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Kent and Medway Partnership expects small deficit for 2010-11
FINANCE: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust predicted a small year-end deficit of £0.2m last month.
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Sheffield Children's Hospital reviewing private boards
STRUCTURE: Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is to review whether its board of directors will continue to meet in private in May.
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Trusts in royal wedding pay row
More than 100 trusts in England are refusing to give enhanced pay rates to staff who work on the day of the royal wedding later this month, union leaders have complained.
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Clegg aide threatens to quit over reforms
One of Nick Clegg’s closest allies has threatened to quit unless the government slows down the pace of its controversial NHS reforms.
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Surrey and Borders Partnership launches pioneering organ donor guide
COMMERCIAL: Clinicians at Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust have created the country’s first official guide to organ donation for people with learning disabilities.
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Front line 'must be NHS priority'
Health minister Simon Burns has insisted that the NHS must make frontline services a “priority” as new figures were released by a union showing clinical staff accounting for half of planned job losses in the health service.
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Exclusive: SHA troubleshooter now confirmed in turnaround role at England's biggest trust
As reported by HSJ earlier this week Mark Davies has now been confirmed as interim chief executive at Imperial College Healthcare Trust.
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Manager who pumped NHS funds into stud farm told to pay cash back
A former senior NHS manager who channelled £200,000 of hospital funds into her stud farm business has been ordered to pay the money back.
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Staff cost overspend at Coventry and Warwickshire mental health trust
WORKFORCE: Nursing costs for mental health inpatient wards at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust were overspent by over £1m in February.
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King's College Hospital makes HCAIs top priority for 2011-12
PERFORMANCE: The south London acute had reported 16 MRSA bacteraemias at the end of month 11, nearly double its target of eight.
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South Central renews joint contract for payroll services
COMMERCIAL: Ten NHS organisations in South Central have renewed their contract with NHS Shared Business Services for another four years.
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NHS Stoke on Trent funds ‘mystery shoppers’ to check on quality
PERFORMANCE: The primary care trust’s latest board papers note that its local health economy steering group has been asked to manage the introduction of a ‘mystery shopping programme’ across all its organisations.
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Suspension of births at Winchester and Eastleigh birthing centre to continue
STRUCTURE: Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare Trust is to continue with the suspension of births at the Andover Birthing Centre while a review of the service’s future is carried out.
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Scarborough trust given no foundation trust date
STRUCTURE: Scarborough & North East Yorkshire Healthcare Trust has not been given a date for becoming a foundation trust.
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East Cheshire Trust will need to cut costs by 8 per cent this year
FINANCE: The trust will have to cut its costs by 8 per cent to hit its surplus target for 2011-12, its draft business plan shows.
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Southport and Ormskirk plans £8.6m savings for 2011-12
FINANCE: The trust aims to make efficiency savings of 5 per cent in 2011-12, or £8.6m, its draft budget for the year states.
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NHS Stoke on Trent devolves strategic commissioning to GPs
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust has stepped down a board sub-committee dealing with strategic commissioning.
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Coventry and Warwickshire mental health trust asks for CQUIN exclusions
FINANCE: Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust has asked its primary care trust to discount children and adolescent mental health (CAMH) performance from its commissioning for quality and innovation (CQUIN) scheme.
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Mid Yorkshire trust missing A&E target
PERFORMANCE: Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust was the only trust in the region missing the A&E waiting target in the year-to-date, NHS Yorkshire and the Humber has reported.
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C difficile infection rates falling
The number of older people recorded as having contracted the C difficile hospital bug in Scotland has dropped by 37 per cent in a year, statistics showed today.