Primary Care – Page 140
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Mid Essex PCT leading on safeguarding hub plan
STRUCTURE: NHS Mid Essex is the lead primary care trust in a plan to create an Essex-wide hub to host designated professionals for child safeguarding.
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Buckinghamshire PCT plans repeat primary care QIPP savings
FINANCE: NHS Buckinghamshire plans to be making over £10m of recurrent savings each year in primary care savings by 2015.
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Risk of deficit at Luton PCT
FINANCE: NHS Luton has reported that the risk of it not breaking even for the year has increased.
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Berkshire East PCT uses reserves to ensure breakeven
FINANCE: NHS Berkshire East is forecasting that it will breakeven at the end of the year rather than a planed £17m surplus.
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Stroke care gets lowest rating at Berkshire West PCT
PERFORMANCE: Stroke care services at Berkshire West PCT have been given the lowest assessment score in a nationwide review by the Care Quality Commission.
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South West Essex PCT still £11m over budget
FINANCE: The South West Essex primary care trust was still reporting a deficit at the end of 2010 of £11.4m, despite recieving £7m from the NHS East of England.
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South East Essex PCT faces £1.3m cost pressures
FINANCE: A raised threshold for a marginal non-elective rate, demanded by the local acute trust, could lead to extra costs of £1.3m for NHS South East Essex.
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Continuing care overspend at Warwickshire PCT
FINANCE: Continuing Healthcare budgets are classed as high risk by Warwickshire PCT.
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NHS Barnet approves transfer of Barnet Community Services
STRUCTURE: The provider arm of the north London primary care trust is due to transfer to aspirant community foundation trust Central London Community Healthcare in April.
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New community interest company to provide community services in North East Essex
STRUCTURE: North East Essex Provider Services has officially established a community interest company known as Anglian Community Enterprise (ACE).
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NHS Barking and Dagenham puts forward two pathfinders
STRUCTURE: Two NHS Barking and Dagenham GP practice clusters are applying for pathfinder status.
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NewsProsecute staff for neglect, say experts
NHS staff who neglect patients should be prosecuted in light of scandals such as Mid Staffordshire, experts said today.
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NewsReforms will destroy the NHS, claims Unite
Hospitals will close, tens of thousands of jobs will be axed and health services will become more expensive under the government’s radical NHS reforms, the country’s biggest union has warned.
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NewsRCS warns quality of care could decline
Standards of patient care may be compromised if GPs focus on “the lowest price” rather than quality when it comes to health spending, the Royal College of Surgeons of England has warned.
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HSJ KnowledgeFour steps to improving frontline patient care
Four simple steps can do much to lighten the load of frontline staff and help them to stay abreast of information on their patients, writes Roger Lamb.
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Complex needs unit opened by Sussex Partnership FT
STRUCTURE: A Sussex mental health foundation trust has opened a new recovery support centre for patients with complex personality needs.
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NewsNHS Networks site aims to help commissioners
A new website developed by NHS Networks is helping commissioners by bringing together useful information in one place.
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Patient choice proving costly for NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
FINANCE: NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly are overspending on private providers.
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NHS Dorset in cancer drug dispute
FINANCE: NHS Dorset is in dispute with Poole Hospital Foundation Trust (PHT) over the cost of cancer drugs.
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NHS Surrey forecasts £19.9m overspend
FINANCE: The primary care trust has forecast that it faces a year-end deficit of just under £20m.