News – Page 1481
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NHS Tameside & Glossop underspends by £706,000
FINANCE: The primary care trust was showing a surplus of £706,000 at the end of December, £44,000 behind its planned surplus to that date.
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NHS Stockport falls behind on savings plan
FINANCE: NHS Stockport was £4.1m behind on its savings plan at the end of December, latest board documents show.
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Pay costs over budget at West Suffolk Trust
WORKFORCE: Pay costs are £1.18m above budget at West Suffolk Hospital Trust due to agency costs.
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NHS Nottinghamshire County halves planned surplus
FINANCE: NHS Nottinghamshire County has agreed with NHS East Midlands to halve its predicted end of year £10m surplus after spending all its contingency reserves.
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East Midlands Ambulance Service failing on three of four targets
PERFORMANCE: East Midlands Ambulance Service is failing on three out of four response time targets.
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South Tyneside FT overperforming on A&E target
PERFORMANCE: South Tyneside Foundation Trust saw 99.2 per cent of A&E patients within four hours during November, despite winter pressures.
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Durham service change plans approved
STRUCTURE: The “Seizing the Future” reconfiguration programme in County Durham and Darlington has been retrospectively approved as passing the government’s four tests for such changes.
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Durham and Darlington FT reconfiguration approved
STRUCTURE: County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust’s “Seizing the Future” reconfiguration programme has been retrospectively approved as having passed the government’s four tests for such changes.
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NHS North Yorkshire and York gets 'additional allocation'
FINANCE: NHS Yorkshire & Humber gave £5.7m to the trust, which will also use it to buy a property from a local foundation trust.
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Sheffield Hospitals to merge vascular team
STRUCTURE: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust’s vascular service will join with that of Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust under regional proposals.
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Northumberland mental health trust seeks GP relationships
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY: Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Foundation Trust is seeking to develop its relationship with local GPs, anticipating the move to GP led commissioning.
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NHS Wakefield involving lead GPs in acute contract
FINANCE: NHS Wakefield District is involving commissioning consortia leads in agreeing its main acute contract.
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GPs involved in Mid Yorks 2011-12 contract
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY: Commissioning consortia GP leads are taking a role in developing Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust’s contract with NHS Wakefield District.
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NewsGroundbreaking radiotherapy equipment goes into service
A new radiotherapy device that could transform the way some cancer patients are treated will be used from today.
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NewsIoD calls for employment law overhaul
Collective pay bargaining in the NHS should go as part of an employment and planning law overhaul designed to kickstart the economy, business leaders have told the government.
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Sheffield 'likely' to delegate commissioning soon
STRUCTURE: NHS Sheffield is likely to build on practice based commissioning arrangements by delegating responsibility to consortia once structures are agreed, it has said.
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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells looks to Portugal for nurses
WORKFORCE: The Kent trust has successfully sourced new nursing recruits from Portugal and Ireland.
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Surrey Healthcare concludes savings target is 'unachievable'
FINANCE: The trust has failed to make the savings it planned and has been categorised formally as “underperforming”.
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Surrey Healthcare still holds ambition to apply for FT status in 2013
STRUCTURE: The trust’s chief executive says he remains positive about its planned application for foundation status in two year’s time, despite the organisation’s uncertain financial position.
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Royal Surrey ‘mitigates’ against weather with block contract
FINANCE: The foundation trust has agreed a block contract with its primary care trust, NHS Surrey, for the remainder of the year.