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Amber/red rating for governance at Dudley
PERFORMANCE: Dudley Group of Hospitals Foundation Trust has been amber/red rated by Monitor for governance due to higher than planned levels of Clostridium difficile and outstanding CQC compliance actions.
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Hospitals spending less than £3 on patient meals
NHS hospitals are spending as little as £2.57 to feed and water patients each day - or 86 pence a meal, new figures reveal today.
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Basildon unlikely to hit 98 per cent A&E target
PERFORMANCE: A&E performance against the four hour target stands at 97.8 per cent in the year to date and is unlikely to reach 98 per cent by the end of the year, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust’s board has been told.
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Greater Manchester cluster proposes responsibility for networks’ funding
STRUCTURE: The NHS Greater Manchester ‘cluster’ of primary care trusts has proposed that it take over responsibility funds held to support the Making it Better reconfiguration of the city’s maternity services.
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Leicester, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire form £10m sports and exercise centre
STRUCTURE: Three trusts have linked up with universities to form a £10m centre for sport and exercise medicine.
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Future Forum: all commissioners should consider NHS and social care shared budgets
Commissioners should be able to override current payment rules and share budgets with local authorities in order to accelerate service integration, according to the NHS Future Forum.
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Trusts rewarded with 'quality premium' under Future Forum plan
Trusts’ budgets will be top-sliced to fund a “quality premium” for organisations providing high quality training for NHS staff, under a proposal in a government-commissioned report.
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Budding ICO aiming for 'maximum integration'
STRUCTURE: The health economy in North Somerset is hoping to move away from payment by results to achieve “maximum integration”, HSJ has been told.
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NHS stuck in 'information dark ages', says Future Forum
The NHS needs a culture change to drag itself out of the “information dark ages” and avoid reputational damage, the NHS Future Forum has said.
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Media coverage sees complaints double at troubled trust
PERFORMANCE: The east London trust has seen an average of 83 complaints a month since last January, compared to an average of 44 the previous month.
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'Warm words' insufficient to drive integration, ministers warned
One of the leading proponents of integrated care has called for the government to go further than its “warm words” made in response to the NHS Future Forum.
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Acute trusts merge to form Hampshire Hospitals
STRUCTURE: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Foundation Trust has taken over Winchester and Eastleigh Trust to become Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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NHS chief executives should be 'held to account' for improving staff health
Senior managers should be held to account for improving the health and wellbeing of their workforce, the NHS Future Forum has recommended.
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'Common principles' for commissioning support offer emerging in Birmingham and Solihull
FINANCE: “Common principles” on the commissioning services likely to “shape the offer” to clinical commissioning groups in the NHS Birmingham and Solihull cluster are emerging, papers say.
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Legal aid cuts threaten added cost to NHS
The government’s planned cuts to legal aid in clinical negligence cases could cost the NHS almost three times more than is saved by the Ministry of Justice, a report has claimed.
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A&E admissions metric set to cost Barnet and Chase Farm £1m
PERFORMANCE: The north central London hospital trust is breaching the commissioner-set targets for converting A&E attendances into admissions.
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Birmingham and Solihull cluster's control total reduced by £4m
FINANCE: NHS West Midlands has agreed to reduce the Birmingham and Solihull primary care trust cluster’s control total from £6m to £2m.
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Mersey Care books £5.4m cost reductions to end of November
FINANCE: At the end of November 2011 the mental health trust had recorded cost improvement programme savings of £5.4m, against a target of £8m for the full year, 2011-12.
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LOS down at Torbay Care Trust
PERFORMANCE: The number of patients remaining in community hospitals run by Torbay Care Trust for more than 30 days is at its lowest level for two months, Decmber’s report to the board revealed.
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Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospital staff 'concern' at midwives leaving after training
WORKFORCE: Staff at the east London hospital trust complained to managers that midwives recruited in Ireland and Italy had left shortly after being brought “up to standard”.