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NCUH reports £60,000 surplus for first two months of 2012-13
FINANCE: The trust reported a surplus of £60,000 for the first two months of 2012-13, but noted that this included “strategic support funding” of £4.1m.
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Mid Yorks announces reconfiguration options
STRUCTURE: Financially struggling Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust has announced rapidly developed options for service reconfiguration.
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Controversial vascular services restructure gets green light
Primary care trust cluster NHS Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral has approved a controversial plan for the reconfiguration of vascular services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
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Staff shortage closes children's ward to admissions
A children’s ward has stopped admitting patients for three weeks due to a staff shortage.
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South Warwickshire FT to redesign emergency pathways
STRUCTURE: South Warwickshire Foundation Trust is planning to spend up to £500,000 redesigning its emergency care pathways to ensure services are safe and comply with national standards.
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Stephen Childs confirmed as North East CSS director
WORKFORCE: Stephen Childs has been appointed as the managing director of North East Commissioning Support by the NHS Commissioning Board.
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NHS London approves £150k+ severance payment to very senior manager
WORKFORCE: The minutes of the strategic health authority’s remuneration committee said it had reviewed “one severance case [worth more than £150k] and approved it since the last report to the board [in March].”
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PCTs restricting access to sexual health services - report
MPs have warned the government that soem trusts are actively restricting women from accessing contraceptive services, in a new report published today.
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Three North East CCGs sharing chief officer
WORKFORCE: NHS Newcastle West CCG, NHS Newcastle North and East CCG and NHS Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group are sharing a chief officer under an interim arrangement.
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NHS London confirms £2.2m cut in mental health funding to increase cancer spend
FINANCE: The strategic health authority for the capital has confirmed that is transferring £2.2m from the bundle funding for mental health to fund its cancer programme.
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Yeovil finished year ahead of plan on surplus
FINANCE: Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust finished the year with a surplus of £993,000, £718,000 more than planned.
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South Warwickshire in deficit amid overperformance
FINANCE: South Warwickshire Foundation Trust ended month two of 2012-13 with a deficit of £457,000 - £517,000 worse than planned.
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Christie surplus £54,000 below target at end of May
FINANCE: The cancer specialist foundation trust recorded a surplus of £699,000 for the first two months of 2012-13, which was £54,000 behind its plan for the year to date, its latest finance report states.
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Royal Free extends contract with Barnet, Enfield and Haringey trust
COMMERCIAL: The north London mental health trust have won a contract to provide a liaison service in the Royal Free London’s A&E.
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Barts Health advertises £7m car-parking contract at Whipps Cross
FINANCE: The five-year contract to run the service at Whipps Cross University Hospital includes options to extend it by two years.
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Just nine CSS managing directors appointed
Just nine out of the 23 managing director posts for commissioning support services have been recruited, it is announced today.
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Hospital and paramedic staff suspended after A&E death
WORKFORCE: Eleven NHS staff have been suspended by a Midlands hospital and West Midlands Ambulance service after an A&E patient collapsed and died.
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NHS Propco could 'destabilise' local health economies, social enterprises warn
Department of Health plans to create an independent property company to take over primary care trusts’ estate are likely to have a “considerable destabilising effect on local health economies”, social enterprises have claimed.
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Surgeons in warning over old equipment
Financial constraints on the NHS could lead to doctors operating on patients with outdated equipment, surgeons have warned.
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End-of-life care pathway 'used to cut costs'
Hospitals may be withholding food and drink from older patients so they die quicker to cut costs and save on bad spaces, leading doctors have warned.