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Newcastle FT board focuses on community services
STRUCTURE: The board is expecting close involvement in the “problematical and time-consuming” task of vertical integration with the community services from Newcastle Primary Care Trust.
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NHS Hartlepool cluster names executive team
STRUCTURE: NHS Hartlepool has clustered with NHS Middlesbrough, NHS Redcar and Cleveland and NHS Stockton-on-Tees, and several senior appointments have been made.
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NHS Middlesbrough cluster names executive team
STRUCTURE: NHS Middlesbrough has clustered with NHS Hartlepool, NHS Redcar and Cleveland and NHS Stockton-on-Tees, and several senior appointments have been made.
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NHS Redcar and Cleveland cluster names executive team
STRUCTURE: NHS Redcar and Cleveland has clustered with NHS Hartlepool, NHS Middlesbrough and NHS Stockton-on-Tees, and several senior appointments have been made.
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NHS Stockton-on-Tees cluster names executive team
STRUCTURE: NHS Hartlepool has clustered with NHS Middlesbrough, NHS Redcar and Cleveland and NHS Stockton-on-Tees, and several senior appointments have been made.
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Gateshead FT £400,000 behind plan
FINANCE: The trust had a planned surplus to date of £3,056,700 at month seven, however the actual position is a surplus of £2,619,000 giving an overall deficit against plan of £437,400.
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Framework for FT no-hopers 'in the coming weeks'
The Department of Health’s managing director of provider development has said the new arrangements for getting non-foundation trusts authorised will be published soon.
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Health secretary to have extensive powers to 'prescribe' public health functions
The Health and Social Care Bill includes wide and varied powers for the secretary of state to dictate council’s public health activities.
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Central grip tightens under 'independence' bill
The government’s ambition to liberate the NHS has been called into question after the Health and Social Care Bill published last week apparently granted wide ranging powers of intervention to the health secretary.
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Health Bill maintains light touch on consortia
The health bill published today maintains a light touch approach to requirements for commissioning consortia, but appears to leave wriggle room for more prescription in future.
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Commissioning transition to cost £1.2bn
The transfer of commissioning to consortia and the NHS commissioning board will cost £1.2bn in the next two years, according to the Department of Health’s impact assessment of the Health and Social Care Bill.
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DH ordered to disclose cost of swine flu vaccine
The Department of Health has been ordered to release data on the costs of last year’s swine flu vaccination programme, after it failed to comply fully with a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Public health agenda more important than NHS, says Lansley
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has criticised the “obsessive” focus on commissioning consortia, ahead of the publication of the health and social care bill later today.
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'Stalinist' controls grip expiring SHAs
The Department of Health has handed the NHS a set of 116 performance measures and 24 further priorities for 2011-12, as its “Stalinist controls” on the transition process become clear.
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Innovation Expo to profile QIPP programme
Sir David Nicholson and health minister Earl Howe are spearheading the Department of Health’s support for the 2011 Healthcare Innovation Expo, which takes place in London’s Docklands on 9-10 March.
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Nicholson: NHS commissioning board will step in if consortia falter
In the first interview since his appointment as chief executive of the NHS Commissioning Board, Sir David Nicholson has outlined the measures it could take against poorly performing commissioning consortia.
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Earl Howe: Contestability is 'not alien to integration'
Health minister Earl Howe has denied there is any conflict between opening up healthcare provision to more competition and encouraging collaboration between providers.
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New freedoms set out for NHS foundation trusts
Mergers will be considerably easier for foundation trusts under the rules set out in the health bill.
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Do GPs have 'the balls' to decommission hospital care?
GPs must not “shirk” the challenge of downsizing NHS hospitals, GP and health commentator Phil Hammond argues in this week’s HSJ.
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Major questions remain over commissioning, say insiders
Major questions remain over the successful formation of commissioning consortia, despite the fast spread of “pathfinders”, according to those overseeing the process.