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Basingstoke and North Hampshire makes the case for integration
STRUCTURE: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospitals FT is drawing up a business case for its integration with Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare Trust.
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NHS South Birmingham warns of £9.5m Continuing Healthcare overspend across city
FINANCE: Birmingham’s three PCTs are predicting a worse case scenario of overspending on Continuing Healthcare by £9.5m.
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Royal Berkshire FT to pay nearly £8m in compensation
FINANCE: The Royal Berkshire FT will pay nearly £8m in compensation to a ten-year-old with cerebral palsy after mistakes during his birth.
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Birmingham hospitals issue joint pathology tender
COMMERCIAL: Birmingham Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust has opened a tender on a range of pathology services with Birmingham Women’s Foundation Trust.
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Birmingham trusts launch joint pathology tender
COMMERCIAL: Birmingham Women’s Foundation Trust has opened a tender on a range of pathology services with Birmingham Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust.
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NHS East Lancs sets £83m five-year savings target
FINANCE: NHS East Lancashire predicts it will have to save nearly £83m over the next five years to meet the government targets set in the operating framework.
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NHS Manchester tells OOH provider to review its Christmas performance
PERFORMANCE: The primary care trust said its out of hours service came under significant pressure during the festive period, resulting in waits of up to six hours for a GP visit.
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NHS Haringey heading for £17m acute overspend
FINANCE: A primary care trust is looking at a year-end overspend of £17m with its local and out-of-sector acute providers.
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Last patient leaves Lincolnshire Partnership FT inpatient unit
STRUCTURE: The last patient has left one of the Lincolnshire mental health FT’s inpatient units, paving the way for its planned closure.
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Sick leave numbers hit 12-month peak at Alder Hey
WORKFORCE: Alder Hey lost 5,496 work days in November due to staff illness, the highest monthly rate of sickness abscence for the foundation in 12 months.
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University Hospitals Bristol FT presses ahead with partnership plans
STRUCTURE: University Hospitals Bristol and North Bristol Trust have set up a partnership board to take forward plans to work more closely together.
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Manchester Health and Social Care raises red flag over savings target
FINANCE: The care trust still had £1.2m of costs to cut out of its budget in 2010/11 at the end of December, a position it described as a “significant risk”.
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Overperformance and pay underspends see Walton Centre surplus rocket above plan
FINANCE: The foundation was showing a cumulative surplus of £2.8m at the end of October, £2m greater than the surplus it had planned to record by that date.
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NHS Manchester on course for breakeven
FINANCE: The primary care trust forecasts that it will breakeven at the end of the year.
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NHS Derbyshire County's predicted overspend increases by £2.7m in a month
FINANCE: NHS Derbyshire County has increased its predicted overspend by £2.7m in a month due to high activity levels among trusts.
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Bradford District pressured by social care overspend
FINANCE: A pooled budget funding gap and social care overspends are creating financial pressures for Bradford District Care Trust.
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Barnsley Hospital FT driving acute overspend for PCT
FINANCE: Barnsley PCT has reported that an overspend on acute contracts is driven by over-performance at Barnsley Hospital FT.
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Deficit grows to over £8m at NHS West Sussex
FINANCE: The primary care trust’s deficit rose by nearly £2m over the preceding month.
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SHA seeks assurances from West Hertfordshire Hospitals over quality concerns
PERFORMANCE: East of England SHA’s provider development board is seeking assurance from West Hertfordshire Hospitals over serious incidents, never events and rising mortality rates.
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East Sussex Hospitals starts to ‘turn corner’ on £6m deficit
FINANCE: East Sussex has maintained its year-to-date deficit of £6m since the previous month