All North East articles – Page 51
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Infections, screening and activity concern at Gateshead PCT
PERFORMANCE: Gateshead Primary Care Trust is in “performance escalation” with its strategic health authority for Chlamydia screening; healthcare associated infections and (over) activity.
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Infections, screening and activity concern at Sunderland PCT
PERFORMANCE: Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust is in “performance escalation” with its strategic health authority for Chlamydia screening; healthcare associated infections and (over) activity.
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City Hospitals Sunderland A&E waits concern
PERFORMANCE: Accident and emergency waits at City Hospitals Sunderland Foundation Trust during the second quarter of 2010-11 have been raised as a “particular concern”.
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Northumberland Care Trust records £6.8m overactivity
FINANCE: Northumberland Care Trust has recorded £6.849m acute overactivity so far in 2010-11.
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North Tyneside PCT records £3.5m overactivity
FINANCE: NHS North Tyneside is overperforming by £3.457m on acute activity so far in 2010-11.
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Newcastle PCT records £4m overactivity
FINANCE: Newcastle PCT is recording overperformance of £4.048m with acute providers so far in 2010-11.
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Newcastle FT board focuses on community services
STRUCTURE: The board is expecting close involvement in the “problematical and time-consuming” task of vertical integration with the community services from Newcastle Primary Care Trust.
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NHS Hartlepool cluster names executive team
STRUCTURE: NHS Hartlepool has clustered with NHS Middlesbrough, NHS Redcar and Cleveland and NHS Stockton-on-Tees, and several senior appointments have been made.
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NHS Middlesbrough cluster names executive team
STRUCTURE: NHS Middlesbrough has clustered with NHS Hartlepool, NHS Redcar and Cleveland and NHS Stockton-on-Tees, and several senior appointments have been made.
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NHS Redcar and Cleveland cluster names executive team
STRUCTURE: NHS Redcar and Cleveland has clustered with NHS Hartlepool, NHS Middlesbrough and NHS Stockton-on-Tees, and several senior appointments have been made.
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NHS Stockton-on-Tees cluster names executive team
STRUCTURE: NHS Hartlepool has clustered with NHS Middlesbrough, NHS Redcar and Cleveland and NHS Stockton-on-Tees, and several senior appointments have been made.
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Gateshead FT £400,000 behind plan
FINANCE: The trust had a planned surplus to date of £3,056,700 at month seven, however the actual position is a surplus of £2,619,000 giving an overall deficit against plan of £437,400.
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High MRSA breach risk at Northumbria Trust
PERFORMANCE: Very high risk of breaching annual MRSA incidence target.
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NewsUK tops European obesity league
The UK has performed poorly in an influential health and lifestyle study, recording the highest levels of obesity and teen pregnancy.
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NewsManagement posts shed without full consultation
Warnings are being issued about the lack of consultation over job cuts as posts are shed in an accelerated bid to meet the Department of Health’s 46 per cent management savings target.
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NewsPCTs expected to be ‘ordered’ to cluster
The Department of Health is likely to make mergers of primary care trusts a requirement in its operating framework for 2011-12, HSJ has been told.
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NewsSHAs contrast sharply on community proposals
The Transforming Community Services programme is taking primary care in different directions at opposite ends of the country, research by HSJ shows.
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NewsTransforming Community Services: PCTs step closer to deciding fate of provider arms
Primary care trusts are edging closer to determining the future of their provider arms.
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NewsDH critical of loophole in pension rules
The Department of Health has said community service social enterprises should not exploit a loophole that would allow them to give new staff access to the NHS pension scheme.
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NewsDon’t sideline sexual health, warn clinicians
Leading figures in sexual health have called on health secretary Andrew Lansley not to ignore the sector.