All North West articles – Page 99
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HSJ Local
Bridge built between Aintree and the Walton Centre
STRUCTURE: Aintree University Hospitals and the Walton Centre have announced plans for a £2m bridge between the two foundation trusts, to allow rapid transfer of patients with serious head injuries.
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HSJ Local
Tameside and Glossop tenders for 40 intermediate care beds
COMMERCIAL: The primary care trust is inviting bids for a contract worth as much as £10m to provide up to 40 community-based intermediate care beds in the locality.
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NewsNorth Cumbria takeover bidder estimated it would need £78m over two years
FINANCE: The preferred bidder to take over North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust has estimated it needs the government to pump £78m of financial support into the troubled trust over the next two years.
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HSJ Local
Bury pulls ‘contractual levers’ over Pennine Acute cancer waits
PERFORMANCE: NHS Bury has “enforced contractual levers” in a bid to increase the speed at which the trust refers patients in need of specialist cancer treatment, board papers state.
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HSJ Local
Morecambe Bay incident ‘gold command’ may stand down
PERFORMANCE: NHS North of England will consider “in the immediate future” whether to stand down the strategic coordinating team that mobilised in response to patient safety issues at the Morecambe Bay trust, board papers state.
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HSJ Local
Preferred bidder could start running North Cumbria before takeover cleared
STRUCTURE: Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust could take over day-to-day management of North Cumbria from April, months before its proposed acquisition of the trust can be completed, board papers state.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: national commissioning leads CCG to merge
STRUCTURE: GPs in the Wirral have agreed to merge their three proposed commissioning groups into one, after the strategic health authority said they were too small and would not be authorised.
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HSJ Local
Wirral FT analyses steep decline in waiting list performance
PERFORMANCE: A new report by the trust lists confusion caused by a new patient administration system and commissioner refusal to pay for additional activity among the causes of its steep decline in waiting list performance.
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HSJ Local
Tameside hospital advised new death rate measure demands ‘new approach’
PERFORMANCE: The advent of a new hospital death rate indicator which includes all patients who die within 30 days of admission means the foundation must ensure people “at risk of dying” are not admitted “inappropriately”, its board has been advised.
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HSJ Local
Morecambe Bay's chief quits
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of under fire University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust has quit.
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HSJ Local
Central Manchester FT acted 'unlawfully' over pay freezes
WORKFORCE: Central Manchester Foundation Trust acted “unlawfully” by attempting to withhold incremental pay rises from staff who took too much sick leave, a tribunal has found.
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HSJ Local
Central Manchester FT spent £86,000 contesting £1m race discrimination tribunal
WORKFORCE: The foundation spent £86,000 contesting an employment tribunal which awarded a former manager around £1m for race discrimination and unfair dismissal, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
‘High level’ risk to NWAS if funding for investment plan not renewed
FINANCE: The trust has added a new “high level” risk to its risk register, warning of the impact if the service does not receive recurrent funding for its investment plan in the coming financial year.
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HSJ Local
North Cumbria hospital rebuild affordable, commissioners to be told
COMMERCIAL: A revised business case for rebuilding the trust’s West Cumberland Hospital is now “fully compliant” with future commissioners’ plans, a special NHS Cumbria board meeting will be told.
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HSJ Local
Competition watchdog clears Trafford Healthcare takeover
STRUCTURE: The NHS competition watchdog has approved Central Manchester University Hospitals’ proposed takeover of Trafford Healthcare Trust, the hospital known as the “birthplace of the NHS”.
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HSJ Local
NHS Blackpool prepares for consultation on major reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: Commissioners across Blackpool and Lancashire will next month begin public consultation on a major reconfiguration of community inpatient services across the Fylde coast.
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HSJ Local
Pennine Acute waiting targets performance falls again in November
PERFORMANCE: Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust’s performance on “referral to treatment” waiting targets declined again in November, its latest performance report states.
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NewsMonitor intervenes to replace chair at underperforming trust
Monitor has stepped in to replace the chair of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust after three separate independent reviews last week revealed a catalogue of leadership and governance failures.
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HSJ Local
East Cheshire misses surplus target, despite below-plan paybill spend
FINANCE: East Cheshire Trust’s bottom line was still hovering just above breakeven at the end of December, against plans to have delivered a surplus of £658,000 by that point.
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HSJ Local
Central Manchester loses appeal against £1m race discrimination award
WORKFORCE: The foundation has lost its appeal against an employment tribunal which awarded one of its former managers around £1m for unfair dismissal and racial discrimination.