All LIVERPOOL PCT articles – Page 2

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Liverpool Community Health names new medical director

2012-03-23T14:56:00Z

WORKFORCE: The trust has appointed Craig Gradden, currently of Aintree University Hospitals, as medical director.

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Bridge built between Aintree and the Walton Centre

2012-03-09T12:39:00Z

STRUCTURE: Aintree University Hospitals and the Walton Centre have announced plans for a £2m bridge between the two foundation trusts, to allow rapid transfer of patients with serious head injuries.

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SHAs asked to endorse £278m Alder Hey rebuild

2012-01-16T18:24:00Z

FINANCE: Strategic health authorities will this week be asked to endorse the business case for a £278m rebuilding of the foundation’s hospital and grounds.

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Fourteen CCGs in North of England have structure problem

2012-01-16T16:42:00Z

STRUCTURE: NHS North of England has highlighted problems with the structure of 14 prospective clinical commissioning groups in the patch, including one in Wirral of which prominent GP commissioner James Kingsland is a member.

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Liverpool PCT chair gets OBE

2012-01-03T18:25:00Z

WORKFORCE: NHS Liverpool chair Gideon Ben-Tovim has been awarded an OBE for services to health.

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Increased demand for neurosurgery presses Walton Centre waiting times

2011-12-09T18:39:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Continued increasing demand for neurosurgery has hit the specialist foundation’s ability to meet referral-to-treatment waiting times targets, its commissioners have reported.

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Southport and Ormskirk above target for MRSA infections

2011-12-09T18:37:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The trust has exceeded its annual target limit for MRSA infections, its commissioners have reported.

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Podiatry and adult hearing services to be opened to competition in Merseyside

2011-12-07T17:03:00Z

STRUCTURE: Podiatry, musculoskeletal and adult hearing services will be opened up to competition from any qualified provider by NHS Liverpool in 2012, according to a new “AQP map” published by the Department of Health.

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More funding pledged to help oncology centre across the Mersey

2011-12-01T00:00:00Z

STRUCTURE: Commissioners in Merseyside have pledged £6.5m a year towards a proposed relocation to central Liverpool of the Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology Foundation Trust’s main facility.

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NHS North cluster names senior executive directors

2011-09-23T16:21:00Z

WORKFORCE: The senior executive team has been appointed for the NHS North cluster, made up of NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, North West and North East.

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Cheshire and Merseyside consider merging family health support services

2011-09-20T17:02:00Z

STRUCTURE: The primary care trust cluster’s board has heard a proposal to save £1.06m by merging two shared services organisations to create a single family services agency for Cheshire and Merseyside.

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Warrington and Halton Hospitals fights to retain vascular services

2011-09-01T19:31:00Z

STRUCTURE: Warrington and Halton Hospitals Foundation Trust has vowed to fight a recommendation to reject its bid to become a high volume centre for arterial surgery, as part of a regional reorganisation of vascular services.

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A flexible intervention model driving positive, sustainable change in public health

2011-08-25T00:00:00Z

Intervention modelling has had a positive and sustainable impact on public health behaviours, as two case studies from the north of England detail.

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Going green for public health: transforming cities to help health and wellbeing

2011-08-10T17:01:00Z

Liverpool’s green infrastructure strategy is proving that environmental provision such as open spaces will support wellbeing, and could have many lessons for other cities to learn from across the UK. Dr Paula Grey explains.

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Royal Liverpool could become foundation trust by 1 November

2011-07-08T17:55:00Z

STRUCTURE: Foundation trust regulator Monitor was due to begin assessment of Royal Liverpool’s FT application at the end of June, NHS North West board papers show.

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Capita grabs toehold in HR as preferred supplier for twelve trusts

2011-06-02T00:00:00Z

COMMERCIAL: Capita has been named “preferred supplier” of HR services for 12 north Merseyside NHS organisations. The deal gives the outsourcing firm a toehold in NHS human resources.

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Capita set to take on HR for Liverpool trusts in £27m deal

2011-05-24T18:42:00Z

COMMERCIAL: Outsourcing firm Capita Group has announced it has been appointed as preferred provider of human resources, payroll, and recruitment services for up to 12 NHS organisations in north Mersey.

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Liverpool trust extends pilot health scheme for ex-offenders

2011-04-20T19:05:00Z

STRUCTURE: A pilot scheme which helps ex-offenders to get health checks has been extended in Liverpool.

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Liverpool community trust loses patient records

2011-04-14T18:18:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The Information Commissioner’s Office has found Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust in breach of the Data Protection Act, after it lost the medical papers of 31 children and their mothers last autumn.

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Liverpool Community Health appoints head of nursing directorate

2011-04-06T17:45:00Z

WORKFORCE: Helen Lockett has joined Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust to head up its operations and nursing directorate.