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Burton Hospitals staff vote on bank holiday

2011-02-08T17:40:00Z

WORKFORCE: Burton Hospitals Foundation Trust is asking employees to vote on whether the royal wedding should be treated as a bank holiday.

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Southampton plan to delegate urgent care to city-wide consortium

2011-02-08T17:34:00Z

STRUCTURE: Southampton City PCT has plans to delegate £80m in urgent care commissioning to a single commissioning consortium covering the patch.

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Berkshire mental health FT in surplus

2011-02-08T16:47:00Z

FINANCE: Berkshire Healthcare FT expects to finish the year with a surplus of £663,000, just below its plan for the year.

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NHS Ealing cancels board meeting and can't say when it will next meet

2011-02-08T16:37:00Z

STRUCTURE: A primary care trust cancelled its January board meeting and couldn’t say when it would next meet.

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Ambulance turnaround times rise to nearly two hours at Tameside Hospital FT over Christmas

2011-02-08T16:36:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Ambulance turnaround times at the Tameside General Hospital over Christmas and New Year were among the worst in the North West, the ambulance service reported.

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Salisbury FT offers services for new trauma centre

2011-02-08T16:24:00Z

STRUCTURE: Salisbury Foundation Trust could provide plastic surgery for a new major trauma centre at Southampton University Hospitals Trust.

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South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust claims SHA is pleased with its progress towards FT status

2011-02-08T16:23:00Z

STRUCTURE: A mental health trust is confident it can attain foundation trust status after being told by the strategic health authority is was not an “at risk” trust

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Salisbury FT in overperformance dispute with PCTs

2011-02-08T16:10:00Z

FINANCE: Salisbury FT has been issued with performance notices, warning notices and and exception report by NHS Wiltshire.

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Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust predicting surplus

2011-02-08T16:08:00Z

FINANCE: A trust is predicting it will meet its planned surplus of £3.3m at year end, but needs to find an extra £700,000 in savings.

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NHS North Lincolnshire missing target for number of staff who have changed post

2011-02-08T16:08:00Z

WORKFORCE: The trust’ set itself a target of having only one per cent of staff changing position, but recorded a figure of three per cent, according to its latest board papers.

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Leicestershire Partnership Trust postpones FT bid

2011-02-08T16:06:00Z

STRUCTURE: Leicestershire Partnership Trust has decided to postpone its foundation trust application following a meeting with Monitor.

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Salford Royal scores highly in cancer patient experience survey

2011-02-08T16:00:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The foundation has achieved some of the best scores in the country in the Department of Health’s largest ever survey of the experiences of cancer patients.

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Royal Bolton remains red rated for mortality, but shows improvement

2011-02-08T15:51:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Mortality rates at the foundation remain higher than expected, but have improved significantly in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

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Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals FT consults on future

2011-02-08T15:49:00Z

STRUCTURE: The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals FT has launched a public consultation on the future of its estate.

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Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS FT leads on money saving scheme

2011-02-08T15:45:00Z

FINANCE: A project led by the chief executive of Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust has identified potential for £200m of savings.

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NHS Oxfordshire health system 'failing'

2011-02-08T15:43:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The health system in the NHS Oxfordshire area has been judged as failing by South Central SHA.

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Northamptonshire Healthcare breaching falls CQUINs

2011-02-08T15:39:00Z

FINANCE: Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust breached its severe falls CQUIN targets in quarters two and three, resulting in a loss of income of £38,072 on both occasions.

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North West Ambulance Service battered by 999 calls surge, snow, and slow hospitals

2011-02-08T15:35:00Z

PERFORMANCE: An unprecedented surge of emergency calls over Christmas and New Year has left the trust with huge challenges in meeting its Category A response times target for 2010/11.

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Sheffield FT apologises over nil by mouth death

2011-02-08T15:29:00Z

PERFORMANCE: A hospital trust has apologised to a family under an out-of-court settlement, after a “nil by mouth” patient was wrongly given food and fluids, then developed pneumonia and died.

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Only third of head and neck cancer patients treated within 62 days

2011-02-08T15:18:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Royal Wolverhampton Hospital Trust is treating only a third of patients with head and neck cancer within 62 days of referal.