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Crucial report on NHS reforms released today
Recommendations on how best to amend the government’s reform plans for the NHS are to be unveiled later today.
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Doctors urge Cameron to speed Hinchingbrooke takeover
STRUCTURE: Consultants and GPs have written to the Prime Minister asking him to unblock the process that has seen the private franchise management of the hospital delayed.
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NAO find targets led to a 'skewed' approach
Ambulances were dispatched unnecessarily on more than two million occasions in a year because of a “skewed” approach to performance management caused by response time targets.
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Coventry and Warwickshire CIP revised up by £5m
FINANCE: University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is under increasing financial pressure with its cost improvement plan being revised up, while it recorded an above-plan deficit for the first month of 2011-12.
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North West London cluster allocates £12.5m in PCT bail-outs
FINANCE: The North West London cluster has ear-marked £12.5m in support for three of its eight primary care trusts - Ealing, Harrow and Hillingdon.
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Fourteen London trusts with workforce concerns, says SHA report
WORKFORCE: The latest London Operational Health Intelligence Group report shows issues at 14 trusts including ratio of bank to permanent staff, skill mix and sick days.
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Public health funding argument 'is over'
A senior Department of Health official has given a strong indication that councils have lost the argument over ringfenced public health budgets and that the government will not turn on the issue.
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NHS Hillingdon to have £7.5m QIPP gap funded by cluster
FINANCE: The North West London cluster of primary care trusts agreed to cover the sum from non-recurrent budgets drawn from its £34m fund created the two per cent PCT top-slice.
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Health Bill could be sent back to MP committee
The proposed health service reforms could be sent back to a committee of MPs, a senior government minister has confirmed.
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GPs don't think they are ready to commission, survey suggests
GPs and primary care staff are not confident in their ability to carry out the roles they would have under the government’s reforms, findings released today suggest.
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Further delays to Bedford Hospital FT application
STRUCTURE: Bedford Hospital, whose FT application was sent back from the Department of Health last year, still has issues to address before reapplying, according to the East of England provider development board.
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Five NHS North Lancashire complaints to ombudsman in 2010-11
PERFORMANCE: The primary care trust received 151 complaints in 2010-11 of which five complainants then referred their cases to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.
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Ward closures planned by Hampshire Partnership
STRUCTURE: Hampshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has been consulting on plans to close two wards providing mental health services for older people.
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Great Western falls foul of CQC review
PERFORMANCE: Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust has been ordered to improve arrangements for patient dignity and privacy following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
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Government warned better leadership is required to repel strikes
The government has been urged to build leadership and management skills in the public sector as well as improving communication in order to counter forthcoming industrial action.
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Bradford & Airedale agrees consortia management budgets
STRUCTURE: Bradford and Airedale Teaching PCT has agreed emerging commissioning consortia management funds for 2011-12, and payment for “practice level engagement in GP commissioning”.
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RDE laundry is a money spinner
COMMERCIAL: The Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust is looking to boost its non NHS income through its laundry and children’s nursery.
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Six governors elected to Doncaster and Bassetlaw
STRUCTURE: Six governors have been elected to the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospital Foundation Trust board of governors.
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NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly social enterpise stalls
STRUCTURE: NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly has delayed approving the transfer of its community services to a social enterprise until the end of June.
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Bradford and Airedale moves towards two consortia
STRUCTURE: GPs in Bradford and Airedale Teaching PCT are looking to create two commissioning consortia.