News – Page 1388
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Moorfields selected to provide community opthamology services in SW London
STRUCTURE: The specialist trust has been chosen by commissioners to provide community eye services working out of its Queen Mary’s Roehampton and Teddington Memorial Hospital.
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Liverpool Women's seeks to form national alliance to lobby for maternity care providers
FINANCE: The foundation has written to the chief executives of all trusts delivering 5,000 or more children a year to consider forming a “national alliance”, as part of its effort to lobby against changes to the maternity tariff.
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New software gives UHB access to data from other trusts
COMMERCIAL: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust has implemented new software providing secure access to patient data from neighbouring trusts.
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Winchester and Eastleigh risks missing £9.4m savings target
FINANCE: Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust has red-rated its £9.4m service improvement target for 2011-12, having only finished last year in the black thanks to a strategic health authority bail-out.
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Capita set to take on HR for Liverpool trusts in £27m deal
COMMERCIAL: Outsourcing firm Capita Group has announced it has been appointed as preferred provider of human resources, payroll, and recruitment services for up to 12 NHS organisations in north Mersey.
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NHS Wiltshire plans early transfer of public health to local council
WORKFORCE: Public health staff at NHS Wiltshire are to be consulted on transfering to the local authority under plans for Wiltshire Council to become an early adopter of government proposals to integrate public health into local government.
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SW London cluster considers hospital pathology and pharmacy consolidation
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust cluster has launched a clinically-led review of services across the health economy and said consolidation options were being looked at across its acute trusts.
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Durham and Darlington hospitals struggling with A&E capacity
PERFORMANCE: County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has been struggling to meet accident and emergency waiting times requirements.
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PCTs hand University Hospitals Leicester £15m productivity fund
FINANCE: University Hospitals of Leicester Trust has been given £15m of top-sliced funds to spend on improving productivity.
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Western Sussex Hospitals finished 2010-11 with £5.2m surplus
FINANCE: The trust finished 2010-11 with a £5.2m surplus but has fallen behind plan so far this year, according to board papers.
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Former West Kent chief exec leaves SHA role for Qatar
WORKFORCE: NHS South East Coast regional director of provider development Steve Phoenix is to leave the strategic health authority in September.
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New chief exec for Walton Centre Foundation Trust
WORKFORCE: The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust on Merseyside has appointed an HR specialist as its new chief executive.
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Darlington PCT overspent on non-NHS provider
FINANCE: Darlington PCT was due to meet its overall surplus plan for 2010-11, despite recording significant over-performance on its contracts with independent sector treatment centres.
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SLAM to work with Microsoft on patient record plan
COMMERCIAL: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has announced it is working with Microsoft to develop and personal online health record for mental health patients.
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Derbyshire PCTs told to be less 'controlling'
PERFORMANCE: The Derbyshire cluster has been told it needs to be less “controlling” and should be putting more effort into developing consortia.
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Bassetlaw cluster appointments made
WORKFORCE: A number of appointments have been made to the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw cluster.
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NewsBlood service looks set to remain in house
The head of the NHS blood service has expressed optimism it will escape part-privatisation amid suggestions the government is worried about the public backlash against private involvement in public services.
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NewsInternational index finds UK obesity growing
A new international index launched online today has highlighted the UK’s worsening obesity problem.
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Epsom and St Helier launches plans to save £18.7m this year
WORKFORCE: Epsom and St Helier has announced it needs to save £18.7m by March 2012 to help close the gap between income and expenditure.
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NewsSharp rise in young attending A&E
There has been a dramatic rise in the number of children taken to A&E departments with common illnesses, research suggests.