All articles by Alison Moore – Page 49
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HSJ Knowledge
Dispatches from the frontline
HSJ was joined by some leading experts to explore their progress towards creating new models of care
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HSJ Local
CQC warns major teaching hospital over 'unnecessary risk' to patients
PERFORMANCE: A leading teaching hospital has been served with a warning notice by the CQC.
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HSJ Local
'Highly unsatisfactory' ambulance trust braced for tough CQC report
PERFORMANCE: An ambulance trust is braced for a highly critical inspection report and possible regulatory action after initial feedback highlighted serious failings and a lack of accountability in the organisation.
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HSJ Local
Trust spent £315,000 on interim HR directors in a year
WORKFORCE: A Kent trust paid £315,000 for the services of two “off payroll” interim human resources directors who were together in post for less than a year.
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HSJ Local
Kent trust struggles to staff new urgent care centre
A Kent trust is struggling to find GPs to staff a 24/7 urgent care centre which is being set up to replace its emergency unit in Canterbury.
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HSJ Local
Struggling CCG spent £500,000 on two interims last year
A clinical commissioning group which is under directions from NHS England spent £500,000 on two “off payroll” interim executives last year.
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HSJ Local
Trust expects to fail RTT target until 2018
A leading south coast trust does not expect to hit the referral-to-treatment performance target until March 2018.
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News
Boss leaves scandal-hit ambulance foundation trust
The chief executive of South East Coast Ambulance Service Foundation Trust - the subject of major concerns over delaying responses to some calls - has left the trust after 10 weeks’ absence.
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News
New chief executive for South East hospital trust
The chief executive of a successful community trust has been appointed to run the Royal Surrey County Hospital Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Brighton trust chair steps down
GOVERNANCE: The chair of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has stepped down with immediate effect.
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HSJ Local
Fears for community hospital after bed closures
WORKFORCE: A community hospital’s inpatient rehabilitation beds have been temporarily closed because of staffing problems, which has prompted fears about its future.
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HSJ Local
Trust to review patient homicides following manslaughter case
LEGAL: An independent review will examine the cases of patients at Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust who went on to kill after a patient was found guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
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HSJ Local
'Red risks' identified for 111 provider switch
COMMISSIONING: NHS 111 and GP out of hours services in east Kent are to be run by one organisation – but there are already fears about the transition to the new provider.
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HSJ Local
Trusts at loggerheads over millions in unpaid bills
FINANCE: Two hospital trusts are embroiled in a row over more than £3m of unpaid bills that could significantly affect their year-end financial positions.
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HSJ Local
STP lead’s trust will miss savings targets
FINANCE: The trust whose chief executive is leading the Kent and Medway sustainability and transformation plan has said it cannot make the savings demanded in the first year.
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HSJ Local
FT making ‘considerable improvement’ after three years in special measures
PERFORMANCE: Medway Foundation Trust has shown signs of “considerable improvement” since it was inspected last August and September, the chief inspector of hospitals has said.
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HSJ Local
Pioneering private hospital ‘requires improvement’, says CQC
PERFORMANCE: A high profile private hospital in Kent has been rated “requires improvement” by the Care Quality Commission, with its surgical services criticised as “inadequate” for safety.
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HSJ Local
Surrey CCGs braced for deficits over £20m
FINANCE: Two Surrey clinical commissioning groups are set to end the 2015-16 financial year with deficits totalling over £50m.
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HSJ Local
Kent vascular services likely to be centralised
STRUCTURE: Inpatient specialist vascular services in Kent are likely to move to one site following a review by NHS England.
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HSJ Local
CCGs order inquiry into disrupted switch to private transport firm
PERFORMANCE: Clinical commissioning groups in Sussex have ordered an independent inquiry into the troubled start of a new patient transport service.