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York Hospitals was running behind plan on surplus
FINANCE: York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been running behind its planned surplus at the end of the last financial year, recording £0.94m in March compared to the £3.2m expected.
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Great Ormond Street bowel unit to ease child surgery
STRUCTURE: Sick children will be spared unnecessary surgery as a result of a new initiative which will also save the health service money.
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Official opening for new mental health unit at Pennine Care
STRUCTURE: The trust has officially opened a £13.6m mental health unit at its Birch Hill Hospital site in Rochdale.
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Liverpool Women's seeks to form national alliance to lobby for maternity care providers
FINANCE: The foundation has written to the chief executives of all trusts delivering 5,000 or more children a year to consider forming a “national alliance”, as part of its effort to lobby against changes to the maternity tariff.
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Capita set to take on HR for Liverpool trusts in £27m deal
COMMERCIAL: Outsourcing firm Capita Group has announced it has been appointed as preferred provider of human resources, payroll, and recruitment services for up to 12 NHS organisations in north Mersey.
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Blood service looks set to remain in house
The head of the NHS blood service has expressed optimism it will escape part-privatisation amid suggestions the government is worried about the public backlash against private involvement in public services.
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South West London PCT cluster spent £6.7m on redundancies
WORKFORCE: Primary care trusts comprising the South West London cluster spent £6.7m on redundancies in the last financial year.
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Winchester and Eastleigh risks missing £9.4m savings target
FINANCE: Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust has red-rated its £9.4m service improvement target for 2011-12, having only finished last year in the black thanks to a strategic health authority bail-out.
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NHS Wiltshire plans early transfer of public health to local council
WORKFORCE: Public health staff at NHS Wiltshire are to be consulted on transfering to the local authority under plans for Wiltshire Council to become an early adopter of government proposals to integrate public health into local government.
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SW London cluster considers hospital pathology and pharmacy consolidation
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust cluster has launched a clinically-led review of services across the health economy and said consolidation options were being looked at across its acute trusts.
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Epsom and St Helier launches plans to save £18.7m this year
WORKFORCE: Epsom and St Helier has announced it needs to save £18.7m by March 2012 to help close the gap between income and expenditure.
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PCTs hand University Hospitals Leicester £15m productivity fund
FINANCE: University Hospitals of Leicester Trust has been given £15m of top-sliced funds to spend on improving productivity.
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Derbyshire PCTs told to be less 'controlling'
PERFORMANCE: The Derbyshire cluster has been told it needs to be less “controlling” and should be putting more effort into developing consortia.
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'Challenging' timetable for Bath and North East Somerset
STRUCTURE: NHS Bath and North East Somerset is anticipating a “challenging” few months as it establishes a social enterprise for its community services.
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Western Sussex Hospitals finished 2010-11 with £5.2m surplus
FINANCE: The trust finished 2010-11 with a £5.2m surplus but has fallen behind plan so far this year, according to board papers.
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International index finds UK obesity growing
A new international index launched online today has highlighted the UK’s worsening obesity problem.
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Moorfields selected to provide community opthamology services in SW London
STRUCTURE: The specialist trust has been chosen by commissioners to provide community eye services working out of its Queen Mary’s Roehampton and Teddington Memorial Hospital.
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Durham and Darlington hospitals struggling with A&E capacity
PERFORMANCE: County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has been struggling to meet accident and emergency waiting times requirements.
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Former West Kent chief exec leaves SHA role for Qatar
WORKFORCE: NHS South East Coast regional director of provider development Steve Phoenix is to leave the strategic health authority in September.
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Darlington PCT overspent on non-NHS provider
FINANCE: Darlington PCT was due to meet its overall surplus plan for 2010-11, despite recording significant over-performance on its contracts with independent sector treatment centres.