News – Page 1289
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Contract to wire North Bristol Trust new PFI hospital awarded
COMMERCIAL: Apex Wiring Solutions has won a multi-million pound contract to supply wiring for North Bristol Trust’s new £430m private finance initiative hospital.
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Bexley allowed to use SHA top-slice to pay off trust after losing arbitration
FINANCE: NHS Bexley has received permission to use the 2 per cent top-slice of budget levied on all London PCTs to pay the extra costs it will incur from South London Healthcare Trust.
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London cluster identifies 'almost certain' risk to high quality primary care
STRUCTURE: A risk register document produced by the south east London PCT cluster said 45 live “issues of concern” posed an “almost certain” risk to primary care.
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NewsMid Staffs warned on A&E staffing levels
The Care Quality Commission has issued Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust with a formal warning to improve staffing levels in accident and emergency or risk service closures.
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NewsHealth Bill analysis: Lords likely to win policy shifts
Key areas of policy will come under scrutiny as the Health Bill faces its critics in the House of Lords. HSJ analyses likely changes.
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NewsExclusive: Keogh warns NHS against 'blanket' treatment bans
NHS medical director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has warned that commissioners must not bring in “outright bans” on treatments or interventions.
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NewsDuty of Candour to be enforced through contracts
All organisations providing services to the NHS will be contractually obliged to inform patients and relatives if a mistake has been made under proposals set out by the government.
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NewsMS patient care not improving, report claims
NHS services for multiple sclerosis patients have barely improved at all in the past five years, a report has revealed.
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NewsHospital competition could 'negatively affect' quality
Competition between hospitals does not necessarily improve quality, new research has found.
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Plan to reduce workforce by 125 at Ashford and St Peter’s
WORKFORCE: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital FT plans to shed more than a hundred whole time equivalent posts over the next three years, while reducing agency use.
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Ashford and St Peter’s sets 4 per cent savings targets
FINANCE: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital FT wants to deliver annual recurring savings of 4 per cent until 2013-14.
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Reduced admissions targets set by Ashford and St Peter’
PERFORMANCE: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital FT intends to reduce emergency admissions by a quarter over the next three years.
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Ashford and St Peter’s aims for £7m surplus in 2014
FINANCE: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital FT says it plans to make a surplus of £7.3m in the financial year 2013-14, more than double its surplus last year.
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QVH plans to shut unit next April
STRUCTURE: Queen Victoria Hospital FT plans to divest itself of a loss making inpatient community ward in April 2012-13.
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Queen Victoria Hospital FT sets out surplus plans for next three years
FINANCE: Queen Victoria Hospital FT hopes to make a surplus of more than £2m next year though it predicts financial performance will have slipped to £1.6m by 2013-14.
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UK’s first mental health ‘recovery college’ opens in SW London
STRUCTURE: An education institution specifically aimed at teaching about mental health recovery has been formerly opened at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
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NHS Greenwich says it will probably need to dip into its top-slice
FINANCE: The south east London PCT says it will probably need to access the 2 per cent of its budget that NHS London top-sliced at the start of the financial year in order “to maintain its financial position”.
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Council's public meeting opposes Hartlepool A&E plans
STRUCTURE: A public vote at a Hartlepool Council-organised meeting expressed “no confidence” in the board of North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust.
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County Durham and Darlington stroke change proposals move forward
STRUCTURE: The joint board of NHS County Durham and Darlington will consider a proposal to consolidate a single site for hyperacute stroke services at the University Hospital of North Durham at a board meeting to be held in public on 1 November.
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NewsBMA 'alarmed' about CCGs excluding some GPs and LMCs
The British Medical Association GPs committee chair is “becoming increasingly alarmed” by how clinical commissioning groups are developing, he has said in a letter to GPs.