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NewsConfed calls for changes to EU procurement law
The NHS Confederation has urged the European Commission to simplify laws on public procurement and make it easier to negotiate better deals.
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Clinical coding award in offing for Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust
PERFORMANCE: Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust has been shortlisted for the CHKS data quality award for England.
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East Cheshire NHS Trust shortlisted for coding award
PERFORMANCE: East Cheshire NHS Trust has been shortlisted for the CHKS data quality award for England.
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Sherwood Forest Hospitals opens new nurse education centre
WORKFORCE: A new state-of-the art school for nurses, midwives and physiotherapists has opened new premises at the trust’s King’s Mill Hospital.
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Gateshead Health buys System C PAS
COMMERCIAL: Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust has bought System C’s Medway software to provide its main strategic patient administration and electronic patient record system.
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Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust appoints first learning disability nurse
WORKFORCE: Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust has appointed a specialist nurse to improve care for patients with learning disabilities.
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Quality of coding recognised at Northumbria Healthcare FT
PERFORMANCE: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has been shortlisted for the CHKS data quality award for England.
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Gateshead Health FT on data quality awards shortlist
PERFORMANCE: Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust has been shortlisted for the CHKS data quality award for England.
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NewsPatient care to suffer under reforms, CSP survey says
A survey of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy members revealed more than half believe patient care will suffer under the government’s reforms.
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Two-thirds of staff in North Central London cluster now appointed
WORKFORCE: The five-borough commissioning body said at its last board meeting it intended to have all its positions filled by early May.
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Guy's and St Thomas' plans £53.2m savings
FINANCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ plans a £53.2m savings plan to generate £30m for capital investment
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North Central London cluster sets up 'Primary Care Concerns Group'
STRUCTURE: The group would “ensure timely and appropriate response to concerns about independent contractors and performers and their services and implement appropriate actions”.
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Guy's and St Thomas' FT sets improved GP communication as quality priority
PERFORMANCE: The central London acute trust is working on a metric to measure the communications performance of district nurses and general practice.
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Guy's and St Thomas' to take action on did not attend rates
PERFORMANCE: The large London teaching hospital latest DNA rate was 13.25 per cent, more than 50 per cent over target.
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NewsDH 'tried to cover up hospital failure'
The Department of Health asked the Healthcare Commission to delay putting a hospital into special measures until after the 2005 general election, the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry has heard.
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NewsAcute trusts' FT plans slip back a year
More than a quarter of the acute trusts still bidding for foundation status have seen their application date slip by over a year.
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NewsUnder pressure trusts prepare financial cuts
The impact of this year’s significant savings plans on wards, beds, pay bills and staff at some of England’s most financially vulnerable trusts have been revealed in an analysis of 2011-12 business plans.
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NHS Wiltshire chief executive to lead PCT cluster
WORKFORCE: NHS Wiltshire chief executive Jeff James has been appointed to lead a cluster of two PCTs.
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Cumbria PCT overspends budget by £5.9m in 2010-11
FINANCE: Draft accounts for 2010-11 show that the primary care trust finished the year overspent by £5.9m.
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NHS Manchester plans for £1m surplus on £1.03bn turnover
FINANCE: The primary care trust is planning to underspend its £1,033m allocation for 2011-12 by just £1m, NHS North West board papers report.