I have been looking into the performance of Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust’s “Exceptional Cases Panel”.
The panel is tasked with deciding if public money ought be spent on a treatment which is not covered by existing NHS contracts and policies. The kind of requests which the panel deals with include high cost treatments [...]
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Performance of NHS Cambridgeshire’s Exceptional Cases Panel - Click for Full Article
Addenbrookes Security Threatening People With Fixed Penalties - Click for Full Article
A progress report on a trial involving security staff at Addenbrooke’s hospital being given police powers, including the ability to administer summary justice via fixed penalty tickets, was presented to Cambridgeshire Police Authority on the 30th of September 2009. It revealed that only “managers” had been given the powers and the powers had not [...]
Cambridgeshire NHS PCT Board Meeting and AGM - Click for Full Article
Chief Executive Chris Banks presents his report to the Cambridgeshire NHS PCT AGM.
This evening I attended a board meeting of Cambridgeshire NHS PCT followed by their AGM. The event was held at the South Fens Business Centre in Chatteris. I used the opportunity available for members of the public to speak to at [...]
Cambridgeshire PCT Board Fail to Grasp Opportunity to Improve Out Of Hours GP Service - Click for Full Article
On the 26th of August 2009 The Cambridgeshire NHS PCT Board met in Cambridge’s Masonic Lodge.
I attended Cambridgeshire NHS Primary Care Trust’s board meeting on the 26th of August 2009. One of the major items of business was to approve a specification for the provision of out of hours GP (and emergency dental) services [...]