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Capacity a risk in NHS Sandwell's commissioning support model
STRUCTURE: Sandwell PCT’s ability to offer effective commissioning support in the future could be diminished by a lack of capacity, a stock take has found.
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NewsEaston: no quality in many savings plans
The man responsible for driving the NHS’s £20bn quality, innovation, productivity and prevention savings plan has warned that some schemes being pursued under its banner have “no semblance of quality in them at all”.
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NewsPatients paying premium for surgery calls, say MPs
MPs have raised concerns that patients are facing “additional charges” to call GP surgeries, despite the practice being banned by the government.
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North Devon Healthcare to do deal with council
STRUCTURE: The board of Northern Devon Healthcare Trust has been asked to agree a memorandum of understanding with Devon County Council for the “provision of integrated adult health and social care services”.
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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells not compliant with mixed sex rules
PERFORMANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells has issued a statement admitting that it is not yet fully compliant with the Department of Health’s latest rules on phasing out mixed sex accommodation.
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NewsCameron accused of breaking NHS cash promise
The prime minister’s “personal promise” to give the NHS a real rise in funding “is being broken”, shadow health secretary John Healey has claimed.
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North East SHA reduced management costs
WORKFORCE: NHS North East’s management costs expenditure totalled £6.98m in 2010-11 - 2.44 per cent of net operating costs, compared to 3.84 per cent in the previous year.
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NewsNHS ready to investigate Brown hack claims
The NHS in Scotland is prepared to launch an investigation into how the medical records of Gordon Brown’s family were leaked to the media, according to Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon.
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NewsRise in complaints about health bodies
A parliamentary watchdog investigated double the number of complaints about government departments in the past year than in the previous 12 months, a report has said.
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Report into referral failures at NHS Hillingdon published
PERFORMANCE: A report published by the north west London primary care trust cluster said there had been failings in skin cancer screening.
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More than 800 NHS Greater Manchester patients in Southern Cross homes
FINANCE: NHS Greater Manchester either fully or partially funds 838 patients staying in homes run by collapsed care home operator Southern Cross, board papers show.
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Greater Manchester cluster considers plan to halve number of local boards
STRUCTURE: The cluster will this week consider plans to collapse the number of “locality boards” representing its member primary care trusts from 10 to five.
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NewsSouthern Cross failure could speed handover of social care regulation to Monitor - Bennett
The collapse of care homes operator Southern Cross is likely to prompt the government to hand healthcare regulator Monitor responsibility for social care “sooner rather than later”, Monitor’s interim chief executive said on Tuesday.
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Derby Hospitals missing five Monitor targets
PERFORMANCE: Derby Hospitals Foundation Trust is missing five Monitor targets including referral to treatment times for admitted patients, and accident and emergency waiting times
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NewsNHS medical director: technology like international consultations will transform service
The NHS should increase the use of technology to transform services - for example through patients accessing primary diagnostic services from overseas over the internet, the NHS medical director has said. Technology should also reduce costs, he said.
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Northants General fails on A&E targets
PERFORMANCE: A patient waited for nearly 15 hours in accident and emergency at Northampton General Hospital, as the trust failed on three A&E indicators in May.
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South Tees Foundation Trust overshot C difficile target last year
PERFORMANCE: South Tees Foundation Trust recorded 125 cases of Clostridium difficile in 2010-11 against a target of 116, but the North East region met its target for preventing the infection.
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Colchester FT to bring contracts in house
COMMERCIAL: Colchester Hospital FT plans to bring an IT system and its facilities management services in house, according to board papers.
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Activity above plan at Southend FT
FINANCE: Above plan activity at Southend FT “might infer” that work by the PCT is not delivering, the trust’s board papers say.
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Royal Preston fails to meet CQC nutrition standard
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was not meeting standards relating to nutrition during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.