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Former health secretary and chair of health select committee says that better use of IT will help eliminate waste in the NHS, reports Gill Hitchcock When the Audit Commission published its review of England's NHS this summer and warned of growing financial pressures, trusts already knew that achieving savings equivalent to about 5% of their budgets each year until 2015 meant doing things differently and more efficiently. Stephen Dorrell, the chair of the health select committee and former health secretary, believes making better use of IT is key to eliminating inefficiencies in the NHS, but...

Job moves: North West London hospitals trust gets new boss and North Staffordshire combined healthcare trust announces new chair Ian Cumming has been appointed as the new chief executive of North Bristol trust. He is currently national director for quality at the Department of Health and was previously chief executive of the West Midlands strategic health authority and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay trust. Cumming will start his new role in April 2012, while Ruth Brunt will continue as chief executive of the trust until her retirement. The trust is currently undergoing major building development...

Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Oxford Radcliffe trust integrate and form new working agreement with Oxford University Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS trust have merged, creating an integrated trust under a single board and management team. The newly-integrated trust will be known as the Oxford University Hospitals NHS trust. It will run the county's four teaching hospitals – the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Horton General, John Radcliffe, and Churchill hospitals – which will retain their current names. In addition, a joint working agreement with the University...

Job moves: Emma Goddard starts her role as the new chief operating officer of Bedford hospital trust and Peter Gordon joins NHS Surrey as a non executive director Penny Venables has been appointed chief executive of Worcestershire acute hospitals trust. Venables, who is currently head of the Royal Orthopaedic hospital foundation trust in Birmingham, will move to Worcestershire in the new year. She has held a variety of senior posts over the last decade, including chief operating office at Royal Wolverhampton hospitals and director of operations at Birmingham Women's healthcare trust. Harry...

Job moves: Neil Matthewman moves from NHS Blackburn to run charity CIC and Bob Deans takes over at Kent and Medway Lezli Boswell has taken over as interim chief executive of Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust from Peter Colclough. Boswell, who led Cornwall Partnership foundation trust through its successful bid for foundation status, will work on preparing Royal Cornwall for its own application. She took over the role on 1 September, having previously worked for strategic health authority NHS South West on preparing trusts for foundation applications. "Lezli brings considerable expertise to RCHT...

Job moves: Cluster boss leaves after only six months in the job. Also, North Bristol's head Ruth Brunt announces her retirement The chief executive of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire primary care trust cluster, Sonia Mills, has announced her departure, only six months after taking the role. Clusters are intended as transitional structures, making PCTs more efficient in advance of their planned abolition in March 2013 in favour of clinical commissioning groups. Mills, who was previously chief executive of Oxfordshire PCT, has worked for the NHS for 35 years. A spokeswoman said that she will...

NHS hospital trust profile General Information Address: Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust Derriford Hospital Derriford Road Crownhill PL6 8DH Plymouth Devon United Kingdom Tel: 0845 155 8155 Email: mainreception@phnt.swest.nhs.uk Twitter: @PHNT_NHS Web: http://www.plymouthhospitals.nhs.uk Chief Executive: Paul Roberts Key Data Population: 450,000 (2008-09) Employees: 6,600 (2008-09) Overview Plymouth Hospitals is an acute trust supplying comprehensive care to people in the south west peninsula. Services are provided at Derriford Hospital, The Royal Eye Infirmary and the Child Development Centre and...

Pre-tender will be in partnership with health organisations and is part of the authority's plan to set up a 'trading joint services venture' with a private firm Cornwall council has published a pre-tender for various shared services, for itself and four local NHS trusts, covering areas including IT infrastructure and devices, document management, helpdesk and consultancy services. According to a notice published in the Official Journal of the European Union, the council is looking for a 10 year contract in partnership with local health organisations including Royal Cornwall hospital...