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Leader
Alcohol harm is causing a nasty headache
The impact of alcohol on the nation’s health is beginning to shade from a worry into a crisis. Dr Foster Intelligence’s exclusive analysis for HSJ shows that 7 per cent of hospital admissions are related to alcohol.
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HSJ Local
Kingston consortium demands fair play from PCT cluster
CHANGE IN STRUCTURE: A GP consortium in south-west London has written to its primary care trust cluster chief executive demanding to be “dealt with fairly” and revealing it intends to use the consultancy KPMG for their 2011-12 development plan.
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HSJ Local
Buckinghamshire trust rejects PCT waiting times plea
PERFORMANCE: Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust has rejected a request from the local primary care trust to extend waiting times for first appointments.
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News
Compensation danger over LIFT contract transfers
The impending abolition of primary care trusts has made the NHS vulnerable to claims totalling in the “high hundreds of millions” from companies that hold local improvement finance trust contracts.
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HSJ Local
PCTs fearful of £9.5m overspend on continuing care
FINANCE: Birmingham’s three primary care trusts are warning they could end the year £9.5m overspent on continuing healthcare.
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News
NHS Direct renews plans for FT status in 2013
NHS Direct has renewed its ambition to become a foundation trust and is pinning its future viability on becoming a “major provider” of the NHS 111 urgent care service.
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News
Scrutiny of problem GPs raises concerns
A vital gap in the governance of GPs could open once primary care trusts are abolished, the head of the National Clinical Assessment Service has warned.
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News
Medical errors to cost hospitals payment
The government has confirmed its plan not to pay hospitals if patients are harmed or killed as a result of blunders.
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News
Nursing needs more leadership, investigation finds
Significant gaps in nursing leadership have been exposed in assessments carried out by trusts following the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust scandal.
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HSJ Local
Weston Area Health Trust does deal with PCT on overperformance
FINANCE: NHS North Somerset has agreed to pay Weston Health Trust an additional £600,000 for over performance above the value of its contract.
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HSJ Local
Royal United Bath reports best A&E performance in region
PERFORMANCE: Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust was the best performing trust in the south west for A&E waiting times in the week between Christmas and New Year.
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HSJ Local
TCS sees Northampton General Hospital Trust gain services
STRUCTURE: Northampton General Hospital Trust is taking over several primary care and community facilities.
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HSJ Local
£1m from private mental health underspend funding acute overspends at NHS Dudley
FINANCE: NHS Dudley is using a £1m underspend on its private sector mental health services to offset a £2.9m acute overspend.
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HSJ Local
Oxfordshire PCT to delegate most commissioning in April
FINANCE: NHS Oxfordshire is ready to delegate about two thirds of its commissioning budget to its single commissioning consortium from April.
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HSJ Local
A&E waiting times get even worse at Royal Bolton FT
PERFORMANCE: The foundation’s already failing performance against the key waiting time indicator for accident and emergency treatment deteriorated further in December.
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HSJ Local
32 NHS Wirral staff come forward for voluntary redundancy
WORKFORCE: The primary care trust has received 32 applications for voluntary redundancy, which it estimates could cut its pay bill by more than £1m a year.
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HSJ Local
Low patient numbers make waiting targets a challenge for Aintree Hospitals FT
PERFORMANCE: The foundation missed referral to treatment waiting targets for Knowsley patients in five specialties in November, latest figures show.
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HSJ Local
CQC still has 'concerns' over North East London Foundation Trust consent to treatment assurance
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission said consent to treatment was its “greatest area of concern” at the London mental health trust, particularly as it had been brought up in previous reports by the Mental Health Act Commission.
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HSJ Local
Heatherwood and Wexham Park FT seeks to clarify 'urgent referrals' with GPs
PERFORMANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham FT is working to clarify with GPs the definition of an “urgent referral”, its board has heard.
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HSJ Local
Nottingham University Hospitals exceeds yearly C.Diff target
PERFORMANCE: Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has already exceeded its yearly target for the number of clostridium difficile cases acquired there.