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St Helens and Knowsley exceeds annual MRSA threshold
PERFORMANCE: The trust has already exceeded its target maximum number of MRSA cases for 2012-13, NHS Merseyside’s August performance report shows.
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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals forecast to overperform by £8.1m
FINANCE: Lancashire primary care trusts are forecasting an overspend of £8.1m on their contracts with Blackpool Teaching Hospitals in 2012.
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Parking improvements at Worcestershire hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Plans to improve care parking at Kidderminster Hospital and Treatment Centre and the Worcester Royal Hospital have been approved.
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Cambridge reduces budget deficit
FINANCE: Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has reduced its budget deficit, its finance director told the board this month.
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Commissioners forecast East Lancashire Hospitals overspend of £8.6m
FINANCE: Lancashire commissioners had overspent their budgets for the trust by £2.7m by the end of July, and were forecasting an £8.6m overspend for the full year 2012-13.
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Aintree appeals against third recorded MRSA case
PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust currently has three recorded cases of MRSA for 2012-13, against an annual target of no more than two, commissioner board papers report.
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Manchester’s major shake-up revealed
HSJ can reveal details of a major review of healthcare across Greater Manchester which makes the clinical case for a radical redesign of services. It is believed this could prompt some leaders to argue for the removal of acute surgery from four hospitals.
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Burnham vows to repeal Health Act
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has promised to repeal the controversial Health Act should Labour win the next election, scheduled for 2015.
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London clusters behind on QIPP savings
Most London primary care trust clusters were behind on their savings plans at the end of the first quarter of this year. The figures were revealed in an internal NHS London document on the progress of local efficiency programmes.
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Flory: trusts still face April 2014 target for FT status
NHS Trust Development Authority chief executive David Flory insists there has been “no change” to the policy of driving trusts through the foundation trust pipeline by April 2014.
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BMA elects new consultant chair
The British Medical Association has announced Paul Flynn, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Swansea, has been elected as new chair of its consultants committee
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Legal challenge to Virgin's children's services contract
COMMERCIAL: A primary care trust’s decision to award a £132m contract for children’s services to Virgin Care is to be challenged in court next week.
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Ward rounds being neglected - RCP/RCN
Short term gains from reducing ward rounds are outweighed by the improvements they bring to patient safety and timely discharge, according to clinical leaders.
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Private acute admissions hit record level
Surgical admissions by independent hospitals have hit a record high - driven by NHS admissions rather than spending by private patients - according to a new report.
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Gas technique used to kill hospital bug
Scientists have invented a new way to destroy a bacterium which killed four babies in hospitals in Northern Ireland.
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Hunt cautious on NHS spending plans
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said he will not make any commitments to future increases in health spending.
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North Manchester CCG picks reverend as lay chair
STRUCTURE: North Manchester CCG has picked Tim Presswood, a lay member and minister of a baptist church, as its chairman.
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United Lincolnshire chief executive resigns
WORKFORCE: United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust chief executive Andrew North has announced he will be leaving the role at the end of November for personal reasons.
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Cumbria CCG to buy support from North East CSU
COMMERCIAL: The NHS Commissioning Board has finalised commissioning support arrangements in Cumbria and Lancashire.
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Serco questions 'bullish' forecasts for community services growth
The managing director of outsourcing giant Serco’s health business has cast doubt on “bullish” forecasts of a rapid expansion of private sector provision of NHS community services.