News – Page 1147
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Exclusive: HSJ Clinical Commissioning Groups Map Tool
HSJ reveals the 212 clinical commissioning groups authorised to go forward as announced by the Commissioning Board today.
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News'Landmark' agreement on 212 CCGs covering England
The NHS reforms have reached the “landmark moment” of agreeing the clinical commissioning groups which will go forward to take over budgets next year, the NHS Commissioning Board has said.
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Norfolk and Norwich at risk of breaching authorisation
One of the East of England’s largest foundation trusts is at risk of being found in breach of its authorisation by Monitor.
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Treasury targets off-payroll public sector salaries
The chief secretary to the Treasury has stressed that all public sector employees “should be on the payroll and paying the correct amount of tax”.
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NewsMinimum alcohol price set to become law
Plans for minimum alcohol pricing will be approved in Scotland today, which will become in the process the first part of the UK to pass the legislation.
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NewsOmbudsman's claims on care quality complaint 'did not stand up '
An apparent failure to fully investigate a high profile complaint has led to a renewed call for changes to the system.
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NewsOvernight discharge data questioned as hospitals hit back
Misleading data has emerged as a possible explanation for claims that hospitals discharge large numbers of patients in the middle of the night.
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NewsDH unveils plans for increased competition in diagnostics and mental health
The Department of Health has unveiled its strategy for extending competition from any qualified provider to new areas of NHS care, including mental health and diagnostic tests.
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NewsFT ambitions will be 'very challenging' for community trusts
A leading provider of integrated health and social care looks set to abandon its ambitions to become a standalone community foundation trust in a move lawyers say could be repeated elsewhere.
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NewsExclusive: acutes' deficit and savings performance worsens, DH figures show
Plans to cut deficits in the acute trust sector fell further behind in the third quarter of 2011-12 as hospitals struggled to make up lost ground on challenging savings targets.
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Western Sussex in hospital 'top 40'
PERFORMANCE: Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust has been named among the CHKS 40Top Hospitals for the fourth time at an awards ceremony in London.
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Whittington sets two year savings target
FINANCE: Whittington Health Trust has set a savings target of £38.9m over next two years.
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Block contract trust sets two-year deal with commissioners
FINANCE: Whittington Health Trust has agreed a two-year block contract deal with commissioners
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West Yorks PCTs QIPP plan not signed off due to cash problems
FINANCE: The 2012-13 quality, innovation, productivity and prevention plan for the Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield PCT Cluster has not been finally signed off, an SHA cluster board report notes.
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North Yorkshire and York struggling on QIPP
FINANCE: A strategic health authority cluster summary shows North Yorkshire and York PCT is struggling to meet and plan for quality, innovation, productivity and prevention savings.
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County Durham & Darlington overshoots 2011-12 QIPP
FINANCE: NHS County Durham & Darlington achieved 109 per cent of its planned QIPP savings target for 2011-12.
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Plan to double radiotherapy service in Sussex
PERFORMANCE: NHS organisations in Sussex have announced plans to more than double radiotherapy provision by 2014, with the help of the private sector.
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Yorks & Humber trusts remain outliers on mortality
PERFORMANCE: Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Health Care NHS Trust remain outliers on hospital-level mortality indicators, according to an SHA cluster report.
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NHS North West London makes 82pc of QIPP target
FINANCE: The cluster of eight primary care trusts in north west London had set itself a savings target of £142.3m in 2011-12 but achieved £116.5m.
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NW London providers set to learn cluster's service change proposals
STRUCTURE: The provider trusts and clinical commissioning groups of north west London are to be sent a letter with the proposals for service changes on 8 June.