All Acute care articles – Page 282
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NewsFTs warn budget cuts could cause organisational failure
Foundation trusts have warned that tougher than expected budget cuts mean they face “serious financial stress” which could lead to organisational failures and thousands of job losses.
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NewsMidwife-led units threatened by falling birth rates
Standalone midwife-led centres are under threat from high costs and falling numbers of deliveries, HSJ can exclusively reveal.
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NewsFT quality reports unreliable, Audit Commission finds
Foundation trust quality accounts are unreliable, with wide variations in the standard of data used, an Audit Commission study has found.
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Comment'GPs run the risk of alienating themselves from their colleagues'
As the BMA gears up for a crisis meeting to debate the Health Bill, the chair of its consultant and specialists committee voices his fears of a huge split between members - and a ‘seething cauldron’ of competing providers in the future.
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Moorfields abandons Abu Dhabi expansion plan
COMMERCIAL: Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust has abandoned a plan to expand its Dubai operation into Abu Dhabi.
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HSJ Local
New hospitals in Mid Yorkshire fully open
STRUCTURE: The final services moved into the new Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals this month, the Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust has announced.
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HSJ Local
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals in dispute with PCT over income
FINANCE: The trust has warned that £3.6m of its income is under dispute with commissioners, which poses a risk to its agreed year-end position.
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HSJ Local
Dartford and Gravesham busts MRSA target but remains free of norovirus
PERFORMANCE: The acute trust said it had remained “remarkably” free of norovirus even though it had breached its target for MRSA cases.
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HSJ Local
Dartford and Gravesham struggling on ‘bare below elbows’ compliance
WORKFORCE: Dartford and Gravesham has said it is still experiencing isolated cases of staff failing to comply with infection control regulations requiring frontline staff to be “bare below the elbows”.
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HSJ Local
Waits at Southport and Ormskirk above national threshold
PERFORMANCE: The trust was one of just four North West providers where median waiting times for admitted patients were above the national target in November, a new report by NHS North West shows.
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NewsNHS faces reform challenges - Nuffield Trust
The NHS faces challenges in ensuring safe and stable healthcare while the government’s reforms are implemented, according to a new report.
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NewsHospitals will not have to close - Lansley
Hospitals will not have to close despite the NHS budget facing annual real-term cuts of 4 per cent, the government said.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge nearing limits for infection control
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s infection report for January shows it is currently on course to hit its targets for MRSA cases but behind for Clostridium difficile.
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HSJ Local
Kent acute trusts propose merger
STRUCTURE: The boards of Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust and Medway NHS Foundation Trust are “exploring” the option of merging.
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HSJ KnowledgeEnhancing recovery pathways for planned surgical care
Enhanced recovery pathways for patients following surgery have led to better outcomes and improved patient experience, as evident in the work done by Colin Berry and colleagues at the Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust.
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NewsDr Foster chief executive stands down
Dr Foster Intelligence chief executive Tom Moloney has stood down and been replaced by Tim Baker, who previously led Dr Foster Research, the company has announced.
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Epsom and St Helier will not hit A&E target
PERFORMANCE: The Surrey borders trust admitted in a board paper that it cannot now hit the 2010-11 target percentage for A&E waits of less than four hours.
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NewsPCT clusters should have guarantee of existence beyond 2013, says Nuffield Trust
Primary care trust clusters should be given a guarantee that they will continue to exist after 2013 and could become regional outposts of the NHS Commissioning Board, according to experts at the Nuffield Trust.
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NewsContaminated blood inquiry to hear evidence
An inquiry into how people were infected with hepatitis C and HIV from contaminated blood will begin hearing evidence on Tuesday.
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News£775m for medical outcomes research
Government funding of up to £775m has been earmarked for “translational” medical research aimed at taking new discoveries from the lab bench to the hospital bed.