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NewsOsborne outlines PFI reassessment plans
Chancellor George Osborne today announced a “fundamental reassessment” of the government’s controversial private finance initiative, with the aim of cutting costs and improving transparency.
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Ashford and St Peter’s bid for Epsom confirmed
STRUCTURE: The board in charge of demerging Epsom and St Helier hospitals to ensure they achieve foundation trust status has confirmed it has received a bid from Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital FT to merge with Epsom.
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Whittington plans to split benefits of contract 50:50 with GPs
STRUCTURE: The Whittington Health Trust plans to split the benefits of a block contract scheme 50:50 with local GP commissioners, according to its latest strategy document.
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South Warwickshire FT eyes community assets
STRUCTURE: South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is “confident” it will be allowed to take ownership of community hospitals in its area.
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Doncaster and Bassetlaw says 2,000 A&E admissions down to road collisions
PERFORMANCE: Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust has announced more than 2,000 admissions to its A&E and minor injuries unit between April and September 2011 were due to road traffic collissions, in support of a campaign.
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Community DTOC up at Somerset Partnership
PERFORMANCE: Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust lost more than 500 bed days to delayed discharges during September.
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South Warwickshire FT beats surplus target
FINANCE: An injection of “deferred income” has enabled South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust to deliver more than double its target surplus for September.
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C difficile and A&E improvements for South Warwickshire FT
PERFORMANCE: South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is reporting a “general improvement in performance” for the second quarter of 2011-12.
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Sherwood Forest slips on capital spend
FINANCE: Slippage on capital expenditure due to the delay on the renal scheme remains outside of the 25 per cent tolerance level that Monitor applies to capital spend variances.
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Overnight power loss at Worthing Hospital
PERFORMANCE: Worthing Hospital lost its mains power supply for more than 12 hours last week.
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Lewisham Healthcare above average for claims
PERFORMANCE: The south London trust’s number of in-year negligence claims per 10,000 bed days was 2.52 against a national mean of 1.37.
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NewsLansley to announce 'ban' on minimum waiting times
The health secretary is to announce a “ban” on primary care trusts setting minimum waiting times for procedures, with the threat of “removing the chair of the PCT” if it is broken.
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George Eliot loses £1m of capital resources to bail out another trust
FINANCE: The West Midlands strategic health authority is to take £1m of capital funds out of George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust to another provider.
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NewsFraud costing NHS '£3bn a year'
Dishonest doctors, healthcare staff, patients and contractors are costing the NHS more than £3bn a year in fraudulent activity, a report has claimed.
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Derbyshire identifies AQP priorities
FINANCE: Clinical commissioners have identified three services they would like to add to their “Any Qualified Provider” list.
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Delayed discharges double at Medway FT
PERFORMANCE: Delayed discharges from Medway Foundation Trust more than doubled to 4.8 per cent in September from 2 per cent in August, against a target of 3.5 per cent.
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Medway FT deficit driven by staff pay costs
FINANCE: Medway Foundation Trust had a deficit of £2.3m at the end of the first six months of the financial year, £651,000 more than it had planned at this stage.
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Midlands announces cluster chairs
WORKFORCE: NHS Midlands and East has announced the appointment of four chairs to the newly created primary care trust cluster organisations across the region and two new trust chairs.
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More than 200 PCT staff aligned to CCG roles
WORKFORCE: The cluster has recently undertaken a workforce mapping exercise and identified the potential destination of each member of staff once the PCTs are abolished in March 2013.
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Medway had to alter 13 per cent of outpatients appointments
PERFORMANCE: Medway Foundation Trust had to change or cancel more than 4,500 outpatient appointments in September - more than 13 per cent of the total.