All MH TRUST LIST articles – Page 4

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Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership Trust behind on QIPP target

2011-03-02T18:43:00Z

FINANCE: The west Midlands mental health trust had planned to make £2.3m in quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings but had delivered only £1.3m at month eight, December, the strategic health authority reported.

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Birmingham and Solihull FT contract negotiations escalated after 'impasse'

2011-03-02T18:15:00Z

FINANCE: The West Midlands mental health provider reported in its latest board papers that the contract talks with Birmingham commissioners had reached a deadlock.

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'Concerns' over quality monitoring meetings with NHS Hounslow cluster

2011-03-02T16:51:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Minutes of a board meeting at West Middlesex University Hospital said chief executive Jacqueline Docherty noted “a number of staff from Hounslow [had been] appointed to senior positions” in the cluster and “advised the board there are concerns that the current quality monitoring meetings are not as effective as ...

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Suffolk Mental Health Trust predicts surplus, despite risks

2011-02-28T17:35:00Z

FINANCE: Suffolk Mental Health Partnership Trust is forecasting that it will hit its surplus target of £0.8m by the end of the year, despite risks including a merger with a neighbouring trust.

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Devon Partnership Trust FT application imminent

2011-02-28T17:22:00Z

STRUCTURE: Devon Partnership Trust is due to submit its application for foundation trust status to Monitor on 1 May this year.

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£3m surplus at Coventry and Warwickshire Mental Health Trust

2011-02-25T18:20:00Z

FINANCE: Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust has collected a surplus of over £3m so far this financial year.

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CQC still has 'concerns' over North East London Foundation Trust consent to treatment assurance

2011-02-24T11:06:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission said consent to treatment was its “greatest area of concern” at the London mental health trust, particularly as it had been brought up in previous reports by the Mental Health Act Commission.

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West London Mental Health Trust trust to investigate inpatients discharged without CPA plans

2011-02-24T00:00:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The trust is looking at how seven service users came to be discharged without Care Programme Approach plans confirmed.

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South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust has not engaged with GPs sufficiently on its FT bid, say commissioners

2011-02-18T14:30:00Z

STRUCTURE: The mental health organisation has been told by GPs in south-west London they cannot yet give their support to its foundation trust bid.

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Agency staff driving nursing cost overspend at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership

2011-02-17T13:25:00Z

WORKFORCE: Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust is reporting an overspend on nursing staff due to agency staff costs.

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Camden and Islington Foundation Trust behind plan on surplus

2011-02-09T16:44:00Z

FINANCE: The north London mental health trust reported being behind its target by £122,000 at month nine of the financial year.

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Sheffield Health and Social Care FT bails out PCT with dementia money

2011-02-09T16:11:00Z

FINANCE: Sheffield Health and Social Care has agreed to save around £1m to help with NHS Sheffield’s deficit.

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NHS North Yorkshire and York mental health services to go to local FTs

2011-02-09T15:45:00Z

COMMERCIAL: The board of NHS North Yorkshire and York has been recommended to award contracts for its mental health services to a mental health trust and an acute trust.

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Hertfordshire joint commissioning board to be dissolved

2011-02-09T14:24:00Z

STRUCTURE: Hertfordshire mental health FT has dissolved a board for joint commissioning with the local authority in light of the Liberating the NHS white paper

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Dramatic rise in detentions at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough FT

2011-02-09T12:59:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The number of people detained under the Mental Health Act by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health FT rose by 270 per cent in 2009-10, according to figures released in January.

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Work begins on new dementia unit at Norfolk and Waveney FT

2011-02-09T10:57:00Z

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY: Building work has begun on a 36-bed dementia intensive care unit(DICU) at the Julian Hospital on Bowthorpe Road, Norwich.

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West London Mental Health Trust to consult on closure of specialist in-patient service

2011-02-09T10:08:00Z

FINANCE: A mental health trust is holding a consultation into the closure of a specialist personality disorder service.

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Derbyshire mental health trust granted foundation status

2011-02-08T19:27:00Z

STRUCTURE: The trust formerly known as Derbyshire Mental Health Services Trust has been granted foundation status by Monitor and renamed Derbyshire Healthcare Foundation Trust.

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Dudley and Walsall more than double predicted surplus

2011-02-08T19:17:00Z

FINANCE: Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership Trust has more than doubled its predicted surplus.

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The Tavistock and Portman Foundation Trust establishes partnership with top US university

2011-02-08T18:50:00Z

STRUCTURE: The north London specialist mental health trust is working with Yale University on infant mental health training.