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Dementia care initiatives trumpeted in East Sussex
PERFORMANCE: East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has highlighted the improvements it is making in care for dementia patients.
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Top 40 ranking for Frimley Park
PERFORMANCE: Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been named among the 40 best in the country for the eleventh time by health intelligence company CHKS.
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Medway FT rated in top 40 list again
PERFORMANCE: Medway NHS Foundation Trust was named one of the 40 top hospitals in the country at the annual CHKS 40 Top Hospitals Awards.
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Heart success for Medway
PERFORMANCE: The number of people dying of heart attacks in Medway has fallen by 77 per cent over the last two decades, according to latest public health data.
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Foundation trust criticises NHS London's nurse workforce planning
WORKFORCE: London’s largest foundation trust has criticised NHS London’s policy on nurse workforce planning.
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FTs join forces on pathology services
STRUCTURE: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay FT and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals FT have announced plans to work together to develop pathology services in Cumbria and Lancashire.
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Exclusive: Plans for national communications service scrapped
Plans to set up a national communications service for clinical commissioning groups have been abandoned, HSJ has learnt.
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Strike threat as paid tea breaks scrapped at Cambridge
Staff at Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust could be balloted on industrial action in a row over pay cuts.
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New nursing director for Tameside Hospital
WORKFORCE: Tameside Hospital has appointed a new director of nursing.
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Leicester transcription service goes to India
WORKFORCE: Medical transcription services at University Hospitals of Leicester Trust are to be outsourced to India with the initial loss of 12 posts, it has been revealed.
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Increased sleeping pill use costs NHS £50m
The NHS spent nearly £50m on sleeping pills last year, a sharp rise on previous costs, new figures reveal.
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Work on new women and children’s unit ahead of schedule
STRUCTURE: Building work on a new £44m women and children’s unit at the Royal Oldham Hospital is ahead of schedule, say managers.
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Royal Wolverhampton gets simulated ward
WORKFORCE: Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals Trust has opened the first simulation hospital ward in the Black Country at a cost of £550,000.
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Norfolk and Suffolk FT wins £17m contract
COMMERCIAL: Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has been awarded a £17.7m contract to run the Suffolk Wellbeing Service (SWS) aimed at helping patients manage stress, anxiety and depression.
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Consultation on new GP centre
STRUCTURE: NHS North Staffordshire has launched a public consultation to ask the local community to help design a new primary care centre.
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Waiting times risk rating worsens at Shropshire's orthopaedic trust
More than a third of admitted patients at Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital FT had to wait longer than 18 weeks to be treated.
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Final days of survey on Leicestershire community services
The East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group is asking for views on elective care services such as out-patient appointments, minor injury units and minor surgery.
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Contingency funds secure surplus at Birmingham and Solihull MH trust
FINANCE: Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust achieved a £400,000 surplus in 2011-12, but only after releasing £2.2m of contingency funding.
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Circle publishes Hinchingbrooke patient feedback
Hinchingbrooke Hospital - the first acute NHS hospital to be run by a private company - is collecting feedback from every patient and publishing it on its website.
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COPD project scoops best practice award
PERFORMANCE: A project to help Wirral patients with chronic lung diseases manage their own care has won a regional award for best practice.