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Buckinghamshire fails on 18 week target
PERFORMANCE: Buckinghamshire commissioners are struggling to meet the 18 week referral to treatment target.
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Cambridgeshire wants to delay Monitor application
STRUCTURE: Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust wants to move back its groundbreaking application for foundation trust status - but is meeting opposition from the Department of Health.
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George Eliot 'concern' at high mortality rate
PERFORMANCE: An external review into mortality rates has been launched at George Eliot Hopsital, which has identified its persistently high death rate as “a concern”.
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Derby City draws up HR outsourcing spec
COMMERCIAL: A new specification for outsourced HR transactional support has been developed, to be procured from April 2012.
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Mid Essex introduces restrictions on discretionary spending
FINANCE: NHS Mid Essex has introduced restrictions on discretionary spending as it struggles to deliver QIPP savings.
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Oxford trust overspends on PCT contract
FINANCE: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust over-performed by £10.9m – or 7.5 per cent – against its contract with Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust in the first six months of 2011-12.
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Skills for Health to work with Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals on skill mix
WORKFORCE: The sector skills council for health will be working with the east London trust on a “systematic skill mix review, one of the key actions from the CQC action plan”.
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'Outliers' mean Epsom and St Helier's private patient unit makes £409k loss
FINANCE: A finance report to the trust’s January board meeting said: “Private patient income continues its adverse trend due to outliers in the private patient unit.”
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Bedford faces £2.2m deficit unless action taken
FINANCE: Bedford Hospital Trust could end the year with a £2.2m deficit if it does not cut back, the board heard.
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'Significant overspend' in unplanned care at Chesterfield Royal
FINANCE: There is a “significant overspend” in unplanned care at Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust of £945,000.
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Derbyshire County predicts higher spending on Sherwood Forest services
FINANCE: NHS Derbyshire County’s forecasted out-turn for Sherwood Forest Hospitals has deteriorated and is now an overspend of £561,000.
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Kent PCTs launch phone app in bid to cut teenage pregnancies
PERFORMANCE: A mobile phone app has been launched as part of efforts to improve sexual health and reduce unplanned teenage pregnancies in Kent.
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Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust revises down savings target
FINANCE: The north London mental health trust has revised down its CIP target for 2011-12 from £15.9m to £14.1m
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'Inadequate monitoring' of patients tranquilised at South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s risk register noted the potential for “patients coming to harm as a result of inadequate clinical monitoring after rapid tranquillisation”.
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Epsom and St Helier at pressure ulcer threshold with third of year to go
PERFORMANCE: The south London/Surrey borders trust had a 2011-12 target of only 20 grade three pressure ulcers for the year, a target it risks missing as two incidents this month took the year-to-date total to 20.
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Mental health trusts merge
STRUCTURE: Two mental health trusts in East Anglia merged at the beginning of the month to form Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust.
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Forty-seven complain about healthcare in Suffolk's prisons
PERFORMANCE: Prisoners unable to get their teeth fixed were behind some of the 47 complaints in just two months about prison healthcare in Suffolk.
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Predicted primary care overspend improves in Derbyshire
FINANCE: The current forecast year end position for primary care is a £1.3m overspend.
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'Workplace champions' boost Suffolk's anti-smoking drive
SERVICES: Workplace champions are being recruited in firms in Suffolk to encourage their colleagues to give up smoking.
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South West London and St George's integrated to make site sell-off decision
STRUCTURE: The mental health trust published a draft business plan produced by KPMG which said a full business plan would be needed to decide whether the trust should cut down from five inpatient sites to two.