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Director appointed to NHS Liverpool Community Health - Liverpool Daily Post 3rd November 2009
"A MERSEYSIDE health service has appointed a new Finance Director.
Gary Andrews has taken up the role at NHS Liverpool Community Health.
He has more than 15 years’ experience in the finance and commercial sector."
New boss for NHS Liverpool Community Health - Liverpool Echo 2nd November 2009
"A MERSEYSIDE health service has appointed a new Finance Director.
Gary Andrews has taken up the role at NHS Liverpool Community Health.
He has more than 15 years experience in the finance and commercial sector, joining from United Utilities"
David Cameron: Tories would rename Department of Health - The Guardian 2nd November 2009
"Conservative leader promises NHS reforms to cut costs and extend 'patient power'"
Cameron lays out plans to save millions in NHS reform - The Times 3rd November 2009
"David Cameron promised yesterday to cut the cost of running the NHS by a third while handing day-to-day management of the health service over to an independent body.
The Tory leader guaranteed that up to £1.5 billion of savings on bureaucracy would be reinvested elsewhere in the health service. He also pledged to extend “patient power” and to create a rebranded Department of Public Health if his party won the next election. "
Cameron's NHS board is all well and good; where will the buck stop? - The Times 3rd November 2009
"When things go wrong in a David Cameron and Andrew Lansley-led health service, who will carry the can?
Under David Cameron’s blueprint released yesterday, day-to-day responsibility will be removed from ministers and handed to a council of doctors and managers known as the NHS board. Elected Tory politicians will set “strategic objectives”, but it will be for this body, effectively a super-quango, to oversee its £100 billion budget and execute its powers in whatever way it sees fit."
‘Now is right time to go’ says Calderstones hospital boss - Lancashire Telegraph 30th October 2009
"A HOSPITAL boss has quit and said it was a honour to have held the role.
Graham Parr has resigned as chairman at Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Mr Parr has held the chairmanship for five years and is a former director of estates at the old Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Trust"
Governors resign over Halton Hospital row - Warrington Guardian 28th October 2009
"TWO governors have resigned from their posts at Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust because of what one has termed their frustration over a ‘false’ role.
Bob Bryant and David King both handed in their resignations on Monday after months of arguments between the governors’ council and the hospital’s executive board. "
Liverpool heart and chest hospital appoints new chairman - Liverpool Echo 27th October 2009
"A LIVERPOOL hospital has appointed a new chairman.
Neil Large has taken the helm at Liverpool heart and chest hospital, in Broadgreen.
Mr Large has been a non executive director of the hospital since October 2007 and acting chairman since July."
Too many managers spoil NHS - Lancashire Telegraph 27th October 2009
"The Care Quality Commission (CQC) says one in eight NHS trusts must urgently improve the care it provides.
The CQC found a drop in the number of hospitals meeting basic standards in areas such as hygiene and safety. But it also said more services than ever could be rated good or excellent.
The CQC published ratings on England's 392 trusts and looked at every type of NHS trust, including acute, mental health, primary care and ambulance. The Blackburn with Darwen NHS trust in 2008 - 2009 in meeting core standard & providing services - the score said they just met the criteria."
Chorley health trust seeks new director - Lancashire Telegraph 23rd October 2009
"A non-executive director is being sought by NHS Central Lancashire.
The post is being advertised by the independent Appointments Commission, which handles recruitment to all non-executive director posts in NHS trusts. "
Watchdog scrutinises NHS foundation trust over £20m deficit - The Guardian 13th October 2009
"Heatherwood and Wexham Park forced to cut jobs and reduce services after mismanagement led to £20m deficit"
NHS boss under spotlight over relationship with high-flying colleague - The Sunday Telegraph 11th October 2009
"The chief executive of the NHS has come under scrutiny over his relationship with a high-flying colleague who has become Britain’s youngest hospital boss. "
Youngest hospital boss who is earning £155k aged just 32... and the NHS chief (52) who happens to be her fiancé - Daily Mail 11th October 2009
"The chief executive of the NHS faces questions over his relationship with one of the country's youngest hospital bosses - who is 20 years his junior.
David Nicholson, 52, who is in charge of managing the Health Service in England and Wales, has announced he is to marry Sarah-Jane Marsh, 32, next year."
Social services deemed 'unfit' to protect city's needy children - The Independent 6th October 2009
"A damning report into Birmingham's children's services following a series of child deaths has exposed serious management failings in an organisation hampered by high levels of sick leave and excessive red tape.
The inquiry was commissioned last year after it emerged that eight children known to social services had died in the city in four years. It found that more than one in five staff was on sick leave at any one time and that a lack of senior managers was a "major risk"."
Vulnerable children 'betrayed by red tape and staff shortages' says damning report - Daily Mail 6th October 2009
"Red tape and chronic staff shortages have left one of Britain's biggest social services departments 'not fit for purpose' to help vulnerable children, a damning report revealed yesterday.
Social workers in Birmingham 'do not have enough time to devote to the families they are trying to help' because time is wasted on bureaucracy in the undermanned department, the inquiry found. "
Birmingham social work model 'not fit for purpose' says report - The Guardian 5th October 2009
"Inquiry condemns children's services department after deaths of eight children known to social workers"
Council children's services slammed - The Guardian 5th October 2009
"An official report has heavily criticised one of England's biggest social services departments, saying its "current social work model" for children is not fit for purpose.
An inquiry into Birmingham's social services was commissioned after inspectors found weaknesses in care for at-risk children last December."
Tories vow to cut NHS bureaucracy by a third - The Guardian 5th October 2009
"Andrew Lansley says £1.5bn a year will be switched from backroom operations to frontline nurses and doctors"
Andrew Lansley vows to save £1.5 billion by cutting NHS red tape and targets - The Times 5th October 2009
"The Conservatives would save £1.5 billion over four years by cutting back NHS bureaucracy, Andrew Lansley claimed today.
The saving — one third of the health service’s administration budget — would be achieved by scrapping targets and making GPs more responsible for their budgets."
Birmingham social services 'not fit for purpose' after eight deaths - The Times 5th October 2009
"Child protection services in Birmingham, Britain’s biggest local authority, have been condemned as “not fit for purpose” after a spate of deaths of young people in the city.
The criticism, in an official report written by Birmingham City Council’s own councillors, was made after eight children known to social services died in only four years, after suspected neglect and abuse. Among them was Khyra Ishaq, a seven-year-old girl from Handsworth, who was allegedly starved to death last year."
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