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The NHS changes today
NHS structure changes come into force
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent
The changes have proved extremely controversialGovernment reforms of the NHS in England have come into force and health leaders warn of a tough year ahead.
Monday marks the first day of the new structures.
GP-led groups have taken control of local budgets and a new board, NHS England, has started overseeing the day-to-day running of services.
The NHS Confederation said the reforms represented a big opportunity but should not be seen as a “silver bullet” for the challenges ahead.
Mike Farrar, chief executive of the confederation, which represents health managers, said the squeeze on finances and the need to rebuild public confidence after the Stafford Hospital scandal meant the NHS was facing a critical period.
Patients in East Anglia will receive care in a “timely and effective manner”
East of England Ambulance Service creates new posts
Maria Ball had been in post since the the trust was formedAn under-fire ambulance service has announced is to create new managements posts, a day after its chairwoman resigned.
The East of England Ambulance Service failed to meet standards in care and welfare in a recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection.
Maria Ball resigned on Wednesday, after five years in post.
The ambulance service, which has been ordered to improve, said it would create three new sector leads.
It means the work of the ambulance service in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire will be managed separately to Norfolk and Suffolk, and Essex.
A spokesman said powers were being devolved to a local level, with sector leads and general managers, to “ensure that staff are empowered to make changes that are needed locally”.
Last week’s CQC report came after months of complaints about response times.
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital will open £4.5m cancer centre later in the year
New cancer treatment centre on course at N&N
Adam Gretton, Health correspondent Tuesday, March 26, 2013
12:00 PM
A multi-million pound cancer treatment building is on course for completion by the end of the year at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
The new radiotherapy cancer treatment building under construction at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. PHOTO BY SIMON FINLAYOfficials at the NHS trust say that the new radiotherapy cancer treatment unit is set to increase capacity by a third when it is fully up and running.
Plans for how the final £4.5m centre will look went on display at the hospital yesterday and will be on show in the east atrium for the rest of the week.
The work by R G Carter has hit the halfway mark and the construction project is on course for completion in October. However, hospital officials are not sure when the centre will be fully operational, which will depend on the installation and testing of a linear accelerator, which will be used to carry out radiation therapy on patients.
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