy and dignity, its board heard.
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Princess Alexandra heads for £1.5m deficit
FINANCE: Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust is heading for a £1.54m end-of-year deficit with a £1.04m deficit at the end of month six, despite transitional support promised by PCTs, according to board papers.
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Bedford Hospital needs extra CT scanner
FINANCE: Bedford Hospital Trust is to buy or lease an additional CT scanner to cope with rising demand and reduce waiting time.
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Cambridgeshire Community Services breaching 28 targets
PERFORMANCE: Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust is breaching 28 targets, its board heard.
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Cambridgeshire Community Services predicts £670,000 surplus
FINANCE: Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust is predicting a year end surplus of £670,000, a board meeting heard.
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James Paget misses performance targets
PERFORMANCE: James Paget University Hospital Foundation Trust missed a number of targets over the summer, the council of governors heard.
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Competition panel moves to second phase of NHS Peterborough investigation
COMMERCIAL: The NHS Co-operation and Competition Panel is to conduct a more detailed investigation of a complaint that NHS Peterborough breached competition rules in attempting to close a primary care access centre.
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Bury ‘patients champion’ charged with £60,000 fraud
WORKFORCE: A “patients champion” and former chair of Bury’s local involvement network has been charged with committing £60,000 of VAT fraud, in the course of half a decade of paid consultancy work for the NHS.
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30th annual HSJ Awards winners revealed
The 30th HSJ Awards took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London, recognising trusts and organisations for outstanding excellence in healthcare service and innovation across 18 key health categories.
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Exclusive: Lansley on the CQC, integration, the reform risk register and commissioning
Andrew Lansley has told HSJ the Care Quality Commission is now running a “proactive and tough” inspection regime and revealed he does not favour further reorganisation of NHS regulation.
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Your Healthcare plans social care integration with council
STRUCTURE: A leading NHS social enterprise is set to enter into an agreement with its local council to draw up plans to redesign community nursing and social care services.
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Coventry and Warwickshire deficit hits £8.5m
FINANCE: University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust has run up a deficit of more than £8.5m, with cost improvement plan savings falling behind schedule.
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Monitor to keep financial risk register for every licensed provider
Monitor will operate a financial risk register of every organisation it licenses to provide NHS services, it has revealed.
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Exclusive: 'Significant majority' of CCG population will live in its area - minister
Health minister Earl Howe has written to peers giving new details about how clinical commissioning groups’ populations and areas will be decided.
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Bill delay threat as government consults on reform risk register
The health secretary has been forced to consult across government on whether to publish the risk register for the NHS reform “transition”, as ordered by the Information Commissioner, ministers have confirmed.
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Protected training funds could increase, says Nicholson
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has hinted that the £5bn pot of “ringfenced” training money could be expanded.
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Lansley reluctant to reveal the risks of his reforms
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has said it would be “completely misleading” to release a document written by officials listing the risks posed by his reforms.
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Sheffield Hospitals chief elected chair of NHS Employers policy board
STRUCTURE: NHS Employers has announced Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Sir Andrew Cash as the new chair of its policy board.