All South West articles – Page 60
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NewsNHS Direct quits two 111 contracts
The new non-emergency NHS phone line has been thrown into turmoil after a supplier pulled out of two contracts for providing the service.
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North Bristol agrees funding for hospital move
FINANCE: North Bristol Trust has agreed an additional £4.5m of non-recurrent transitional funding with NHS England to cover the costs of moving to the new private finance initiative hospital during 2013-14.
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Monitor findings stand on Cornwall competition complaint
COMMERCIAL: Monitor has upheld its ruling that Cornwall primary care trust should have been more transparent in its commissioning of learning disability services.
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Ambulance handovers fall at Gloucester Hospitals FT
PERFORMANCE: There were 196 delayed ambulance handover delays at Gloucester Hospitals Foundation Trust in April.
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CQC lifts medicines management concern at Gloucestershire Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has found Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust to be compliant with standards on medicines management again after the trust closed the offending ward.
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Plans for Bristol and Bath vascular network
STRUCTURE: North Bristol Trust’s Southmead hospital is likely to be the centre of a new vascular network across Bristol, Bath, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.
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Official opening for new Somerset health centre
STRUCTURE: A new health centre funded by local GPs has officially opened next door to Frome Community Hospital.
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Bristol Community Health appoints interim non-execs
WORKFORCE: Bristol Community Health has appointed three interim non-executive directors to replace those who stood down in a mass board resignation last month.
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North Somerset debates community hospital
STRUCTURE: North Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group is set to debate future of Clevedon Community Hospital.
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Cornwall trusts work together on children's services
STRUCTURE: Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust and Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust have agreed a series of measures to integrate community and acute children’s services.
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Cornwall Partnership nurse recruitment drive
WORKFORCE: Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust is spending £0.5m to expend its nursing workforce.
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CCG warns on North Bristol ambulance handovers
PERFORMANCE: A performance board paper for South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group warns that North Bristol NHS Trust ambulance handover breach rates remain higher than the target, and that the ambulance trust failed to meet its target for 2012-13.
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Somerset CCG focuses on urgent and emergency care
PERFORMANCE: The latest board papers for Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group show the CCG’s concerns over “urgent and emergency care pressures”.
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CCG concern over Great Western A&E performance
PERFORMANCE: Performance board papers for Swindon CCG highlight its concern over the four hour A&E waiting time target at Great Western Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Swindon CCG cash draw down hitch
FINANCE: According to the latest finance board papers for Swindon CCG the organisation has been forced to “draw down £4m more than it needed for April.”
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Dorset County Hospital 'crowdsources' improvements
SERVICE DESIGN: Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is using the ideas of its front line staff to try and help reduce patients’ feeling of isolation.
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Devon Partnership psychiatrist to lead regional mental health network
STRUCTURE: A consultant psychiatrist at Devon Partnership Trust’s Langdon Hospital, in Dawlish, has been appointed by NHS England as the inaugural chair of a new mental health network.
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Avon and Wiltshire moves from 'punitive to supportive' culture
PERFORMANCE: A mental health trust that was described as having “centralist, top down and target driven” culture less than a year ago has moved from “punitive to supportive”, a report has found.
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NHS Somerset reports underspend
FINANCE: NHS Somerset finished 2012-13 with an underspend of almost £8m, in line with plan.
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Clock starts again on Dorset FT merger
STRUCTURE: The Competition Commission has “started the clock” again on the merger between two of Dorset’s foundation trusts.