Latest news – Page 1105
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Central Manchester CCG plans £4.6m QIPP savings
FINANCE: The clinical commissioning group has developed quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) plans for savings totalling £4.6m in 2012-13.
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Kent prisons adopt new rehab service
COMMERCIAL: Kent has backed a new drug and alcohol treatment model to stop addiction and re-offending.
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Anti smoking push in Sussex schools
STRUCTURE: Sussex Community NHS Trust stop smoking service has launched a stop smoking education resource for teachers delivering personal, social and health education lessons to year 8-11.
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Exclusive: fear over Olympic drugs overseas sell-on
Some pharmacies in London may request additional drug supplies during the Olympics only to sell them off overseas for profit, it has been claimed.
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Birmingham and Solihull faces £16.9m QIPP shortfall
FINANCE: Commissioners in Birmingham and Solihull have reported a £16.9m gap in their efficiency savings plans, accounting for 29 per cent of the total for this year.
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SW pay consortium to press ahead with Agenda for Change plans
A consortium of 19 NHS trusts in the South West has met for the first time and agreed to press ahead with plans to break away from Agenda for Change.
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Data error trust reviews deaths
An trust is probing whether its poor record keeping was responsible for 25 patient deaths.
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Exclusive: Commissioning board appoints long term conditions lead
NHS Lincolnshire commissioning director Martin McShane has been appointed the NHS Commissioning Board’s lead for long term conditions.
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Bowel campaign scuppers attempts to cut diagnostic waits
PERFORMANCE: Long diagnostic waits in Birmingham and Solihull have been blamed on the Heart of England Foundation Trust and a national bowel screening drive.
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Ambulance handovers miss target in Birmingham and Solihull
PERFORMANCE: All providers serving the Birmingham and Solihull primary care trust cluster failed to hit the required standard for ambulance handover times.
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DH raises mortality concerns with Hull and East Yorks
PERFORMANCE: The Department of Health has raised concerns about mortality and finance with Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust.
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Southampton will keep children's heart surgery
STRUCTURE: Children’s heart surgery services will be kept at the University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust after a national reconfiguration programme recommended three other units in England lose their services.
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Ex-NHS staff held in payment probe
Two former NHS employees have been arrested by detectives investigating allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials, Scotland Yard said.
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Nominations open for Western Sussex’s first governor elections
STRUCTURE: Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust is asking its 7,500 public members to stand for election to its first Council of Governors.
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Doncaster physios sent to Olympics
PERFORMANCE: Two senior physiotherapists at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust have been chosen from hundreds of applicants to provide high-level sports-specific rehabilitation and advice to British and international athletes during the 2012 Olympic Games.
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Calderdale CCG gets authorisation process underway
STRUCTURE: NHS Rotherham CCG, which covers the area of Rotherham PCT, has submitted its authorisation application.
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Bradford Hospitals retains amber-red governance rating
PERFORMANCE: Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust remains rated “amber-red” by Monitor for governance.
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Monitor maintains amber-red rating for Northern Lincolnshire and Goole
PERFORMANCE: Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Foundation Trust remains rated “amber-red” by Monitor for governance.
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'Amber-red' rating for Newcastle Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust received an “amber-red” rating from Monitor for its governance standards.
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Calderdale CCG sumbits authorisation application
STRUCTURE: Calderdale CCG, which covers the area of Calderdale PCT, has submitted its authorisation application.