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Cornwall trusts work together on children's services
STRUCTURE: Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust and Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust have agreed a series of measures to integrate community and acute children’s services.
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Cornwall Partnership nurse recruitment drive
WORKFORCE: Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust is spending £0.5m to expend its nursing workforce.
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Waltham Forest CCG shifts nearly £1m in births from Whipps Cross
FINANCE: Waltham Forest CCG has shifted nearly £1m in births from Whipps Cross, May board papers reveal.
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Income rise at Royal Berkshire in March
FINANCE: Average daily income for Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust for March was the highest since December and above the average for 2012-13.
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Pennine Acute April deficit worse than planned
FINANCE: Pennine Acute Hospitals recorded a deficit of £970,000 for the first month of 2013-14, against a planned deficit of £450,000, the trust’s latest performance report shows.
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Southwark CCG £7m overspent with King's at year-end
FINANCE: Southwark CCG was £7m overspent with King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust at the end of 2012-13, board papers reveal.
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South London Healthcare Trust improves on some quality measures
PERFORMANCE: South London Healthcare Trust has improved on five quality measures, papers to the Greenwich CCG’s board reveal.
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Greenwich CCG aims for £18.9m savings over two years
FINANCE: Greenwich CCG is aiming for £18.9m in QIPP savings over 2013-14 and 2014-15.
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Lewisham blames A&E performance on norovirus, out-of-borough patients and mental health breaches
PERFORMANCE: Lewisham Healthcare Trust has blamed norovirus, an increase in out-of-borough patients and “issues relating to mental health breaches” for missing the 95 per cent A&E target.
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North Somerset debates community hospital
STRUCTURE: North Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group is set to debate future of Clevedon Community Hospital.
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Former care trust chair takes on Healthwatch role
WORKFORCE: The fomer chair of Blackburn with Darwen Care Trust Plus has been appointed the chair of the local health watchdog.
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CCGs launch joint prospectus
STRUCTURE: Diabetes services closer to home and a new GP home visiting scheme are among plans outlined in a new prospectus jointly launched by Greater Preston CCG, and Chorley and South Ribble CCG.
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Two cases of measles in Blackburn with Darwen
PERFORMANCE: There were two confirmed cases of measles in Blackburn with Darwen in the first 18 weeks of this year, show CCG board papers.
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Bolton FT one of best in region for A&E waits
PERFORMANCE: Royal Bolton Hospitals Foundation Trust remains one of the few hospitals across Greater Manchester to “sustainably” achieve the A&E four-hour target over the past year, commissioner board papers show.
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Mersey Care Trust submits five year plan
STRUCTURE: Mersey Care Trust has moved one step closer to gaining Foundation Trust status after submitting its five-year business plan to the Trust Development Authority (TDA).
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HSJ Live 20.06.2013: CQC names individuals in 'cover up' report
The fallout from the CQC ‘cover-up’ report and the rest of today’s news
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Ricketts 'sceptical' about CCGs relying on in-house support
NHS England’s director of commissioning support strategy has indicated he is “deeply sceptical” that clinical commissioning groups can function at their best without buying in support services.
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Health and wellbeing boards may control £1bn under integration plan
Health and wellbeing boards could be given control of more than £1bn funding from the Department of Health budget under plans being considered by ministers and local government leaders.
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Updated: Investigators reveal CQC 'cover up' over Morecambe Bay
The suppression of a report criticising the Care Quality Commission’s regulatory oversight of scandal-hit University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay may well have constituted a deliberate cover up by senior management at the regulator, an independent investigation has concluded.
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Mid Staffs administrators to ask for more time
The special administrators running Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have asked Monitor for extra time to decide the fate of its acute services, HSJ can reveal.