All Acute care articles – Page 290
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Croydon Health Services Trust making progress on agency spend
WORKFORCE: A hospital and its vertically integrated community services have made progress on reducing the proportion of agency staff employed.
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NHS Plymouth confident of surplus despite commissioning overspend of £11.5m
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY: NHS Plymouth is forecasting an overspend on commissioning of £11.5m.
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HSJ KnowledgeOptimising patient flow in A&E
The pressing need to optimise patient movement through A&E prompted the design of an urgent care centre which combines both GPs and emergency professionals. Mark Mould, acting chief operating officer at University Hospital of North Staffordshire Trust, clinical lead for emergency medicine at University Hospital of North Staffordshire Trust Dr ...
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Lengths of stay at George Eliot highest since 2005-6
PERFORMANCE: Lengths of stay at George Eliot Hospital Trust are at their highest level since April 2009 and the second highest level since 2005-6.
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Treatment bans worsen George Eliot deficit
FINANCE: George Eliot Hospital Trust is reporting a year to date deficit of £1.96m, which is largely the result of the primary care trust banning certain procedures.
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NHS Kensington & Chelsea miss breast screening targets two months in a row
A central London PCT has missed its breast cancer screening targets for months seven and eight of the financial year.
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NHS Devon moves ahead with plans for provider arm
STRUCTURE: The Co-operation and Competition Panel (CCP) has de-prioritised the transfer of NHS Devon’s provider arms.
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£20m research centre for University Hospitals Birmingham
STRUCTURE: Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham is to host £20m national centre for research into treating trauma.
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NHS Camden predicting 41 per cent overspend with acute provider
FINANCE: A primary care trust is predicting a 41 per cent overspend at year-end with one of its acute providers
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Plymouth Hospitals Trust predicts £4.6m deficit
FINANCE: Plymouth Hospitals Trust is forecasting to break even at the end of the year despite reporting a £4.6m deficit.
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Burton Hospitals staff vote on bank holiday
WORKFORCE: Burton Hospitals Foundation Trust is asking employees to vote on whether the royal wedding should be treated as a bank holiday.
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Lancashire FT feels swine flu pressure
PERFORMANCE: A swine flu outbreak caused “severe organisational pressures” for the trust in December, eventually forcing it to cancel all elective patients except those with life-threatening conditions.
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More than 20 leave Devon Partnership Trust under MARS
WORKFORCE: More than 20 employees are to leave Devon Partnership NHS Trust under MARS agreements.
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Royal Cornwall falling behind on surplus plans
FINANCE: The trust is reporting a high risk it will not achieve its planned surplus of £9.7m.
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NewsDH: 20 trusts' futures in doubt
The Department of Health has identified about 20 organisations that will struggle to achieve foundation status, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has revealed.
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Salisbury FT offers services for new trauma centre
STRUCTURE: Salisbury Foundation Trust could provide plastic surgery for a new major trauma centre at Southampton University Hospitals Trust.
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Salisbury FT in overperformance dispute with PCTs
FINANCE: Salisbury FT has been issued with performance notices, warning notices and and exception report by NHS Wiltshire.
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East Lancashire underperforming on stroke care indicators
PERFORMANCE: The hospitals trust has failed to meet standards for the proportion of high risk transient ischaemic attack patients treated within 24 hours every month for the past year.
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Leicestershire Partnership Trust postpones FT bid
STRUCTURE: Leicestershire Partnership Trust has decided to postpone its foundation trust application following a meeting with Monitor.
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Salford Royal scores highly in cancer patient experience survey
PERFORMANCE: The foundation has achieved some of the best scores in the country in the Department of Health’s largest ever survey of the experiences of cancer patients.