News – Page 1000
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CCG concern over Great Western A&E performance
PERFORMANCE: Performance board papers for Swindon CCG highlight its concern over the four hour A&E waiting time target at Great Western Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Swindon CCG cash draw down hitch
FINANCE: According to the latest finance board papers for Swindon CCG the organisation has been forced to “draw down £4m more than it needed for April.”
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Dorset County Hospital 'crowdsources' improvements
SERVICE DESIGN: Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is using the ideas of its front line staff to try and help reduce patients’ feeling of isolation.
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Devon Partnership psychiatrist to lead regional mental health network
STRUCTURE: A consultant psychiatrist at Devon Partnership Trust’s Langdon Hospital, in Dawlish, has been appointed by NHS England as the inaugural chair of a new mental health network.
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NewsRicketts 'sceptical' about CCGs relying on in-house support
NHS England’s director of commissioning support strategy has indicated he is “deeply sceptical” that clinical commissioning groups can function at their best without buying in support services.
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Richmond CCG uses reserves to plug overspend
FINANCE: RIchmond CCG has used reserves and underspends in primary care commissioning and “corporate and public health costs” to offset overspends elsewhere.
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HSJ LocalHusband and wife take over at troubled £1bn hospital trust
STRUCTURE: A husband-and-wife team of former primary care trust leaders have been appointed as interim chief executive and turnaround director of the huge and troubled Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust.
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NewsHealth and wellbeing boards may control £1bn under integration plan
Health and wellbeing boards could be given control of more than £1bn funding from the Department of Health budget under plans being considered by ministers and local government leaders.
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Barts Health predicts breakeven but will miss savings target, says board
FINANCE: Barts Health Trust has downgraded its year-end surplus forecast but still plans to break even, a board report reveals.
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NewsExclusive: Surgeons may not be able to block performance data publication, NHS England believes
NHS England has received legal advice which says surgeons cannot block publication of their performance data, HSJ has been told.
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NewsUpdated: Investigators reveal CQC 'cover up' over Morecambe Bay
The suppression of a report criticising the Care Quality Commission’s regulatory oversight of scandal-hit University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay may well have constituted a deliberate cover up by senior management at the regulator, an independent investigation has concluded.
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Avon and Wiltshire moves from 'punitive to supportive' culture
PERFORMANCE: A mental health trust that was described as having “centralist, top down and target driven” culture less than a year ago has moved from “punitive to supportive”, a report has found.
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East Cheshire Trust plans for £16m income fall
FINANCE: East Cheshire Trust is planning for a £16m fall in income in 2013-14, board papers show.
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Three risk summits held in south west
PERFORMANCE: Risk summits have been held about three south west NHS organisations between October 2012 and 1 May this year.
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Mersey Care hires director of corporate governance and comms
STRUCTURE: Elaine Darbyshire has been appointed as the new executive director of corporate governance and communications at Mersey Care NHS Trust.
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New non-exec at Mersey Care Trust
STRUCTURE: Professor Brenda Roe has been appointed as a new non-executive director at Mersey Care NHS Trust.
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Royal Free London on track to hit A&E target
PERFORMANCE: The Royal Free London Foundation Trust is on track to hit the 95 per cent A&E target for the full year 2012-13, board papers reveal.
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Radiotherapy fund award to Clatterbridge Cancer Centre
FINANCE: Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded £680,000 from the Government’s £15m Cancer Radiotherapy Innovation Fund.
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Colchester Hospital University FT invites 12,000 women for breast cancer screening
PERFORMANCE: Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust has invited more than 12,000 women for breast screening.
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Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust appoints new medical director
WORKFORCE: Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust has appointed a new associate medical director.