All articles by Lawrence Dunhill – Page 53
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Mega-merger will create largest trust in England
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. By Lawrence Dunhill
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HSJ Local
Single 'city-wide' trust proposed for Manchester
Recommendation would mean a new trust running services currently provided at Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust, University Hospitals of South Manchester FT and North Manchester General Hospital. Sir Jonathan Michael rejected the idea of creating a “hospital chain”, which is the model being pursued by the acute trusts ...
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HSJ Local
240 council staff to transfer to community trust
About 240 council staff will transfer to an NHS community trust as part of service integration plans for the Wirral.
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News
High performing trust bosses asked to 'peer review' others
NHS Improvement has asked 30 providers to take part in governance reviews at other trusts A number of specific reviews to be commissioned in coming months Reviews will be supported by external consultants Regulators have asked chief executives and chairs at “high performing” trusts to take part in ...
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Vanguard cuts for Cheshire and Wirral
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. By Lawrence Dunhill
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HSJ Local
Hundreds of council staff to transfer to vanguard trust
440 council staff set to transfer to Salford Royal Foundation Trust to become part of a new “integrated care organisation” Set to be one of the first vanguard new care models to be fully realised Some areas have felt unable to fully integrate health and social care contracts due ...
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News
Revealed: The best and worst financial performers in your region
Data collected by HSJ has revealed the acute trusts with the deepest financial problems, including three providers with a deficit of around 20 per cent of their turnover.
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News
Official figures reveal £2.45bn NHS provider deficit
Figures published by NHS Improvement show the provider sector ended 2015-16 with a deficit of £2.45bn.
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HSJ Local
Original special measures hospitals rated 'good'
QUALITY: An NHS trust which was among the first cohort placed in special measures has had both its main hospital sites rated as “good” by the Care Quality Commission.
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News
NHS providers end year with £2.7bn deficit, HSJ research reveals
NHS providers have fallen almost £1bn short of their revised financial target for 2015-16, according to locally reported figures This is despite the positive impact of dozens of “capital to revenue transfers” Risk that Department of Health will breach its spending limit for the year, experts warn Charlesworth: DH ...
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: The bitter smell of success
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. By Lawrence Dunhill
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HSJ Local
FT boss to become council chief executive
LEADERSHIP: The chief executive of Humber Foundation Trust is leaving after accepting a chief executive job in local government.
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News
Procurement roles should be 'top of the office', says former finance boss
Former finance chief calls for radical shift in culture and influence of NHS procurement teams Lorraine Bewes says there are too many procurement departments Carter review estimates £750m could be saved by reducing variation in the prices paid for thousands of items Delivering the required savings in non-clinical ...
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HSJ Local
Trust reports dozens of 12 hour trolley waits in single month
Official data for March shows there were 137 “trolley waits” of at least 12 hours at Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust Trust says a new internal system had skewed the numbers, so the true number of 12 hour breaches was around 70 – still the highest in England There have ...
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HSJ Local
Salford 'appears' favourite to be cancer surgery centre
Commissioners favour Salford Royal as single site for upper gastrointestinal surgery Discussions continue over urology surgery Previous efforts to reconfigure both services have been highly contentious STRUCTURE: Commissioners in Greater Manchester are likely to choose Salford Royal Foundation Trust as the single site for some specialised cancer services, ...
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HSJ Local
Most challenged STP footprint gets extra support
Neil Modha was named leader of the sustainability and transformation plan for the area, which HSJ has identified as the most financially challenged in England. CCG has now confirmed he will also step down as STP leader when he leaves the group NHS Improvement heavily involved in the STP’s ...
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Will savings require job cuts?
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. By Lawrence Dunhill
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Clearing the FT pipeline
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. By Lawrence Dunhill
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News
Hunt admits health funding was not protected in spending review
Jeremy Hunt did not challenge assertion that overall spending would increase in real terms by only £4.5bn Health committee chair emphasises that national cuts will impact local NHS providers Simon Stevens says “we’re going to have to cut out cloth accordingly” when asked about transformation funding Jeremy Hunt ...
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News
Poll: Two-thirds believe UK spends too little on NHS
Two-thirds of people in the UK believe too little is spent on healthcare, according to a new survey Much higher proportion than in other major European countries UK health spending as a proportion of GDP has declined since 2009 Almost two-thirds of people in the UK believe too ...