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City Hospitals Sunderland CIP concern
FINANCE: City Hospitals Sunderland Foundation Trust is spending more than planned this year - but also seeing greater than expected income.
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Four London trusts' activity reporting 'inadequate'
FINANCE: The Audit Commission’s annual report on NHS London said four trusts in the SHA’s catchment area were “performing inadequately” on activity reporting, while six were “performing well” and 19 “adequately”.
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East Sussex Hospitals waits on CQC progress report
PERFORMANCE: East Sussex Hospitals says it expects the Care Quality Commission to report soon that it has made “substantial progress” against a number of concerns raised by the regulator.
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Contract query raised over Doncaster and Bassetlaw's stroke performance
PERFORMANCE: NHS Bassetlaw has raised a contract query with Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust over stroke performance.
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A&E performance on track at East Sussex Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: East Sussex Hospitals is continuing to exceed the relaxed four hour waiting time target, according to board papers.
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Improved hospital IT would save 'thousands' of lives
The extended and better use of IT could dramatically cut hospital deaths across England, a report claims, after a Birmingham trust saw deaths fall by 17 per cent in a 12-month period.
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Exclusive: DH publishes detailed plans for commissioning support
The Department of Health has identified four commissioning support functions which could be run most effectively at a national level.
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UCL Partners to become 'biggest AHSC in the world'
UCL Partners is expected to become the biggest academic health science centre in the world after welcoming another trust and a university to its partnership.
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64 patients declined funding as NHS Buckinghamshire fails on 18 week target
PERFORMANCE: Dozens of Buckinghamshire patients have been declined funding after commissioners took action to improve performance against the 18 week referral to treatment standard.
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Bristol trusts discuss £1bn merger
Two acute trusts in Bristol are in “ongoing discussions” about merging to create an organisation with a turnover close to £1bn.
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South West trusts sign pharma research deal
COMMERCIAL: Five NHS trusts have begun working with the world’s biggest biopharmaceutical company to provide patients for clinical trials.
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Stepping Hill poisoning cases hit seventeen
Seventeen patients at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport were affected by saline poisoning, police have revealed.
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Delay to plans for integrated sexual health service
PERFORMANCE: All but one of the services provided by new social enterprise Sirona Care & Health has been registered by the Care Quality Commission.
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UH South Manchester surplus and savings behind plan
FINANCE: The foundation reported a year-to-date surplus of £335,000 at the end of August, against a planned surplus of £759,000 to that point in the financial year.
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Milton Keynes provider transfer delayed for financial reasons
STRUCTURE: A transfer of the whole of the PCT provider arm at NHS Milton Keynes was proposed to Milton Keynes Hospital Foundation Trust.
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SHA warns North Essex cluster over target failures
PERFORMANCE: NHS East of England has written to the chief of the North Essex primary care trust cluster after failures against performance targets.
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Hospitals eye charges for disabled parking spaces
Campaigners have criticised plans to charge disabled people for parking at hospital appointments.
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CCP examines York and Scarborough merger
COMMERCIAL: The Cooperation and Competition panel has announced an investigation of the proposed merger between Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare Trust and York Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust.
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Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
PERFORMANCE: Work is beginning on a new hospital in Sunderland.
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West Hampshire CCG becomes a pathfinder
STRUCTURE: The West Hampshire clinical commissioning group has been named as a pathfinder by the Department of Health.