Latest news – Page 1394
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Oxfordshire GP consortium elects leader
WORKFORCE: Dr Stephen Richards has been elected to lead the Oxfordshire GP Consortium with 94 per cent of the vote.
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Public NHS involvement suspended in Birmingham
Birmingham has been left without a fully functioning patient and public involvement network after its “two key decision making groups” were temporarily suspended.
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Fears over offender services as duties transfer to PCTs
One of the largest providers of drug and alcohol services for offenders has expressed serious concerns about primary care trusts’ readiness to commission them.
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Transferred employees feel 'marooned'
Clinicians who transferred from the NHS to work in independent treatment centres feel “marooned” and worry about standards of care, according to research.
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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh FT plans whistleblowing hotline
WORKFORCE: Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh foundation trust will this month launch a whistleblowers’ hotline, after a 2010 review found a “culture of bullying” left some staff scared to raise safety concerns.
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Trusts set 'unlikely' savings targets for 2011-12
England’s acute trusts have increased the scale of their cost improvement programmes by nearly a third in 2011-12, an HSJ analysis reveals.
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UnitedHealth pulls out of UK primary care provision
American private health insurance giant UnitedHealth is pulling out of the UK market for primary care provision, saying it wants to focus on its commissioning support business.
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Council throws hat in ring for Surrey community contract
COMMERCIAL: Surrey County Council has bid to take over the running of Surrey Community Health, according to primary care trust board papers.
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NHS finance bosses 'concerned' over productivity targets
NHS finance directors are already warning their plans to improve productivity in 2011-12 may not be met, less than a month into the financial year.
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HSJ Local
Birmingham East and North rapped over lax data security
PERFORMANCE: Inadequate IT security at NHS Birmingham East and North left data relating to “thousands of individuals” exposed, as well as “high level information” concerning patients.
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GPs unclear on forming non-neighbouring consortia
GPs remain in the dark over whether they can form consortia from non-neighbouring practices.
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HSJ Local
£1.9m hole in Countess of Chester 2011-12 savings plan
FINANCE: At the start of March the foundation trust had identified plans for cost savings of £5.1m in 2011-12, board papers show.
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Shrewsbury and Telford saves just £3.7m of £12.1m plan
FINANCE: Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust has only saved £3.7m out of its £12.1m savings plan for 2010-11.
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Derbyshire PCTs to pilot productivity scheme for general practice
PERFORMANCE: A new GP scheme aiming to increase efficiency is being trialled in Derbyshire.
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Waiting times rising amid cuts, King's Fund finds
NHS waiting times are rising as financial strain on the healthcare system begins to show, according to a report published today.
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Community service transfer delays revealed by Department of Health
A total of 29 community service transfers involving 35 primary care trusts have been delayed beyond the Department of Health’s 1 April deadline, the DH has admitted.
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HSJ Local
Northern Lincolnshire FT reconfigures community midwife service
STRUCTURE: A new system of post-natal care will be established in North East Lincolnshire from next month.
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Yorkshire chief named on 'listening exercise' review panel
WORKFORCE: NHS Yorkshire and Humber chief executive Bill McCarthy is one of a handful of managers, and the only strategic health authority chief executive, to be a appointed a member of the NHS Future Forum review panel.
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Trusts struggling to hit accident and emergency indicators
Fewer than half of accident and emergency departments are on course to meet the new “indicator” for measuring the time taken to treat patients, an HSJ analysis suggests.
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Leader
Straggling organisations set to slip into crisis
The popular perception is that the fortunes of the NHS rise and fall on a national basis. HSJ readers will know the true picture is one of variation – often stark – between organisations and regions.