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Aintree Hospitals Foundation Trust to lose some gynaecology activity under PCT proposal

2011-02-09T14:59:00Z

Structure: Aintree Hospitals Foundation Trust stands to lose some of its gynaecology activity under its local primary care trust’s plans to move inpatient and some day case gynaecology activity from Aintree to Liverpool Women’s Foundation Trust.

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Liverpool Women's FT fails to meet maternity access target

2011-02-09T14:56:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Liverpool Women’s Foundation Trust is failing to meet the agreed standard for accessing maternity pathways, its local primary care trust, NHS Liverpool, says.

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Liverpool Women's FT to gain in-patient and day case gynaecology activity from Aintree FT

2011-02-09T14:45:00Z

STRUCTURE: Liverpool Women’s Foundation Trust stands to increase its activity under its local primary care trust’s plans to move inpatient and some day case gynaecology activity from Aintree Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to the women’s hospital.

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Pennine care on the cusp of taking over Oldham community services

2011-02-09T14:44:00Z

STRUCTURE: The foundation has completed its due diligence review of Oldham Community Health Services and brought the organisation under its auspices ‘in shadow form’ on 10 January.

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Cumbria Partnership seeks to repatriate high-cost patients to local services

2011-02-09T14:27:00Z

FINANCE: The mental health foundation trust is working with NHS Cumbria to find ways of ‘repatriating’ high-cost patients to local providers.

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Liverpool PCT sets out finance challenges for GP commissioners

2011-02-09T13:10:00Z

FINANCE: At the first meeting of the PCT’s interim GP commission board, held in December, the PCT’s head of information and intelligence described the key features of the city’s £900m commissioning spend.

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Trafford scrambles for extra savings to avert deficit

2011-02-09T12:55:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust was forced to find an additional £6m of savings halfway through the financial year, after realising its “most likely” financial result for 2010/11 was a £2.25m deficit.

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Pennine Acute will need to cut costs by £22.5m to manage tariff cut

2011-02-09T11:19:00Z

FINANCE: The trust will have to find savings of £22.5m in 2011/12 to make up for nationally directed price cuts of 1.5 per cent, latest board papers show.

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Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT in discussion with over performing provider

2011-02-09T11:05:00Z

FINANCE: Over performance by secondary care providers has significantly reduced the year-end forecast for NHS Ashton, Leigh and Wigan, but the primary care trust is still predicting a surplus.

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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh FT predicted to over perform by £3.4m

2011-02-09T11:00:00Z

FINANCE:  Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Foundation Trust is predicted to over perform on its contracts with NHS Ashton, Leigh and Wigan by £3.4m.

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East Lancs PCT gets GPs on board with public health campaign

2011-02-09T10:58:00Z

STRUCTURE: The primary care trust held an event in January to bring local GPs together to discuss the PCT’s “role in supporting communities to live longer, healthier lives” ahead of the transition to commissioning consortia.

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NHS East Lancs sets £83m five-year savings target

2011-02-09T10:56:00Z

FINANCE: NHS East Lancashire predicts it will have to save nearly £83m over the next five years to meet the government targets set in the operating framework.

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Sick days rise at Lancashire Care in December

2011-02-09T10:54:00Z

WORKFORCE: The foundation lost £580,156 to sick days in December as its sickness abscence rate rose to 7 per cent.

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NHS Halton & St Helens slipping off-track for end-of-year surplus

2011-02-09T10:42:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust is forecasting a year-end deficit due to over spends across its providers.

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NHS Manchester tells OOH provider to review its Christmas performance

2011-02-09T10:38:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The primary care trust said its out of hours service came under significant pressure during the festive period, resulting in waits of up to six hours for a GP visit.

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Warrington & Halton Hospitals forced to divert patients to other emergency departments

2011-02-09T10:29:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Warrrington & Halton Hospitals FT has been forced to divert patients to other A&E departments on four occasions over the winter period, Department of Health data shows.

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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals delays women and children unit to help balance books

2011-02-09T10:23:00Z

FINANCE: The foundation calculated that its decision to delay construction work on its new women and children’s unit would defer spending of £1.5m and help it avoid finishing 2010/11 in deficit, board documents show.

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Sick leave numbers hit 12-month peak at Alder Hey

2011-02-09T10:10:00Z

WORKFORCE: Alder Hey lost 5,496 work days in November due to staff illness, the highest monthly rate of sickness abscence for the foundation in 12 months.

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Clatterbridge mulls participation in Liverpool academic health sciences centre bid

2011-02-09T08:46:00Z

STRUCTURE: The foundation is contributing to work to revisit plans for an academic health sciences centre in Liverpool, after an initial bid was turned down by the Department of Health.

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Draft plan: Western Cheshire will need to find £15m savings to break even next year

2011-02-08T18:46:00Z

FINANCE: The primary care trust will have to find savings of £15m in 2011/12 to break even for the year, draft plans forecast.