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The East Midlands Strategic Health Authority was formed on 1 July 2006.
Where possible reports will continue to be shown under:
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland Strategic Health
Authority
Trent Strategic Health Authority
- Health unions
unite to campaign against cuts. Healthcare unions have launched a campaign
to tackle cuts to NHS services
and jobs. Leicestershire primary care trusts are facing cost-cutting
programmes to save over £60 million between them. The University Hospitals of
Leicester NHS Trust is also trying to save £22 million this year. The picture
is worse in other parts of the East Midlands.
Nottingham University Hospitals has a total deficit of £60 million. Up to
1,200 posts are believed to be at risk. A group of unions, including the Royal
College of Nursing (RCN), Unison, Amicus, the Chartered Society of
Physiotherapists and the Society of Radiographers, is taking action. Andy
Belfield, Unison's head of health for the East Midlands, said: "We will be
working together, representing all NHS staff, alongside trusts, patients,
community groups and the public to defend services." The unions will be asking
people to sign petitions at events across the region during the summer.
Summary by
Keep our NHS Public
of Leicester
Mercury 11 August 2006
- Union hits out
at 'back-door' privatisation. A new NHS procurement agency has been
accused of attempting a "back-door
privatisation" of
East Midlands Ambulance Service trust. The
GMB union says the East Midlands collaborative procurement hub, a new agency
set up to buy services and supplies for NHS trusts, threatens to dismantle the
service by putting out a tender to privatise non-urgent patient transport
services (PTS) in the east midlands. GMB regional organiser Andy Fletcher
said: "NHS trusts are effectively trying to downgrade a service which is at
present driven by quality performance and patient needs to a service which is
not based on clinical need but driven by money." The union says that PTS
should remain within the ambulance service, "not a bolt-on inferior product".
East Midlands Ambulance Service confirmed that the hub would shortly be
inviting tenders for the provision of non-emergency patient transport
services, adding that the trust "will be competing for this tender".
Summary by
Keep our NHS Public
of Health
Service Journal 17 August 2006
- NHS cuts
protest. Thousands of people took part in a march in Nottingham on
Saturday against cuts to the East Midlands
NHS. The march was organised by Unison and the Royal College of Nursing. Karen
Jennings, Unison's head of health, said the turnout was "a real demonstration
of the concern felt by the public about the future of health services." Summary by
Keep our NHS Public
of Leicester Mercury 25 September 2006
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£4.5m payoff for 46 health staff. Almost £4.5m of NHS funds were spent
on 46 redundancy payouts for directors, managers and other office staff after
a reorganisation designed to save money for
Derbyshire's NHS. Unions are today saying the money could have been saved
with better planning. Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act
reveal the extent of the redundancy payouts caused by the merger. A spokesman
for the county health trust, which paid a total of £405,000 to two former
chief executives, said the reorganisation had saved the trust £2.7m. "The
trust will be able to reinvest these longer-term savings in front-line
services of benefit to the people of Derbyshire," he said. The incorporation
of neighbouring services saw East Midlands Ambulance Service fund nine
redundancies to a cost of £1.5m, it also spent £13,670 on new vehicle livery
and signs. Director of human resources David Farrelly said: "Although some
short-term costs would be incurred, these would be more than offset by
long-term savings. With EMAS, this is achieved by reducing from three boards
of directors to one." NHS East Midlands,
which replaced the
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland and Trent strategic health
authorities, spent £2.5m on redundancies for 35 staff and hopes the
reorganisation will save £3m in administrative costs. Charlie Carruth, East
Midlands Unison organiser, said reorganisations had been rushed through. "In
Derbyshire there were six primary care trusts going into one in very little
time," he said. "What are you going to do with all the chief executives,
assistant directors, heads of finance, human resources
? Instead of doing it in a managed and structured way where you can
minimise redundancies as far as you can, they just went for another big
merger."
Summary by
Keep our NHS Public of Derbyshire
Evening Telegraph 7 June 2007
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NHS job losses cost
£2.5m in payouts. An NHS trust has forked out £2.5m in redundancy payments
as part of a Government shake-up of services in the
East Midlands. Thirty-five staff were laid
off from the region's strategic health authority, in Sandiacre, which oversees
primary care trusts, hospitals and the East Midlands Ambulance Service. The
job losses stemmed from the merger of health trusts throughout the country
last year - aimed at saving cash and cutting bureaucracy in the health
service. Trusts, including the strategic health authority, were reconfigured. Summary by
Keep our NHS Public of Nottingham Evening Post
19 June 2007
- Midwives struggle
in labour ward crisis. The crisis on labour wards has been laid bare by
figures that show some midwives are dealing with 25% more births than six years
ago. A critical shortage of staff and a rise in the number of births has
increased pressure on midwives to breaking point. In some areas, half of new
mothers questioned in the largest midwifery study said they had been left alone
and worried during labour, even though guidelines say women should have
one-to-one care throughout their contractions and birth. Government figures
given to the Liberal Democrats show that the number of births per midwife per
year has risen overall in England by 6.5% since 2001. However, that figure masks
regional variations and in some areas workloads have increased dramatically - in
the East Midlands
midwives are dealing with 25% more births. On average, a midwife in England will
now handle 33 births over a year. In the past six years the birthrate has
increased by 12.5%. However, midwife numbers have risen by just 4.5% since
Labour came to power. Fewer midwives are also being trained by the NHS. In 2004/
05, there were 2,374 NHS midwifery training places. This dropped to 2,220
in 2005/ 06 and again to 1,990 the
following year. The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) found in a recent survey
that half of existing midwives were planning to retire before 2017. Summary by
Keep our NHS Public of Telegraph
10 January 2008
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Heat Map East
Midlands
SHA forecasts 2006
07 East Midlands
Healthcare organisations weak for quality of services
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Healthcare organisations weak for use of resources
Charnwood and North West Leicestershire Primary Care Trust
Daventry and South Northamptonshire Primary Care Trust
Derbyshire Dales and South Derbyshire Primary Care Trust
East Lincolnshire Primary Care Trust
Gedling Primary Care Trust
High Peak and Dales Primary Care Trust
Hinckley and Bosworth Primary Care Trust
Leicester City West Primary Care Trust
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
Northampton Primary Care Trust
Northamptonshire Heartlands Primary Care Trust
Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust
South Leicestershire Primary Care Trust
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
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