All North West articles – Page 114
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HSJ Local
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals drafts plan to cut out £1.5m of management costs
WORKFORCE: A document presented to the foundation’s 30 March board meeting outlined draft plans to save £1.5m by “streamlining” its clinical management.
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HSJ Local
Official opening for new mental health unit at Pennine Care
STRUCTURE: The trust has officially opened a £13.6m mental health unit at its Birch Hill Hospital site in Rochdale.
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HSJ Local
Liverpool Women's seeks to form national alliance to lobby for maternity care providers
FINANCE: The foundation has written to the chief executives of all trusts delivering 5,000 or more children a year to consider forming a “national alliance”, as part of its effort to lobby against changes to the maternity tariff.
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HSJ Local
Capita set to take on HR for Liverpool trusts in £27m deal
COMMERCIAL: Outsourcing firm Capita Group has announced it has been appointed as preferred provider of human resources, payroll, and recruitment services for up to 12 NHS organisations in north Mersey.
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HSJ Local
New chief exec for Walton Centre Foundation Trust
WORKFORCE: The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust on Merseyside has appointed an HR specialist as its new chief executive.
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HSJ Local
Lancs FT paid £169,000 in severance over past two years
WORKFORCE: The foundation trust has made severance pay outs of £169,467 to departing employees over the past two years, figures released by the Public Accounts Committee show.
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HSJ Local
Blackpool and North Lancs to consult on four hospital closures
STRUCTURE: Primary care trusts in Blackpool and North Lancashire are preparing to consult local residents on the possible closure of four hospitals across the Fylde coast, board documents reveal.
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HSJ Local
Central Manchester FT made £150,000 pay-out to departing employee
WORKFORCE: The foundation spent £150,000 on a “special severance payment” to a departing employee, figures published today show.
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HSJ Local
NHS Blackpool to consult on possible closure of four hospitals
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust is planning to consult on a savings plan which could result in the closure of four community hospitals across the Fylde coast area, board documents show.
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HSJ Local
Blackburn with Darwen surplus was ahead of plan in January
FINANCE: The care trust plus was reporting a 2010-11 in-year surplus of £1.195m against its NHS commissioning and provider services budgets at the end of January, £23,000 above its planned surplus to that point of the year.
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HSJ Local
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals secures £19m working capital facility from Barclays
FINANCE: The financially troubled foundation secured a £19m working capital facility from Barclays in the last days of 2010-11, board papers show.
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HSJ Local
Loss of maternity services could harm Salford Royal death rate stats
PERFORMANCE: The loss of its maternity services, moves to reduce short-stay admissions and the introduction of a new national mortality indicator could push up the foundation trust’s recorded death rates, board papers have warned.
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HSJ Local
NHS Ashton, Leigh and Wigan outlines £13.4m savings plans for 2011-12
FINANCE: The primary care trust has identified £13.4m of “firm savings” it can make to bridge its 2011-12 “funding gap”, board papers show.
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HSJ Local
Five serious incidents at Calderstones in March
PERFORMANCE: The foundation’s performance report recorded five serious incidents in March, including three it classified as serious untoward incidents.
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HSJ Local
Local critical care tariff 'key income risk' for The Christie
FINANCE: The foundation has identified the potential introduction in its area of local tariff prices for critical care as a “key income risk”, its draft plan for 2011-12 shows.
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HSJ Local
NICE shortlists Central Manchester University Hospitals for award
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s home haemodialysis team, which is based at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, has been shortlisted for a NICE Shared Learning Award.
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HSJ Local
East Lancs Hospitals amber-green against foundation trust standards
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s February performance would have been rated amber-green against foundation trust regulator Monitor’s compliance framework, a report to its April board meeting states.
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HSJ Local
Manchester mental health trust plans to escape PFI premises
FINANCE: Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust could be left with a £3.6m-a-year white elephant if a local mental health provider wins backing to vacate its premises on patient safety grounds.
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HSJ Local
East Cheshire NHS Trust shortlisted for coding award
PERFORMANCE: East Cheshire NHS Trust has been shortlisted for the CHKS data quality award for England.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to develop an affordable approach to workforce planning
A competence based approach piloted by NHS North West is showing great potential to achieve affordable workforce planning, as the authority’s assistant director of workforce strategy Robert Sumpter reports.