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Dorset Healthcare wins contract for community services
COMMERCIAL: Dorset Healthcare University Foundation Trust has announced it has won the contract to provide community health services across Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole.
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Four hour A&E performance standard retained
Trusts will keep being performance managed against the four hour accident and emergency standard in a bid to maintain “grip” on waiting times. The move comes after the government signalled a relaxing of the timescale for the transition to a new monitoring system.
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GPs focus on financially rewarding patients, study shows
Patients whose care sees GPs receive financial payments are being prioritised at the expense of others, research suggests.
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Sussex Partnership faced with fallout from closure of private unit
STRUCTURE: The foundation trust is relocating patients from a local independent hospital which is set to close in September.
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Barnsley agrees 'way forward' on commissioning groups
STRUCTURE: GPs in Barnsley have agreed “joint working arrangements” for the commissioning transition involving two aspirant GP groups.
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South Tees spots early finance shortfall
FINANCE: South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was £700,000 behind its financial plan at the end of April, one month into the financial year.
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New chief exec starts at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
WORKFORCE: A new chief executive has taken over at The Children’s Hospital, Sheffield.
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Refurbished cancer screening facilities open in Surrey
STRUCTURE: A new and improved breast screening service for women in Surrey and North East Hampshire has been officially opened.
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Birmingham Women’s Hospital nurse given top union post
WORKFORCE: A nurse at the trust has become president of the union Unison.
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Yorkshire ambulance top team reshuffle
WORKFORCE: Yorkshire Ambulance Service Trust has restructured executive posts and directorate portfolios, with the number of executive directors reduced from eight to six.
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Hospitals failing stroke admissions target
Most hospitals in Scotland are failing to meet admission targets for stroke victims, new figures have shown.
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East Kent Hospitals University signs Mencap charter
PERFORMANCE: The trust has signed up to Mencap’s ‘getting it right’ charter, which sets out how hospital staff should ensure that patients with a learning disability experience a high standard of care that meets their needs.
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Non-executive director appointed at Nottinghamshire Healthcare
WORKFORCE: Christine Lovett has been appointed as non-executive director at Nottinghamshire Healthcare.
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Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals welcomes education adviser
WORKFORCE: A new advisory board chair for the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Deanery has been appointed, the trust has announced.
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East Cheshire Trust makes two-thirds of its savings non-recurrently
FINANCE: The acute trust made more of its savings non-recurrently than any other trust and ended the year in deficit, an HSJ survey shows.
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DH comms director general is latest to announce departure
The Department of Health director general of communications has become the fourth senior figure to signal their departure from the NHS or DH in the space of a week.
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Tameside closed 2010-11 with £1.4m deficit and red rating for governance
PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust closed 2010-11 with a year-end deficit of £1.39m, and a red rating for governance from FT regulator Monitor.
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Cameron to urge public sector strike rethink
David Cameron will today urge public sector unions to halt planned industrial action and agree that pension reform is necessary.
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Doctors to call for Health Bill withdrawal
Doctors’ representatives have voted to call for the government’s Health Bill to be withdrawn, in spite of the changes due to be made following a period of review.
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University Hospitals Bristol FT gets amber/red Monitor rating
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust has achieved an amber/red governance risk rating from Monitor for 2010-11.