All Monitor articles – Page 67
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Community services transfer to Blackpool FT held up by regulator
STRUCTURE: The transfer of primary care trust NHS Blackpool’s provider services to a foundation trust has been delayed until at least May, due to “capacity issues” at FT regulator Monitor.
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NewsMonitor capacity holds up community service transfers
Monitor has admitted that its own capacity issues are largely to blame for the delayed transfer of community service providers.
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Comment'63 per cent of managers are making cost-savings - what are the others up to?'
Decision over jobs and pay are going to be tough - but that’s all the more reason to take them now, and start preparing for the future, writes David Flory.
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NewsMonitor predicts 20 FT contract disputes
Rows over 2010-11 contracts could increase foundation trusts’ risk ratings by the end of this year, Monitor has predicted.
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Monitor holds up TCS transfer at NHS Wiltshire
STRUCTURE: The transfer of NHS Wiltshire’s provider arm to Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust has been held up as the regulator Monitor cannot meet the April 1 deadline.
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NewsMonitor 'happy' with Mid Staffs death toll
A former board director at Mid Staffordshire has spoken of his “amazement” that Monitor did not pick up on the hospital’s problems during its authorisation process to become a foundation trust.
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NewsLabour tables amendments to planned Monitor role
Labour has put forward amendments to the Health Bill to remove Monitor’s planned powers as an enforcer of competition law.
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Dorset Healthcare meets all FT compliance targets
PERFORMANCE: Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust has reported that it did not breach any of its terms of authorisation in January 2011.
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Monitor holds up Dorset community services transfer
STRUCTURE: The transfer of community heathcare services to Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust is likely to be delayed beyond the Department of Health’s April 1 deadline due to a lack of capacity at the foundation trust regulator Monitor.
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Somerset community care divestment faces three-month delay
STRUCTURE: There is likely to be a three-month delay in authorisation for a new provider of community healthcare in the area because of the volume of referrals to Monitor, NHS Somerset has claimed.
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Western Sussex Hospitals Trust set to apply for FT status in summer
STRUCTURE: Western Sussex Hospitals Trust has received positive feedback from its strategic health authority on plans to become a foundation trust, and hopes to apply in the summer.
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Southend FT challenges Monitor compliance plans
STRUCTURE: Southend University FT has raised concerns with Monitor’s plans to include national performance targets in its compliance framework.
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Comment'GPs run the risk of alienating themselves from their colleagues'
As the BMA gears up for a crisis meeting to debate the Health Bill, the chair of its consultant and specialists committee voices his fears of a huge split between members - and a ‘seething cauldron’ of competing providers in the future.
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Poole hospital trust reports £3.6m deficit
FINANCE: Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust reported a deficit of £3.6m in the financial year to January, meaning that it is on course to meet the target £4.7m deficit agreed with regulator Monitor.
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UCLH busts target on MRSA cases
PERFORMANCE: University College Hospitals Foundation Trust has exceeded its MRSA target for 2010-11, but regulator Monitor has chosen not to take action over the issue.
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CommentMichael White: Lansley's cloudy vision blurs the clear NHS reality
Watching the drama of health reform debate week after week, I sometimes think of a clever young Tory think tanker called Danny Kruger. Remember him?In 2005 Danny was forced to stand down as his party’s candidate to fight Tony Blair in Sedgefield because he had been heard promising “a period ...
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News'Sensible boundary' needed on GP competition rules, says Monitor
Monitor has stressed the need to avoid an overly restrictive approach to regulating competition issues affecting GP commissioners.
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Tameside FT deficit deepened to £1.5m in December
FINANCE: The foundation trust made a deficit of £331,000 in December, bringing its year to date deficit to £1.5m.
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NewsTameside in significant breach of foundation terms
Tameside Hospital Foundation Trust has been found to be in significant breach of its terms of authorisation as a foundation, after consistently overspending and not drawing up plans to return to solvency.
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Northern Devon Healthcare Trust on course for FT status
STRUCTURE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust is on course to submit an application for foundation trust status to Monitor on 1 May 2012.