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Barnsley Hospital planning annual 'innovation day'
RESEARCH: Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust is planning to hold an annual “innovation day”.
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NHS North Yorkshire & York just breaks even for 2011-12
FINANCE: NHS North Yorkshire and York narrowly finished 2011-12 in financial balance, but has been risk-rated red by NHS North of England for the year.
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Kingston Hospital achieves caesarian target after renegotiating key performance indicator
PERFORMANCE: The south west London acute hospital trust has confirmed it will not face a penalty from commissioners on its C-section rate.
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St George's breast cancer service wins award
PERFORMANCE: The breast cancer service team at the south west London acute won an NHS Improvement award for reducing the amount of time that patients spend in hospital following surgery.
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London mental health clinicians win places on fellowship programme
WORKFORCE: Two staff from South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust have won places on the Clinical Leadership Fellowship Programme run by the NHS National Leadership Academy.
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Government announces extra mental health funding for veterans
War veterans and their families are to be offered greater help with their mental wellbeing, it has been announced.
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Great Ormond Street tenders for renal support IT system
COMMERCIAL: The central London specialist trust has placed a tender for a system to manage information about children with chronic kidney disease.
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Kingston Hospital record financial risk rating of three for 2011-12
FINANCE: The south west London acute hospital trust recorded a financial risk rating of three on the metrics Monitor uses to assess a trust’s stability.
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Nottingham draws up death advice for children
PERFORMANCE: Parents are being given help and advice on how to talk to their children about death and serious illness by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Oxford trust plans to move cancer services to new centre
STRUCTURE: Oxford University Hospitals Trust is planning to move its head and neck cancer services from John Radcliffe Hospital to nearby Churchill Hospital as part of plans to develop a major cancer centre on the site.
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Senior NHS figures shun 'poisoned chalice' CQC job
The head of the General Social Care Council and a Department of Health director general are among those believed to have applied to become chief executive of the Care Quality Commission.
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Lansley confirms NICE will no longer take funding decisions
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence will no longer directly decide whether the NHS funds a drug under the proposed new pricing system, health secretary Andrew Lansley has confirmed.
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Lansley against 'slamming together' health and social care
The health secretary has reiterated his opposition to forcing mergers between health and social care commissioners, ahead of the publication of a white paper on the issue.
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Trusts eye capital gains from surplus NHS land sales
NHS organisations plan to place surplus land equivalent to 350 Trafalgar Squares on the market for housing development in the next few years, latest figures from the Department of Health reveal.
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Trusts needing bailout support almost double in 2011-12
Thirty-one trusts received bailout payments in 2011-12, information released to HSJ under the Freedom of Information Act reveals.
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Nurses and midwives face 60pc hike in registration fee
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has proposed increasing the annual registrants’ fee to £120 from the start of next year.
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Diabetes audit reveals thousands of errors in one week
Medication errors occur in the treatment of 3,700 inpatients with diabetes in hospitals in England and Wales each week, according to the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit.
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Income up for Southampton trust as demand exceeds plan
FINANCE: University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust was paid £21.5m more than expected in 2011-12 as demand for services exceeded plan.
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Six ill health retirements cost NHS £800,000
WORKFORCE: There were six early retirements due to ill health at University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust in the last six months of 2011-12.
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Southampton trust misses A&E target
PERFORMANCE: University Hospital Southampton fell short of its accident and emergency waiting time target in March.