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GP practice closes in Surrey
STRUCTURE: A GP practice has shut after unsuccessful contract negotiations, NHS Surrey has announced.
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Independent advice service for NHS patients launches
A new independent advice service for NHS patients in Scotland begins its work today.
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Virgin community services deal confirmed
COMMERCIAL: Virgin Care (formerly Assura Medical) has now signed a contract with NHS Surrey to deliver community services across much of the county from 2012 to 2017.
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UPDATED: Staff keep NHS pensions as Virgin's Surrey deal goes through
Virgin Care has signed a £500m community services contract with NHS Surrey under an arrangement which will see staff employed by a social enterprise.
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Wiltshire cluster services to merge with Berkshire/Gloucestershire CSS
STRUCTURE: Talks are already under way to further expand the NHS commissioning support service already stretching from Berkshire to Gloucestershire.
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Barnet and Chase Farm face large QIPP disinvestment
FINANCE: The north London acute faces a disinvestment under the QIPP programme of £42m over the next three years
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MP calls for probe into regulator following Morecambe Bay scandal
PERFORMANCE: An MP has called for an inquiry into foundation trust regulator Monitor after its chairman admitted it was “very likely” there were deeper problems present at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay when it was granted FT status.
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MPs find CQC is 'not up to the job'
The Care Quality Commission is not up to the job of registering 10,000 GP practices during the next year and should not take on responsibility for regulating IVF services, MPs have warned.
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North Middlesex Hospital faces cluster disinvestment of £20.6m over the next three years
FINANCE: The north London acute faces a disinvestment under the North Central London cluster’s QIPP programme of £20.6m over the next three years.
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Assura win Coventry community services contract
STRUCTURE: Assura Coventry have won a contract to provide the last remaining primary care trust-run community service centres in the Arden cluster area.
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Caseload fear emerges in 'inspection' of CQC
Staff working for the Care Quality Commission are demoralised and fear making a mistake because of impossible workloads, a union survey has found.
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Privately-run centre breaches 18-week standard
Patients are being diverted away from a privately-run treatment centre because the 18-week referral-to-treatment standard is being breached.
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Commissioners plan £28.6m disinvestment from UCLH
FINANCE: The central London acute and specialist trust faces a disinvestment under the North Central London cluster’s QIPP programme of £28.6m over the next three years.
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‘Block contract’ loses Southport and Ormskirk Hospital £1.6m
FINANCE: A ‘block contract’ with the trust’s main commissioners has lost it around £1.6m for the year to date, its latest finance report suggests.
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BMA warns of first doctor industrial action in decades
The first ballot of doctors on industrial action since 1975 will go ahead within weeks if the government does not rethink the major changes it is making to NHS pensions.
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Royal Free authorised as Foundation Trust
STRUCTURE: The north London acute was today authorised as a foundation trust by Monitor.
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George Eliot Trust seeks to solve death rate problem
George Eliot Hospital trust has launched a plan to combat its “poor” mortality rate.
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Five Arden CCGs merge into three
STRUCTURE: Coventry and Warwickshire’s five clinical commissioning groups have been merged into three after a strategic health authority risk assessment flagged concerns over the proposed configuration.
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Whittington Health faces a £19.8m disinvestment from its commissioners
FINANCE: The north London integrated care organisation faces a disinvestment under the North Central London cluster’s QIPP programme of £19.8m over the next three years.
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£1.3m overspend forecast for Eastern Cheshire clinical commissioners
FINANCE: Eastern Cheshire clinical commissioning group was forecasting a 2011-12 overspend of £1.3m at the end of December, its latest finance report shows.