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Second trust pulls out of South West pay consortium
WORKFORCE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust has become the second organisation to pull out of the South West Pay Consortium.
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Harrogate FT records below target suplus
FINANCE: Harrogate and District Foundation Trust had a surplus of £1.7m after the first eight months of the financial year - £1.2m less than planned.
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NMC seeks new powers in wake of Mid Staffs
Ministers have been challenged to make urgent changes to the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s powers in order to improve public protection – as it emerged just 13 nurses are currently facing sanctions in relation to the high profile care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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Royal Surrey looks to cut workforce
WORKFORCE: Royal Surrey County Hospital Foundation Trust is seeking to make around 30 staff redundant as part of efforts to reduce its workforce.
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Scarborough CCG may reopen MIU
STRUCTURE: A clinical commissioning group is looking to reopen a minor injuries unit at weekends – just a few months after the local PCT closed it to save money.
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Leeds Hospitals appoints COO and medical and nursing directors
WORKFORCE: Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has made three key board appointments.
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Barnsley installs new CT scanner funded by local residents
SERVICES: A new CT scanner has been installed at Barnsley Hospital – thanks to the generosity of a local couple who left a legacy of £600,000. Mary Tasker died in 2011 and her husband, local photographer Ted, had died in 1989.
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Mid Yorks cuts deficit prediction to £24m
FINANCE: The projected deficit at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust has been cut to £23.9m from £26m, the trust board has been told.
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Mid Yorkshire receives 181 MARS applications
WORKFORCE: 181 members of staff at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust have applied for voluntary redundancy under the MARS2 scheme.
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Leeds & York redesign runs into complications
STRUCTURE: A major redesign of services which treats mental health patients in the community rather than admitting them to hospital has run into some problems.
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Sheffield trust 'proactively managing' staff with high absence
WORKFORCE: Staff with the highest level of sickness absence are being ‘pro-actively’ managed at Sheffield Health and Social Care Foundation Trust – leading to a number of dismissals.
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South West Yorkshire trust opens new ward
STRUCTURE: A new ward has opened as part of a £12m redevelopment of a mental health secure unit in Wakefield. The new 15-bed Johnson ward is part of Newton Lodge, a medium secure unit which serves the wider Yorkshire and Humber area as well as people from the South West ...
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Yorkshire Ambulance sees 12 per cent demand growth
PERFORMANCE: A 12 per cent increase in demand on the previous month meant Yorkshire Ambulance Service struggled with ‘red’ responses in December.
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Yorkshire lets ten year GP practice contract
FINANCE: A ten-year contract to provide medical services at Thornton and Denholme Medical Practice has been awarded to a group of Shipley-based doctors who are already providing temporary services at the surgery.
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Bradford drops health and wellbeing centre plan
STRUCTURE: Plans to develop a health and wellbeing centre in the Keighley area of Bradford have been dropped in favour of concentrating on an integrated care model.
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Sheffield Children’s Hospital struggles with diagnostic target
PERFRORMANCE: Sheffield Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust failed to carry out diagnostic tests on 30 patients within six weeks in January – meaning that it did not meet the 99 per cent target.
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Board in place for Hillingdon Healthwatch
STRUCTURE: A chair and board have been appointed to Healthwatch Hillingdon, which has a start date of 1 April 2013.
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Hull and East Yorks forecasts £3.5m surplus
FINANCE: Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust is forecasting a surplus of £3.5m this financial year - £1.3m behind its original plans.
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Leeds Hospitals short of emergency registrars
PERFORMANCE: A shortage of emergency medicine specialty registrars is one of the factors in poor A&E performance at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust. A report to the trust board said that there was a 60 per cent vacancy rate for these posts across the trust. Consultants are working nights, locum doctors ...