News – Page 1157
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Reducing emergency admissions key for Derby FT
Derby Hospitals Foundation Trust will seek to cut its number of emergency admissions to help it save £24.6m
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Foundation trust criticises NHS London's nurse workforce planning
WORKFORCE: London’s largest foundation trust has criticised NHS London’s policy on nurse workforce planning.
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NewsExclusive: Plans for national communications service scrapped
Plans to set up a national communications service for clinical commissioning groups have been abandoned, HSJ has learnt.
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Consultation on new GP centre
STRUCTURE: NHS North Staffordshire has launched a public consultation to ask the local community to help design a new primary care centre.
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Patients to 'self check-in' at Robert Jones
SERVICES: Patients at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital Foundation Trust will be able to ‘self check-in’ at a new £2.7m hospital entrance.
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Wasted medicines costing Leicestershire £5.6m
Unused and wasted medicines are costing the NHS in Leicestershire £5.6m a year, it has been revealed.
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Text message service launched to reduce missed appointments
SERVICES: Princess Alexandra Hospital is setting up a text message service in a bid to reduce missed appointments.
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Renal service becomes biggest in East of England
SERVICES: Patients in Bedford and Harlow will be able to get dialysis closer to home thanks to two planned satellite renal dialysis units.
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Colchester improves communication with care homes
SERVICES: Staff at Colchester General Hospital and Essex County Hospital are working more closely with local care homes to improve communication about patients.
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Strike threat as paid tea breaks scrapped at Cambridge
Staff at Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust could be balloted on industrial action in a row over pay cuts.
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Royal Cornwall fined £130,000
FINANCE: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has been fined £46,000 for breaches of rules on mixed sex accommodation and £85,525 for ambulance handover times longer than 15 minutes.
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Greater Manchester trust to take over Cumbria drug recovery services
STRUCTURE: The trust has won a contract to take over the running of alcohol and drugs recovery services in Cumbria from 1 July 2012, it reported last week.
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Waiting times risk rating worsens at Shropshire's orthopaedic trust
More than a third of admitted patients at Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital FT had to wait longer than 18 weeks to be treated.
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Minister denies cutting Welsh NHS budget
PERFORMANCE: Wales’s health minister Lesley Griffiths has said she will not be taking any lessons from her party’s rivals the Conservatives when it comes to the NHS.
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NHS Hillingdon awards NHS 111 pilot contract to Harmoni
COMMERCIAL: The north west London primary care trust awarded the £1.3m contract to the Watford-based provider as part of the national wave two of the NHS 111 service pilots.
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South Tyne FT overhauls appraisal for senior medics
WORKFORCE: South Tyneside Foundation Trust had overhauled its senior medical appraisal process.
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New chief executive to start at Calderdale FT
WORKFORCE: Owen Williams, the new Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust chief executive, is due to start imminently.
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Northern Devon ahead on surplus
FINANCE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust finished 2011-12 with a surplus of £1.6m about £23,000 ahead of its revised agreed plan with NHS South of England.
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Infection rates slashed at Lincolnshire hospitals
Infection rates at United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust have been dramatically slashed over the last five years, the trust has claimed.
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Birmingham FT £1.8m behind on CIP
FINANCE: University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust achieved 91 per cent of its £18.8m cost improvement plan savings in 2011-12.