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Cornwall Partnership governance risk downgraded
PERFORMANCE: Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust’s Monitor governance rating has been downgraded to amber/red owing to Care Quality Commision concerns about services.
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Flory: commissioners' savings plans on course
Commissioners made almost 45 per cent of their planned savings in the first half of 2011-12, but the already weakened finances of NHS trusts deteriorated further in the past three months, David Flory said today.
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Francis: Mid Staffs report will aid NHS managers
The chair of the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry has outlined the areas he will focus on in his final report into the failings that allowed poor care to go unnoticed for so long at the trust.
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Exclusive: CCGs subject to extra safeguards when commissioning from GPs
Clinical commissioning groups will not need to have a doctor as their most senior officer, and will be able to commission services from local GPs subject to extra safeguards to minimise the danger of a conflict of interests.
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Exclusive: publishing FT redundancy plans could harm competitiveness, warns Monitor
Foundation trust regulator Monitor is withholding information on foundations’ forecast headcounts for coming years on grounds that news of “significant” redundancy plans could harm their competitiveness.
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London trusts club together to pursue Welsh claims
FINANCE: Moorfields Eye Hospital, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Kingston and Barts are pursuing the Welsh Health Boards for unpaid bills, a board paper reveals.
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DH banned CQC from recruiting inspectors
The Department of Health must share responsibility for the failings of the Care Quality Commission, a report by the National Audit Office has found.
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Nicholson: electoral cycle means we have to do service changes in next 18 months
Sir David Nicholson has said the “electoral cycle” means NHS managers were “much more likely to get through” service changes in the next 18 months than later in the parliament.
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Pension talks set to continue on Friday
The government and health unions are set to hold their latest round of talks today over changes to pensions in the wake of yesterday’s strike.
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CCG management could learn from schools - Lansley
The health secretary has said clinical commissioning groups should learn from boards of governors in schools how to meet statutory responsibilities without spending large sums on running costs.
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Operating framework piles pressure on hospital sector
The NHS’s financial plans for 2012-13 will further concentrate pressure on acute providers and could force a wave of hasty mergers, experts have warned.
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Private health market faces referral to the Competition Commission
The Office for Fair Trading has “provisionally” decided to refer the private healthcare market to the Competition Commission, after finding a “number of features” that could distort or restrict competition.
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More funding pledged to help oncology centre across the Mersey
STRUCTURE: Commissioners in Merseyside have pledged £6.5m a year towards a proposed relocation to central Liverpool of the Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology Foundation Trust’s main facility.
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Commissioners require 'significant help' with mental health tariff
Commissioners will struggle to implement an operating framework requirement to pay for mental health services under tariff without “significant help”, according to the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network.
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Lansley defends pensions offer but says still space for negotiation
The health secretary has said he hoped for a resolution to the pensions dispute which this week triggered the biggest public sector walkout in generations “by the end of this year”.
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Solent trust slipping against surplus target
FINANCE: Solent NHS Trust is struggling to meet its surplus target despite higher than expected levels of income, as it is overspending on pay.
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UHB to become 'magnet' for pharma money and clinical research after hook-up with uni
COMMERCIAL: University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust and the University of Birmingham has today announced a joint working agreement to be known as Birmingham Health Partners (BHP).
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London Ambulance Service calls in police support during strike
Police helped ambulances attending emergencies last night after thousands of NHS workers went on strike over public sector pensions.
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DH exerts pressure to merge on smaller CCGs
Smaller clinical commissioning groups are coming under increasing pressure to merge after the Department of Health announced a tight administrative allowance and a requirement for them to match local authority boundaries “as far as possible”.
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Patients' right to alternative provider should be 'publicised'
Commissioners must “publicise” a patient’s right to an alternative provider if a trust is at risk of missing the 18-week referral-to-treatment time target.