News – Page 991
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Birmingham FT releases reserves to cover deficit
FINANCE: University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust is forecasting a better than expected surplus, but only after releasing contingency funds to plug a financial gap.
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NewsKelsey plans iPad app to provide patient 'insight'
The NHS Commissioning Board has outlined fresh details of its drive to bring together information from a range of official and unofficial sources to provide a picture of NHS service providers’ quality.
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CCGs warn they risk being 'saddled with inherited debt'
Clinical commissioning groups have warned they are at risk of being “saddled with an inherited debt” when they take on their new powers, as a result of an onslaught of retrospective claims for NHS continuing healthcare funding.
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NewsExclusive: Merging Dorset trusts could be banned from talking
The two providers involved in the first merger of two foundation trusts could be prevented from freely communicating with each other while the Competition Commission reviews the case, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMinister defends tendering rules
Health minister Lord Howe has defended the government’s regulations on competition, which have been criticised after being laid before Parliament.
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Complaint sparks police involvement at Kent neuro unit
WORKFORCE: A member of staff at a neuro-rehabilitation unit has been suspended and a police investigation launched after a complaint from a patient’s family about their care.
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New medical director for Ashford and St Peter’s
WORKFORCE: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed Dr David Fluck as substantive medical director.
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NewsAnalysed: The continuing care claims deluge
PCTs face a £600m bill for backdated claims for care funding, and this is causing anxiety for clinical commissioning groups too
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Maidstone and Tunbridge CIPs ‘under-delivering’
FINANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is at significant risk of failing to hit its savings target for cost improvement plans, according to board papers.
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Norovirus hits wards at Mid Staffs
Four wards at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have been affected by norovirus.
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Barts £10.5m behind on savings plan
FINANCE: Barts Health Trust is £10.5m behind on its £43.4m savings plan at month nine.
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Sheffield care trust records larger than expected surplus
FINANCE: Sheffield Health and Social Care Foundation Trust is reporting a surplus of £3.8m to the end of December against a planned £2.4m .
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Concern over rising demand for Birmingham acute services
FINANCE: Higher than expected levels of demand for services at University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust have been described as the “main cause for concern” by Birmingham South and Central clinical commissioning group.
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UCLH raises governance rating concerns with Monitor
FINANCE: The chief executive of University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust Sir Robert Naylor has written to Monitor to express concerns about the governance rating of the trust, board papers reveal.
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Vacancies drive strong finance performance for Birmingham and Solihull FT
FINANCE: Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust is forecasting a year-end breakeven, better than the original planned deficit of £2.7m.
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UCLH on track to save £108m over three years
FINANCE: Minutes of a board meeting reveal University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust is on track to make £108m in recurrent savings by the end of 2012-13.
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Hampshire Hospitals on track to beat surplus target
FINANCE: Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust achieved a surplus of £4.6m in the year to October, £1.3m ahead of plan.
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NHS Suffolk on course to hit financial target before close down
FINANCE: NHS Suffolk achieved its target £0.8m surplus at 31 December 2012, and is forecast to deliver its target £1.1m surplus for the full year in 2012-13.
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Surrey Heath CCG authorised with seven conditions
STRUCTURE: Surrey Heath Clinical Commissioning Group has been authorised but with seven conditions.
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Hastings and Rother CCG authorised with conditions
STRUCTURE: Hastings and Rother Clinical Commissioning Group has been authorised but with seven conditions.