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East Anglian LD units to trial staff uniform
WORKFORCE: Staff at two small units run by Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust are to wear a uniform of blue polo shirts for a trail period.
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COPD community clinics launched in Beds
STRUCTURE: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients in Bedfordshire are being offer support closer to home in a bid to reduce emergency admissions.
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£4m for integrated care in Leicestershire County
FINANCE: NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland, along with the Eastern Leicestershire CCG, is to receive £4m from the Department of Health to redevelop integrated primary, community and mental health services.
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Worcestershire Acute Hospitals agrees deal with commissioners
FINANCE: The renegotiating of contracts with commissioners has seen Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust report an in month surplus of £199,000 at the end of January, reducing the year to date deficit to £781,000.
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Birmingham Women's to get £3.2m to expand capacity
FINANCE: Birmingham Women’s Foundation Trust is set to receive £3.2m to spend on increasing maternity capacity.
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Royal Wolverhampton's QIPP scheme gets £3m boost
FINANCE: The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals Trust is to receive £3m of central money to spend on a heat and power plant to support Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention targets.
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Monitor wanted James Paget interim chief in place sooner
WORKFORCE: Monitor wanted an interim chief executive in place earlier than proposed at James Paget University Hospitals Foundation Trust, it has been revealed.
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New Cromer hospital opens for business
STRUCTURE: A new hospital on the Norfolk coast has opened its doors to the first patients.
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A&E waits too long at James Paget
PERFORMANCE: Patients are waiting longer than they should be in the A&E department at the James Paget University Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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Planned angioplasty moves to Ipswich Hospital
STRUCTURE: Patients needing planned angioplasty will soon be able to have it at Ipswich Hospital, rather than having to travel to a region centre.
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CUH unveils new chair
WORKFORCE: Jane Ramsey is to be the new chair of Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust, succeeding Dr Mary Archer.
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James Paget to tender audit contract
COMMERCIAL: James Paget University Hospitals Foundation Trust is putting its external audit contract out to tender later this month.
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Herts acute trust still predicting surplus
FINANCE: East and North Herts Trust is still predicting a £3.5m surplus this year.
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EoE ambulance trust behind on CIP plan
FINANCE: Cost improvement plans at East of England Ambulance Services Trust were more than £2m behind schedule at the end of month 10.
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Ambulance trust signs up to green scheme
FINANCE: The East of England Ambulance Service Trust has signed up to an ambitious carbon reduction plan which commits it to reducing emissions by 30 per cent by March 2016.
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New research focus at James Paget
STRUCTURE: James Paget University Hospitals Foundation Trust is looking at strengthening clinical research, the board of governors was told.
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New adolescent cancer unit opens at Addenbrookes
STRUCTURE: A new teenage cancer unit has opened at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.
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Minister praises VTE work at Colchester
PERFORMANCE: Colchester General Hospital has been praised by health minister Simon Burns for its work on preventing avoidable blood clots.
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Palliative care centre planned at James Paget
STRUCTURE: A new palliative care information and outreach centre is to be built at the James Paget Hospital.
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NewsPickles backs NHS workers' 'right to wear cross'
Cabinet minister Eric Pickles has supported demands for Christians to be allowed to wear crosses at work as two NHS workers take their case to Strasbourg.