Tag: NHS Cambridgeshire

Peterborough News 30th September 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Thursday 30th September 2010.

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Unison supporters gathered outside the Town Hall yesterday, to protest against planned cuts to the public sector.
NHS Cambridgeshire has launched its pilot scheme to hand budgets over to GPs and scrap Strategic Health Authorities. A new NHS Commissioning Board will oversee the regime.
Peterborough raises £60,000 for the victims of the Pakistan floods.
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Peterborough News 24th September 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Friday 24th September 2010.

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A week-long A1073 closure to traffic at Eye Green for resurfacing with a diversion through Thorney enrages locals.
As part of the EEDA EVALU8 scheme expressions of interest have been received from 20 comapnies interested in hosting electric car charging points in Peterborough, which hopes to become a “Plugged in Place”.
Bidders for Hinchingbrooke Hospital claim they can run the hospital and absorb the £40 million debts without reducing standards or services.
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Another New Chief Executive at NHS Peterborough

Henceforth NHS Peterborough will be sharing a Chief Executive with NHS Cambridgeshire until such time as PCTs are phased out altogether. He will take on the massive budget deficit and replaces the interim Chief Executive put in place following the departure of Marco Cereste. The brand new man Dr Paul Zollinger-Read who starts this week talks to the BBC’s Paul Stainton and learns from the BBC that the Dental Clinic in Midgate is to close without warning. Broadcast at 08:36 on Tuesday 10th August 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
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Peterborough News 10th August 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Tuesday 10th August 2010.

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Homeless migrant workers are living on the Boongate roundabout under the flyover according to BBC Look East who are covering this issue all week.
Cresset Theatre has been successful in avoiding closure by moving over to a room hire only basis.
NHS Peterborough is closing the Midgate Dental Practice forthwith. No explanation is currently forthcoming. NHS Peterborough is now sharing a CE with NHS Cambridgeshire.
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Peterborough News 27th July 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Tuesday 27th July 2010. News travel weather and interviews.

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Rumours grow that TK MAXX will occupy the Woolworths building on Bridge Street which has been closed for eighteen months.
The interim CE for NHS Cambridgeshire Dr Paul Zollinger-Reid will take over as interim CE for the cash-strapped NHS Peterborough whilst retaining his current job.
Local sportsmen and women complain that with the Olympics only two years away they still struggle for funding.
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Cambridgeshire News 15th July 2010

A summary of the Cambridgeshire Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Thursday 15th July 2010. News travel weather and interviews.

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The Care Quality Commission is critical of NHS Cambridgeshire for how it allowed a locum doctor from out-of-hours agency Take Care Now to cause the death a Manea man as a result of inadequate procedures and monitoring.
An independent inquiry into youth crime and anti-social behaviour recommends restorative justice.
According to Marshall of Cambridge a Hercules spotted doing aerobatics over Cambridge was practicing for the Farnborough Air Show.
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