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NewsNHS productivity increases by 0.7 per cent
NHS productivity has crept up slightly after more than a decade of overall decline, figures suggest.
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Southampton University Hospitals announces contract details
COMMERCIAL: Southampton Univeristy Hospitals is to spend £212,527 on an upgrade of the car park barrier system at Southampton General Hospital and Princess Anne Hospital.
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South Tyne PCTs work to address over-performance
FINANCE: South Tyneside, Gateshead and Sunderland PCTs have been working to address elective and non-elective overperformance, but are expecting to end the year in surplus.
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Mid Essex PCT heading for £3m surplus
FINANCE: Mid Essex PCT is forecasting a surplus for the 2010-11 financial year of £3m, which is £2m better than the plan.
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NewsHealth workers step up cuts fight
Unions and campaign groups will step up protests today against the government’s controversial reforms of the NHS, warning they were costing jobs and damaging services.
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Croydon Healthcare Services Trust busts bed occupancy target
PERFORMANCE: Croydon Healthcare Services Trust is over its bed occupancy target for the entire year to date.
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London mental health trusts moot IT procurement partnership
COMMERCIAL: Two south London mental health trusts have put forward the idea of a joint procurement of a London-wide patient record system.
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Mid Essex cost reductions come from consultancy spend
FINANCE: Mid Essex PCT has delivered management cost savings mainly through reducing the use of external consultants, with some savings coming from voluntary redundancies.
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News£90m mental health unit approved
A new £90m mental health unit in South Wales has moved a step closer after Welsh assembly minister Edwina Hart gave her blessing to the scheme.
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St Helens and Knowsley has £4.2m hole in savings plan despite calling in PwC
FINANCE: The trust still does not know where £4.2m of the savings it needs to make next year will come from, despite hiring PricewaterhouseCoopers to “review cost reduction and productivity opportunities for 2011-12”.
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Imperial faces 15 per cent CIP target
FINANCE: Imperial has said its Cost Improvement Programme target for 2011-12 will be 15 per cent of controllable costs.
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NewsPeer warns of upper house opposition to Health Bill
Government concessions over the Health Bill may be insufficient to dispel “profound disquiet” over the legislation in the House of Lords, which could significantly delay its passage, a senior peer has warned.
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NHS London predicts five trusts will end year in deficit
FINANCE: Five acutes and one primary care trust in London are expected to finish the financial year in deficit, according to strategic health authority board papers.
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NewsLeading GP groups risk creation of 'sink estate' consortia
GPs are forming commissioning groups that do not cover a defined geographic area, sometimes excluding lower performing practices.
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NewsHakin rules out consortia patient charges
The national lead for the government’s commissioning reforms has ruled out the prospect of consortia reducing the range of NHS services provided or extending charges.
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Southampton shocked at potential loss of children's heart surgery
STRUCTURE: Management at Southampton University Hospitals were shocked to find they were at risk of being stopped from carrying out paediatric cardiac surgery in England despite excellent clinical ratings, according to board papers.
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NHS Hillingdon to miss surplus target
FINANCE: NHS Hillingdon is £4.9m behind its financial plan for 2010-11, reporting a deficit of £1.2m in February.
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NewsEarly consortium transfers expected by commissioners
Most commissioning managers and GPs responding to an HSJ survey believe the proposed handover to consortia will happen well ahead of schedule.
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NewsGovernment has not done enough to prevent price competition - Confed
The government must set prices across most aspects of health service provision to prevent price competition accelerating under its reforms, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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East London FT third highest reporter of incidents
PERFORMANCE: The FT has become the third highest reporter of incidents among the capital’s mental health trusts