News – Page 1404
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Devon Partnership exceeds savings plans
FINANCE: Devon Partnership Trust exceeded its QIPP target by £413,000 during 2010-11.
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Devon Partnership records ten suspected suicides this year
PERFORMANCE: There were ten probable suicides amongst patients known to Devon Partnership Trust during the first three months of 2011.
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Royal Devon and Exeter slips on cancer waiting target
PERFORMANCE: The Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust has tabled an internal exception report to its board after failing to meet the 62 day GP urgent referral to treatment target during quarter four.
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Milton Keynes FT expecting £6m deficit for 2010-11
FINANCE: Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has admitted that it is “very likely to be in significant breach of its terms of authorisation” after running up an estimated deficit of more than £6m during 2010-11.
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Fire leads to cancelled operations at Milton Keynes Hospital
PERFORMANCE: A fire at Milton Keynes Hospital led to services being disrupted, including 17 last-minute operation cancellations, the foundation trust’s board has been told.
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Heatherwood and Wexham Park given extension to resolve dispute
FINANCE: A foundation trust with high-profile financial difficulties has been given an extra three months to finalise its commissioner contract for 2011-12.
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North of Tyne PCTs expects break even despite acute overspend
FINANCE: The North of Tyne commissioners - Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland Care Trust - were on course to deliver surpluses for 2010-11, despite acute overspends.
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Significant overactivity payments for Newcastle FT
FINANCE: The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust had received £9.2m in overspend against contracts from its main commissioners as of the end of February .
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Readmissions penalty to cost Newcastle FT 'many millions'
FINANCE: The policy of penalising hospital trusts when their patients are readmitted within 30 days of discharge will cost The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust “many £millions”, it reports.
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NewsIncrease PFI plan values, managers told
NHS organisations should press for better value for money from existing private finance initiatives and find new ways of funding projects, according to a report by the National Audit Office.
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NewsExclusive: expert panel to advise prime minister on NHS
Number 10 Downing Street is establishing its own panel of senior health policy experts – including two former NHS chief executives – to advise the prime minister on NHS reform, HSJ has learned.
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NewsPM 'took GP's views out of context'
The GP at the centre of a row at prime minister’s questions last week has said his views on NHS reform were misrepresented.
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NewsGovernment warned public sector action will cause 'industrial turmoil'
The government has been warned it faces “industrial turmoil on a massive scale” as unions start planning to step up opposition to spending and job cuts.
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NewsAlcohol causing thousands of consultations every day, survey reveals
Alcohol was a factor in more than 5,500 GP consultations in Scotland on one day alone last month, according to a new survey.
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North West London Hospitals meets locally agreed A&E target
PERFORMANCE: The acute organisation said it faced a “significant challenge” in meeting the four-hour target but that a 97 per cent target agreed with commissioners had been hit.
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2gether FT appoints performance director and NEDs
WORKFORCE: Gloucestershire and Herefordshire’s 2gether NHS Foundation trust has made new staff appointments.
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London cluster adds £2m to transition costs budget
FINANCE: The south-west London cluster had set aside £2.8m fo transitional costs as it moves to a single management team from five primary care trusts but added £2m to it for additional costs.
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Kirklees PCT chief to lead cluster
STRUCTURE: Kirklees PCT chief executive Rob Webster is to lead a West Yorkshire cluster.
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Kirklees PCT agrees to take £1.8m off end of year surplus
FINANCE: Kirklees PCT spent £1.8m more than plan during 2011-12, after agreeing with the SHA to spend the additional funds on “organisational change”.
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Kent and Medway Partnership to shed 20 nursing posts
WORKFORCE: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust is expecting to cut around 20 qualified nursing positions over 2011-12.