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Chair of rejected aspirant foundation trust resigns
WORKFORCE: The chair of the Royal Wolverhampton Trust has stepped down after the trust’s foundation trust bid was rejected by Monitor.
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NewsCommissioning board extends control as 'specialised' budget balloons
The budget for specialised commissioning will increase by more than 40 per cent, in a move which will centralise responsibility for many services.
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NewsUPDATED: Hunt advised to break up South London Healthcare
The trust special administrator this morning issued his draft report into the first organisation to face the NHS’s failure regime, recommending the trust is broken up.
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NewsPlans for South London Healthcare's future to be unveiled
Plans to solve the financial problems at an NHS trust which was taken over by an administrator for being on the brink of bankruptcy are to be outlined today.
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News£3.1bn spent over NHS pregnancy errors
Errors made by medical staff when caring for pregnant women have cost the NHS £3.1 billion over the last 10 years, figures show.
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HSJ LocalBolton Foundation Trust chief to step down
WORKFORCE: Lesley Doherty, chief executive of troubled Bolton Foundation Trust, has announced that she will take early retirement.
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NewsNHS 111 'unlikely to lead to emergency care savings'
There is only a one in five chance of NHS 111 saving the NHS money on urgent and emergency care and a likelihood it will drive up demand for ambulance services, an evaluation has found.
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NewsMonitor finds East Midlands FT in significant breach
Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust has been found in significant breach of its authorisation by Monitor amid concerns about performance including a failure to hit the accident and emergency waiting times target over an 18-month period.
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Who are the most influential people in the NHS and health policy?
The HSJ100 is our annual list of the most influential people in the NHS and English health policy.
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NewsHinchingbrooke receives cash advance after posting deficit
Privately-run Hinchingbrooke Healthcare Trust has negotiated a £4m cash advance on its service contract with its local primary care trust cluster to ease “cash flow issues” after posting a £4.1m in-year deficit.
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NewsBreast screening 'should be axed' - claim
The UK breast screening programme may be damaging more women’s lives than it saves and should be scrapped, according to a professor.
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NewsHunt urges culture of co-operation
The health secretary has called for a “culture of co-operation” across the health and social care systems, saying that too many people are “falling between the cracks”.
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GPs agree to give up financial interests in Virgin companies
The “vast majority” of GPs with shares in local Virgin Care provider companies have agreed to resign their financial stakes to remove potential conflicts of interest.
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DH backs a pay rise for staff despite NHS Employers fears
The Department of Health has backed a pay rise for NHS staff next year despite NHS Employers arguing it is unaffordable and could damage patient care.
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'RATing' improves Hillingdon Hospitals' A&E performance
PERFORMANCE: A report to the board of Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust said the introduction of the “RATing (rapid assessment and treatment)” had helped its A&E performance.
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Bristol DVT contract extended
COMMERCIAL: The Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS Bristol have agreed a 12 month extension to a contract for a community deep vein thrombosis service in the northern areas of the city.
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Birmingham cluster overperforms on UHB contract
FINANCE: The Birmingham and Solihull primary care trust cluster is overspending by £2.6m on its contract with University Hospitals Birmingham.
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Mental health trust joins with university to launch masters
Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership Trust has joined with the University of Wolverhampton to launch a masters degree in primary mental health care.
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‘Micro management’ deployed to tackle Stockport’s A&E performance
PERFORMANCE: Stockport Foundation Trust has missed the national four-hour waiting target for accident and emergency services for the first two quarters of 2012-13, NHS Greater Manchester’s latest board papers state.
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NewsCCG veto kills off trust's FT application
The chief executive of a community services trust has spoken of his “bitter disappointment” after a clinical commissioning group vetoed his organisation’s foundation trust bid.