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NHS Somerset delegates medicines to GPs
STRUCTURE: NHS Somerset has delegated responsibility for medicines management to the area’s emerging clinical commissioning group.
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NewsIVF treatment errors on the rise in UK
The number of mistakes or near-misses in IVF treatment has more than trebled in three years, figures have revealed.
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NewsStaff absenteeism highest in NHS, study shows
Employee absenteeism in the NHS is failing to be adequately addressed by managers, despite the fact that the organisation has the highest level of worker absence of any sector, a report has warned.
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Southampton trust looks to expand paediatric services
STRUCTURE: Providers and commissioners are supporting Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust to expand its paediatric services.
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Kent cluster still lacking director of finance
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust cluster has reported “good progress” in appointing directors but still has a gap in finance.
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NHS Medway records small in-year surplus
FINANCE: The primary care trust had fallen slightly behind plan after the first two months of the financial year, but did report a surplus.
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CQC finds Royal Cornwall has made improvements
PERFORMANCE: Care Quality Commission inspectors are now satisfied with the safety of Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust’s operating theatres.
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Surrey dementia tool to help local authorities
PERFORMANCE: Surrey County Council and local NHS organisations have developed a tool to help councils nationally improve standards of care for people with dementia.
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Coventry nurses develop care pathway for learning disabilities
WORKFORCE: Community nurses in Coventry have developed a care pathway for older children with learning disabilities to aid their transition into adult services.
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Performance notice issued over Caesarian rate at Ealing Hospital
PERFORMANCE: The west London acute hospital has been rapped by commissioners NHS North West London over its year-to-date Caesarian section percentage of 27.7.
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Ealing Hospital £2.6m over contract at the end of June
FINANCE: The west London acute trust reported an over-performance on contract of £2.6m at the end of June, £2.4m of it with principal commissioners NHS Ealing.
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East and Coastal Kent records year to date surplus
FINANCE: The primary care trust has reported a surplus for the first two months of the financial year but would have been in deficit without the use of contingency funds.
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SHA proposes 'no pathology service review, no bailout' policy for London trusts
FINANCE: Documents seen by HSJ reveal NHS London is proposing to make financial bail-outs conditional on trusts signing up to its plans to shake-up pathology.
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NewsSHA cluster chief executives announced
The chief executives of the strategic health authority clusters have been appointed.
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NewsFoundation Trust revives £2m e-records project
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust has resurrected plans for an e-records system despite a recent failed pilot of e-records software and criticism by MPs of attempts to create a similar network nationally.
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Reconfiguration in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire to leave three main acute sites
STRUCTURE: A strategy for the future of acute and community care in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire has made no mention of Ascot’s Heatherwood hospital, which has already been dogged by closure fears.
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NewsDH confirms delay to GP practice registration
The government has confirmed it is delaying the deadline for the registration of GP practices with the Care Quality Commission by a year.
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Mental Health Network calls to postpone personal budgets
Mental health professionals and service users have united to cast doubt on the merits of personal health budgets.
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Call for probe into GP transfer of SW London care home patients
PERFORMANCE: One of the leading lights of the government’s GP commissioning reforms has been drawn into a row which has seen the primary care trust cluster for south west London investigate claims care home patients were “dumped” by a GP practice.
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Health and safety risk from George Eliot hardware
PERFORMANCE: George Eliot Hospital is to review staffing levels in its estates department after identifying the poor maintenance as a serious risk.