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Derbyshire PCTs announce new board structure
STRUCTURE: NHS Derbyshire cluster has announced its new board structure.
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Bennett warns against 'second guessing' merger rulings
Trusts involved in mergers should not “second guess” Monitor’s decisions or they risk having to “unwind” arrangements at taxpayers’ expense, the regulator’s boss has warned.
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Doncaster nurse prescribers slash alcohol addiction treatment times
PERFORMANCE: Nurses at a Yorkshire trust are pioneering a prescribing initiative for alcohol addiction patients that has helped slash treatment times.
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NHS North of England appoints non-executive directors
WORKFORCE: The newly formed cluster of strategic health authorities has announced the non-executive directors appointed to its board.
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NHS Wandsworth given permission to sell Putney Hospital to Wandsworth council
COMMERCIAL: The south west London primary care trust received permission from NHS London’s capital investment committee to sell the property for £4.5m, making a profit of £1m, a report said.
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George Eliot saw 35 per cent annual drop in C difficile
PERFORMANCE: A review of the George Eliot Hospital’s infection prevention strategy for 2010-11 has shown a 35 per cent reduction in the rates of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea and no reported infections of MRSA bacteraemia in 2010-11.
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East and North Herts must find a new generator supplier
COMMERCIAL: East and North Hertfordshire Trust must find a new company to carry out a generator improvement programme after problems with a supplier.
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Peterborough in preventative strategy talks
PERFORMANCE: NHS organisations in Peterborough are planning to focus on preventative services, after a meeting was held to discuss strategic planning in the city.
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New inpatient unit to open at Suffolk MH trust
COMMERCIAL: A new inpatient mental health facility is due to open at Suffolk Mental Health Trust next week.
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Birth centre opens at Medway FT
STRUCTURE: Medway Foundation Trust’s new midwifery-led unit has begun receiving its first patients.
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Specialist spinal unit opens in South Tees
STRUCTURE: Children and young people with spinal conditions now have access to a specialist team at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.
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Performance notices on Oxford Radcliffe lifted after improvements
PERFORMANCE: Commissioners have closed five performance notices on Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust after seeing improved performance over the past year.
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BANES rejects GPs claim for responsibility payment
FINANCE: NHS Bath and North East Somerset has agreed to pay GPs on the local clinical commissioning group a higher rate of backfill than neighbouring PCTs but has rejected requests for an additional “responsibility payment”.
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Exclusive: transparency on training budgets promised
The newly appointed head of Health Education England has told HSJ she will make it “absolutely clear” to trusts that the £5bn NHS training budget must not be raided for other uses.
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PCTs ordered to adopt single cluster board model
Primary care trust clusters must have a single board, executive team and chair, the Department of Health has said.
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Thirty trusts set to miss aspirational target for FT status
Nearly 30 trusts are unlikely to hit the government’s intended date for them to become foundation trusts, the National Audit Office has warned.
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Potential industrial action at two North West path labs, Unite warns
WORKFORCE: Two acute trusts in the North West could face industrial action in their pathology labs.
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Exclusive: SHA cluster chief executives appointed without competition
Just one candidate was interviewed for the post of chief executive in each of the three new strategic health authority clusters, HSJ can reveal.
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Government 'duty of candour' plans criticised
Government proposals to contractually oblige organisations providing NHS services to inform patients of mistakes in their care have been criticised as inadequate.
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Nicholson: trusts' procurement costs will have to be 'explained'
NHS trusts that spend more on goods and services than their peers will have to “grow up” and justify why they are doing so, under a scheme announced last week by Sir David Nicholson.