All North West articles – Page 106
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NHS North of England appoints non-executive directors
WORKFORCE: The newly formed cluster of strategic health authorities has announced the non-executive directors appointed to its board.
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NW Ambulance Service sees sharp improvement in response times
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s performance against its response target for immediately life threatening “Category A” calls improved dramatically in late summer, its latest performance report shows.
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Potential industrial action at two North West path labs, Unite warns
WORKFORCE: Two acute trusts in the North West could face industrial action in their pathology labs.
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The Christie consults on potential increase in private patient work
COMMERCIAL: The foundation has launched a consultation asking the public whether it should do more private patient work to help fund its NHS services.
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University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay withdraws bid to take over neighbouring trust
STRUCTURE: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust has pulled out of the competition to take over a neighbouring trust, after Monitor declared it in “significant breach” of its authorisation.
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Morecambe Bay FT in breach of FT authorisation terms
PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust regulator Monitor has announced that University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust is in significant breach of the terms of its authorisation.
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Lab scientists to vote on industrial action at Central Manchester FT
WORKFORCE: Biomedical scientists at Central Manchester University Hospitals are to be balloted for industrial action which their union warns could force the foundation trust to close at night.
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Hospital pharmacy shop opens at East Cheshire
COMMERCIAL: An over-the-counter pharmacy shop has been opened this month at Macclesfield District General Hospital.
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CommentChange plans grind to a halt in the North West
Change takes forever in the NHS. So long, sometimes, that by the time your plan is finally agreed it is out of date, or there are different people in charge and they want to develop a new plan.
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Savings shortfall leaves Southport and Ormskirk surplus 96 per cent behind plan
FINANCE: Failure to meet cost improvement programme savings targets has left the trust with a surplus of just £59,000 for the first five months of 2011-12, against a planned surplus of £728,000.
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East Cheshire Trust £4.1m behind on savings plans
FINANCE: At the end of August the trust was £4.1m behind on its £14.6m cost improvement programme savings plan for 2011-12, its latest finance report shows.
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North Cumbria finances remain ‘very fragile’ with £7m shortfall in savings plan
FINANCE: After the first five months of 2011-12 the trust had achieved cost improvement programme savings of just £3m, against a target of £15.2m for the year.
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NHS Cumbria asks for recovery plan to avert £4m acute care overspend
FINANCE: The primary care trust recorded a surplus of £145,000 for the first five months of 2011-12, against a plan to have under spent by £1.7m by that point in the financial year.
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NHS Oldham forecasts £5.3m savings shortfall
FINANCE: The primary care trust was forecasting at the end of July that it would miss its 2011-12 QIPP (quality, innovation, productivity and prevention) savings plans by £5.3m.
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NHS Cumbria £1.6m behind on savings plan at end of August
FINANCE: The primary care trust’s 2011-12 cost improvement programme savings were £1.6m behind target at the end of August, strategic health authority figures show.
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NewsMonitor threatens collective punishment for Greater Manchester over cancer
Monitor has threatened to downgrade the governance ratings of nine foundation trusts in Greater Manchester if waiting times at the Christie Foundation Trust do not improve in the next six months.
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'No conflict' in contract awarded to private company associated with commissioners
COMMERCIAL: A clinical commissioning group in the Wirral has awarded a place on a register of “any qualified providers” to a private company associated with most of the GP practices on the group’s board.
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Charities pledge £1m to Southport cancer centre
FINANCE: Two charities have pledged £1m towards refurbishing and extending a cancer treatment centre for patients in north Sefton and West Lancashire.
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SHA calls ‘risk summit’ over Morecambe Bay maternity services
PERFORMANCE: NHS North West has called a “risk summit” with University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust, regulators and local commissioners to ensure the safety of its maternity services, the strategic health authority’s chief executive has reported.
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Central Lancashire CCGs ask to work as separate committees
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust’s board will be asked to break up the joint committee it agreed to establish for clinical commissioning groups, board papers for its meeting this week show.