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Slow progress on NHS Salford strategic investments leaves funds at risk
FINANCE: Slow progress on a series of planned public health initiatives are the “main reason” for the primary care trust’s plan to lodge an extra £2.5m with NHS North West this year.
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NewsCQC threatens mental health FT with enforcement action over failings
Inspectors have called for urgent improvements at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust after finding it to be in breach of five essential standards.
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Northumbria FT faces £21,000 Choose and Book fine
PERFORMANCE: Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust faces a £21,000 penalty from commissioners for failing to make enough appointments available on the Choose & Book system.
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Suffolk Mental Health Trust predicts surplus, despite risks
FINANCE: Suffolk Mental Health Partnership Trust is forecasting that it will hit its surplus target of £0.8m by the end of the year, despite risks including a merger with a neighbouring trust.
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News1,000 trust jobs at risk, chief executive admits
Up to 1,000 jobs could go at the Pennine Acute Trust to meet budget savings, its chief executive has warned.
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Devon Partnership Trust FT application imminent
STRUCTURE: Devon Partnership Trust is due to submit its application for foundation trust status to Monitor on 1 May this year.
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NewsReforms 'may not give GPs freedom'
The government’s pledge to give GPs freedom over buying services for patients could be a hollow promise, according to doctors’ leaders.
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North Devon Healthcare Trust breaches waiting target for urodynamics
PERFORMANCE: North Devon Healthcare Trust saw more breaches of the six week diagnostic test target in December than in the previous seven months combined.
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NewsCall to change chaplains policy
The NHS spends £29m on hospital chaplains providing “no clinical benefit” for a huge variation in costs, according to a report.
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NewsAlcohol and drug care 'saves money'
Every pound spent on helping teenagers cope with drug and alcohol problems saves the taxpayer up to £8 over a lifetime, economists have said.
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NW London Hospitals Trust behind target on major schemes savings plan
FINANCE: A report to the board said the acute trust had achieved less than half of the major savings schemes it had planned.
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Central London community trust plans integrated care pilot for diabetes and elderly care
STRUCTURE: The community provider was approved to begin the integrated care pilot by NHS London and will work with a local acute trust, GPs and the local authority.
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PFI accounting change threatens Hinchingbrooke finances
FINANCE: Changes in the rules around accounting for expenditure under the private finance initiative could threaten Hinchingbrooke Health Care’s ability to breakeven for the year, according to board papers.
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Cornwall PCT engages with public on NHS reform
STRUCTURE: NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly have organised a series of 11 public meetings to discuss the effect of NHS reform on local service configuration.
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Winter knocks Royal Devon & Exeter FT off course on diagnostics target
PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust is agreeing a revised trajectory for the six week diagnostic test with its primary care trust, NHS Devon.
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NHS Hammersmith & Fulham chair to become north west London cluster chair
WORKFORCE: Jeff Zitron has been announced as chair designate for the cluster, which incorporates eight primary care trusts.
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NHS Swindon to miss chlamydia screening target
PERFORMANCE: Less than 8 per cent of young people in the NHS Swindon area have been tested for chlamydia against a target of 35 per cent.
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Staff remain at risk at NHS Islington and its PCT 'cluster'
WORKFORCE: The five-PCT cluster identified 594 at-risk posts at the start of the management cost reduction programme and 105 people have now accepted voluntary redundancy.
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Barking, Havering, and Redbridge hospitals rated red for ambulance handover
PERFORMANCE: Queen’s Hospital, Romford, and King George, Ilford, were both rated red for handover times.
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Chelsea and Westminster FT has second best ambulance handover time in London
PERFORMANCE: The central London hospital had an average patient handover time between ambulance and trust of 11.8 minutes at the end of last year.