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Conditions lifted at Swindon CCG
STRUCTURE: NHS Swindon Clinical Commissioning Group has had all of its conditions of authorisation lifted following a review by NHS England.
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Ambulance performance on the mend in Warwickshire
PERFORMANCE: Ambulance turnaround performance in the Coventry and Rugby clinical commissioning group area improved dramatically in May, but remained below target.
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CCG unable to monitor provider contract due to lack of data
FINANCE: Coventry and Rugby clinical commissioning group can only assume its main acute provider contract is breaking even due to a lack of data.
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NewsProton cancer therapy coming to UK
Cancer patients who currently travel abroad for a special type of radiotherapy will be able to get it in the UK from 2018.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England apologises after major complaints 'backlog'
National officials have apologised “unreservedly” after the handling of thousands of complaints about GPs and dentists was delayed following the handover to the reformed NHS system.
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NewsCQC 'brutally discredited' Bower and Finney
Former Care Quality Commission executives were “hung out to dry” by a “flawed process” after chief executive David Behan ignored warnings about potential problems with the work of an independent review, it has been alleged.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England chief executive job description
NHS England is advertising for an “honest, open and transparent” individual to become its chief executive.
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Barts fined for year-plus waiters
PERFORMANCE: Barts Health Trust has been fined £250,000 for patients that have waited more than a year for treatment.
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Lancashire Teaching Hospitals £1.2m in deficit at 31 May
FINANCE: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals recorded a deficit of £1.2m for the first two months of 2013-14, £0.7m higher than planned.
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Chiltern CCG overspends on care
FINANCE: Chiltern clinical commissioning group was £793,000 overspent on planned and unscheduled care at the end of May.
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Warwickshire North aims for £4.84m QIPP savings
FINANCE: Warwickshire North clinical commissioning group is planning to make efficiency savings of £4.84m in 2013-14.
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Chiltern CCG plans integrated care to cut social care use
PERFORMANCE: Chiltern Clinical Commissioning Group is planning to cut both emergency admissions and the use of social care by a quarter by 2017, through the introduction of integrated models of health and social care.
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CQC lifts concerns about Weston
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has lifted the three warning notices it placed on Weston Area Health Trust earlier this year.
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Pay overspend at South Devon
WORKFORCE: South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust was overspent on pay by £1.7m at the end of quarter one.
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Papworth misses cancer target after ‘poor’ performance
Papworth Hospital Foundation Trust failed to achieve its 62-day cancer target after a “poor” first quarter performance, according to board papers.
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Below average FFT score for Surrey and Sussex Healthcare
PERFORMANCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust scored an average of 54 for accident and emergence and 52 for inpatients in the “friends and family” test over the first quarter of 2013-14.
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Western Sussex Hospitals beats FFT average score in first quarter
PERFORMANCE: Western Sussex Hospitals Trust scored an average of 53 for accident and emergence and 80 for inpatients in the “friends and family” test over the first quarter of 2013-14.
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NewsSpecial administrator recommends dissolving Mid Staffs
The special administrators appointed to Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have recommended the organisation is dissolved and its maternity service closes.
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Royal Surrey County scores below average in FFT first round
PERFORMANCE: Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust scored an average of 54 for accident and emergence and 56 for inpatients in the “friends and family” test over the first quarter of 2013-14.
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Queen Victoria Hospital scores well in FFT first quarter
PERFORMANCE: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust scored an average of 88 for inpatients in the “friends and family” test over the first quarter of 2013-14.