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George Eliot off target on surplus
FINANCE: George Eliot Hospital Trust has reported an £8,000 surplus - £842,000 worse than planned and in psite of year-to-date income being £1.3m higher than expected.
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Rising demand leads to rising agency spend at George Eliot
WORKFORCE: High levels of demand has led to a rise in demand for agency staff at George Eliot Hospital Trust.
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Dorset County Hospital turns around finances
FINANCE: Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust has achieved significantly improved risk rating from Monitor, a year after having being give the lowesrt rating for both finance and governance.
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Lincolnshire comes bottom of SHA table for stroke standard
PERFORMANCE: NHS Lincolnshire is reporting the worst performance in NHS Midlands and East against an important stroke metric,
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Central Manchester FT takeover of Trafford Healthcare cleared for 1 April
STRUCTURE: The trust’s takeover by Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust has been cleared to go through at the end of this month, the acquiring trust reported this afternoon.
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Monitor: governors should step in earlier to address problems
Monitor’s chief operating officer has told foundation trust governors they should step in earlier if there are quality problems at their trust.
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Analysed: acute reconfiguration in North West London
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of the key issues facing the NHS’s major health economies. This week: acute reconfiguration in north-west London.
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Exclusive: regulator mulls new squad of fixers for most-troubled trusts
Struggling foundation trusts may be forced to take on new Monitor troubleshooters who will advise trust boards and inform the regulator about weak board members, HSJ has discovered.
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Plans will see A&Es cut in NW London
Consultation plans on the future shape of accident and emergency services in north west London will be outlined this summer, with around three departments likely to close as a result.
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Fewer staff would recommend NHS job
The proportion of NHS staff who would recommend their organisation as a place to work is steadily dropping, latest survey results reveal.
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Labour forces emergency Health Bill debate
Labour has mounted a last-ditch bid to keep the government’s controversial NHS reforms off the statute book after the legislation cleared the House of Lords.
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Wye Valley facing serious in-year financial pressures
FINANCE: Serious underachievement of planned savings, combined with expenditure pressures and lower than forecast income levels, have led to significant in-year financial pressures.
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Pressure on Worcestershire Acute over FT ambitions
STRUCTURE: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust will be subject to “first level national escalation” after withdrawing from the Monitor assessment process.
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Hospital in children's heart care row 'delaying' urgent improvements
STRUCTURE: A leading hospital has been accused of risking delays to much-needed improvements in children’s heart care across England by taking “premature” legal action and “putting a spanner in the works”.
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Philippa Slinger confirmed as Heatherwood and Wexham Park CEO
WORKFORCE: Philippa Slinger has been appointed as permanent chief executive of Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust.
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Sharp fall in staff satisfaction ranking for Alder Hey
WORKFORCE: The foundation trust fell more than 10 places in the national rankings for staff job satisfaction, the latest annual NHS staff survey has shown.
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Chair appointed for BANES and Wiltshire cluster
WORKFORCE: NHS Wiltshire chair Tony Barron has been appointed to lead the Wiltshire and Bath and North East Somerset primary care trust cluster.
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Children's A&E opens at Basildon
STRUCTURE: A purpose-built children’s A&E department has opened at Basildon University Hospital.
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Central Manchester FT ranked among worst in 2011 NHS staff survey
WORKFORCE: The foundation trust has remained ranked among the worst in the England for more than a third of the measures tracked by the annual NHS staff survey, the newly published 2011 results show.
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Staff at BANES social enterprise motivated and engaged
WORKFORCE: Sirona Care and Health, the new social enterprise delivering health and social care in Bath and North East Somerset, scored above avearge on staff engagement in the NHS staff survey.