All Reconfiguration articles – Page 62
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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 LocalHospital chief executive steps down after board delays FT application
STRUCTURE: A London hospital trust chief executive has stepped down, saying the trust board’s decision to delay its foundation application “has led me to consider my position”.
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HSJ Local
Minister announces merger option for non-FT acute
STRUCTURE: A merger or independent franchise are among the options for a hospital trust which has a private finance deal preventing it from achieving foundation status.
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HSJ Local
Councillors approve North East MH service change
STRUCTURE: North Tyneside overview and scrutiny committee has approved plans to move acute mental health assessment and treatment facilities from North Tyneside General Hospital ward 21 to St Georges Park Hospital, Morpeth.
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HSJ Local
East and North Herts still waiting for reconfiguration approval
STRUCTURE: A major reconfiguration plan in East and North Hertfordshire has stalled awaiting approval from central government, according to board papers.
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HSJ Local
Council to investigate Berkshire mental health plans
COMMERCIAL: An investigation has been launched into Berkshire Healthcare FT’s plans to consolidate mental health services in the area.
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Comment'Without evidence, the rhetorical reforms are irrelevant at best'
As real funding is eroded amid grand health policy rhetoric, there is a desperate need for hard evidence and data to inform the fundamental policy challenges facing this government. Without it, the reforms are all but irrelevant, argues York University professor of health economics Alan Maynard.
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HSJ Local
Medway FT signs memorandum of understanding with nearby acute trust
STRUCTURE: Medway NHS Foundation Trust has moved a step closer to integration with Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust, which is seeking a way of gaining foundation status.
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NewsTrusts set 'unlikely' savings targets for 2011-12
England’s acute trusts have increased the scale of their cost improvement programmes by nearly a third in 2011-12, an HSJ analysis reveals.
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HSJ KnowledgeStepping up: the collaborative approach to becoming a model of innovation
A group of organisations has developed a stepped approach for healthcare services to identify the best ways of joining forces in the search for bigger savings.
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HSJ Local
NHS West Sussex holds extra board meeting to discuss ‘clustering’
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust is holding an extra meeting in public at the end of the month to provide the public with an opportunity to “hear the latest on health services across the region”.
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HSJ Local
Consultation supports RDaSH reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has welcomed the outcome of a consultation generally supporting planned changes to inpatient services.
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HSJ Local
Milton Keynes PCT moves to East Midlands SHA
STRUCTURE: NHS Milton Keynes has moved from the South Central strategic health authority area to the East Midlands, as it forms a cluster with neighbouring NHS Northamptonshire.
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NewsChase Farm services decision faces further delays
A planned hospital shake-up seen as a test case for health secretary Andrew Lansley’s appetite for reconfigurations faces further delays after redrafted proposals were rejected by MPs.
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HSJ Local
MP calls for DH to investigate Wesham Hospital closure
STRUCTURE: An MP is to call for an urgent Department of Health investigation into a Lancashire hospital closure, after HSJ uncovered legal advice encouraging the foundation responsible to “run down” the facility.
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HSJ Local
Durham & Darlington begins major 'integration' service review
STRUCTURE: County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust has begun a major service review as it takes over County Durham and Darlington Community Health Services.
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HSJ KnowledgeMagical mystery shoppers: driving service improvements with quality feedback
A recent programme of mystery shopping at Trafford Provier Services has become one of the ogranisation’s best value for money approaches to driving high quality feedback. Managing director Mark Brandreth explains.
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CommentReconfiguration threatening to derail London service level agreements
No sooner were service level agreements more or less signed off by London acutes and commissioners, than reconfiguration issues reared their head.
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NewsFoundation trust advised to 'run down' hospital
Lawyers advised a cash-strapped foundation trust wanting to close a community hospital that it could bypass public consultation by “running down” the service on “efficiency” grounds.
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HSJ Local
Western Sussex Hospitals offers public one-to-one consultation on changes
STRUCTURE: Clinicians and managers are offering the public personal briefings on planned changes to services at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust.