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Royal Marsden challenged over billing for patient 'who wasn't there'
FINANCE: NHS Croydon are challenging the specialist cancer trust saying they were billed until the end of September for a patient who was discharged in May.
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West Middlesex University Hospital Trust performing ahead of target for referral to treatment times
PERFROMANCE: The west London hospital achieved the 18-week standard for admitted and non-admitted cases in November.
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NHS Croydon to challenge local acute over "reclassifying activity" to avoid lower tariff
FINANCE: NHS Croydon is challenging St George’s Healthcare Trust after claiming it re-classified activity to avoid only being paid at a marginal rate.
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NHS Newham squeezes extra £1.4m out of acute provider
FINANCE: The primary care trust is reporting an increased surplus after its PCT sector negotiated extra payment from Barts and the London Trust.
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Ambulances lose 231 hours of emergency response resource through slow turnaround at Aintree
PERFORMANCE: Ambulance turnaround times at the hospital over Christmas and New Year were among the worst in the North West, the ambulance service reported.
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Burton Hospitals staff vote on bank holiday
WORKFORCE: Burton Hospitals Foundation Trust is asking employees to vote on whether the royal wedding should be treated as a bank holiday.
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Southampton plan to delegate urgent care to city-wide consortium
STRUCTURE: Southampton City PCT has plans to delegate £80m in urgent care commissioning to a single commissioning consortium covering the patch.
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Berkshire mental health FT in surplus
FINANCE: Berkshire Healthcare FT expects to finish the year with a surplus of £663,000, just below its plan for the year.
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NHS Ealing cancels board meeting and can't say when it will next meet
STRUCTURE: A primary care trust cancelled its January board meeting and couldn’t say when it would next meet.
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Ambulance turnaround times rise to nearly two hours at Tameside Hospital FT over Christmas
PERFORMANCE: Ambulance turnaround times at the Tameside General Hospital over Christmas and New Year were among the worst in the North West, the ambulance service reported.
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Salisbury FT offers services for new trauma centre
STRUCTURE: Salisbury Foundation Trust could provide plastic surgery for a new major trauma centre at Southampton University Hospitals Trust.
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South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust claims SHA is pleased with its progress towards FT status
STRUCTURE: A mental health trust is confident it can attain foundation trust status after being told by the strategic health authority is was not an “at risk” trust
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Salisbury FT in overperformance dispute with PCTs
FINANCE: Salisbury FT has been issued with performance notices, warning notices and and exception report by NHS Wiltshire.
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Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust predicting surplus
FINANCE: A trust is predicting it will meet its planned surplus of £3.3m at year end, but needs to find an extra £700,000 in savings.
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NHS North Lincolnshire missing target for number of staff who have changed post
WORKFORCE: The trust’ set itself a target of having only one per cent of staff changing position, but recorded a figure of three per cent, according to its latest board papers.
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Leicestershire Partnership Trust postpones FT bid
STRUCTURE: Leicestershire Partnership Trust has decided to postpone its foundation trust application following a meeting with Monitor.
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Salford Royal scores highly in cancer patient experience survey
PERFORMANCE: The foundation has achieved some of the best scores in the country in the Department of Health’s largest ever survey of the experiences of cancer patients.
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Royal Bolton remains red rated for mortality, but shows improvement
PERFORMANCE: Mortality rates at the foundation remain higher than expected, but have improved significantly in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
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Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals FT consults on future
STRUCTURE: The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals FT has launched a public consultation on the future of its estate.
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Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS FT leads on money saving scheme
FINANCE: A project led by the chief executive of Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust has identified potential for £200m of savings.