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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.
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Departed chair at troubled London trust had raised concerns about diverting pregnant women
PERFORMANCE: Chair of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Edwin Doyle resigned within a week of raising concerns about the Care Quality Commission’s imposition of a cap on the number of births at the trust.
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NewsRevealed: Bennett's plan to split Monitor board
Monitor is likely to face “numerous” allegations of improper conduct unless it can clearly separate its future healthcare regulatory role from its responsibility for foundation trusts, its chairman has warned.
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NewsBurnham urges medical colleges to demand bill is dropped
Representatives from the main royal medical colleges have met shadow health secretary Andy Burnham to discuss the possibility of a issuing a joint call for the Health Bill to be dropped.
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Peterborough and Stamford in significant breach for ‘foreseeable future’ – Monitor
FINANCE: A November meeting of Monitor’s compliance board concluded that the regulator expected Peterborough and Stamford FT to remain in significant breach of its terms of authorisation for “the foreseeable future”.
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Court date set for NHS Gloucestershire judicial review
STRUCTURE: Lawyers for NHS Gloucestershire will be in the high court next month to defend the primary care trust in a judicial review of the transfer of its provider arm.
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NewsEU laws 'putting patients at risk'
NHS patients are “at risk” because of European laws, the heads of two royal colleges have said.
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Northumbria Healthcare FT buys PAS
COMMERCIAL: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a seven-year contract to Stalis Ltd to supply a new patient administration system.
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Ox-Bucks cluster 'concerned' over QIPP
FINANCE: Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire primary care trust cluster has expressed “concern” over its ability to meet its quality, improvement, productivity and prevention plan for 2011-12.
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Imperial advertises chief executive's job
WORKFORCE: The west London hospital trust, one of the largest in the UK, is advertising for a permanent chief executive and applications must be submitted by January 27.
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Epsom and St Helier secures £5m bailout from cluster to end the year £14m in deficit
FINANCE: The London/Surrey borders trust’s latest finance report said it was planning to hit its revised £14.3 deficit target after “revenue support of £5m has been agreed with sector” and NHS London.
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Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Heath Trust name-change receives tentative backing
STRUCTURE: The north London mental health trust plans to change its name to North London Foundation Trust if it is authorised by Monitor.
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Trusts merge to form Oxford University Hospitals
STRUCTURE: Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust has merged with Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre to form Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Berkshire Healthcare saves £610,000 through vacancy freezes
WORKFORCE: Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust hit its cost improvement plan target in the year to September 2011, but had to save £610,000 through vacancy freezes.
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NewsNew Medicine Service guidance released
New guidance has been published showing how the New Medicine Service and post discharge Medicines Use Reviews can be used to provide a seamless care pathway for patients who transfer from hospital to the community setting.
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NHS Manchester to overshoot savings target by £1.5m
FINANCE: The primary care trust is forecasting it will save around £1.5m more than its £24.7m savings target for 2011-12, according to the Greater Manchester PCT cluster’s latest finance report.