News – Page 1121
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Yeovil finished year ahead of plan on surplus
FINANCE: Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust finished the year with a surplus of £993,000, £718,000 more than planned.
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HSJ LocalControversial vascular services restructure gets green light
Primary care trust cluster NHS Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral has approved a controversial plan for the reconfiguration of vascular services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
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NHS London approves £150k+ severance payment to very senior manager
WORKFORCE: The minutes of the strategic health authority’s remuneration committee said it had reviewed “one severance case [worth more than £150k] and approved it since the last report to the board [in March].”
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News'Developmental' CCG authorisation process gets underway
The authorisation of clinical commissioning groups will be an “iterative process” – with organisations able to correct their weaknesses throughout the process – government regulations have confirmed.
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NewsPCTs restricting access to sexual health services - report
MPs have warned the government that soem trusts are actively restricting women from accessing contraceptive services, in a new report published today.
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NewsC difficile penalties to remain despite concerns
The Department of Health has rejected calls to make the penalties for breaching C difficile targets more proportionate but promised to keep the situation under review, HSJ has learned.
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Staff shortage closes children's ward to admissions
A children’s ward has stopped admitting patients for three weeks due to a staff shortage.
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NewsMorecambe Bay withheld damning report from regulators, probe finds
Monitor is to toughen disclosure rules for would-be foundation trusts, after a probe found University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay withheld information that could have led regulators to discover its major care failures sooner.
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Hospital and paramedic staff suspended after A&E death
WORKFORCE: Eleven NHS staff have been suspended by a Midlands hospital and West Midlands Ambulance service after an A&E patient collapsed and died.
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NewsJust nine CSS managing directors appointed
Just nine out of the 23 managing director posts for commissioning support services have been recruited, it is announced today.
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NewsNHS Propco could 'destabilise' local health economies, social enterprises warn
Department of Health plans to create an independent property company to take over primary care trusts’ estate are likely to have a “considerable destabilising effect on local health economies”, social enterprises have claimed.
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NewsSurgeons in warning over old equipment
Financial constraints on the NHS could lead to doctors operating on patients with outdated equipment, surgeons have warned.
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NewsEnd-of-life care pathway 'used to cut costs'
Hospitals may be withholding food and drink from older patients so they die quicker to cut costs and save on bad spaces, leading doctors have warned.
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Central Manchester CCG plans £4.6m QIPP savings
FINANCE: The clinical commissioning group has developed quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) plans for savings totalling £4.6m in 2012-13.
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Kent prisons adopt new rehab service
COMMERCIAL: Kent has backed a new drug and alcohol treatment model to stop addiction and re-offending.
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Anti smoking push in Sussex schools
STRUCTURE: Sussex Community NHS Trust stop smoking service has launched a stop smoking education resource for teachers delivering personal, social and health education lessons to year 8-11.
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Nominations open for Western Sussex’s first governor elections
STRUCTURE: Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust is asking its 7,500 public members to stand for election to its first Council of Governors.
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Bowel campaign scuppers attempts to cut diagnostic waits
PERFORMANCE: Long diagnostic waits in Birmingham and Solihull have been blamed on the Heart of England Foundation Trust and a national bowel screening drive.
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East Cheshire A&E introduces electronic clinical information system for GPs
COMMERCIAL: East Cheshire NHS Trust’s A&E Department can now collate and send clinical patient information to GPs electronically for all patients that attend the department.
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Birmingham and Solihull faces £16.9m QIPP shortfall
FINANCE: Commissioners in Birmingham and Solihull have reported a £16.9m gap in their efficiency savings plans, accounting for 29 per cent of the total for this year.