All CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST articles – Page 15
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NewsHunt announces crackdown on unsafe surgery
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced plans for a taskforce to improve safety of surgery after it emerged more than 80 per cent of never events during 2011-12 occurred in operating theatres.
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HSJ Local
Trust appoints CQC chief
WORKFORCE: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust has appointed four new non-executive directors to its board, including a senior Care Quality Commission executive.
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NewsMoves to tackle performance problems at Cambridge University Hospitals
This week’s HSJ Local Briefing looks at Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust, which has recently found itself in some difficulty
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NewsAnalysed: Performance failings in Cambridge
Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has a reputation for excellence, but has recently found itself in some difficulty
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HSJ Local
Cambridge reduces budget deficit
FINANCE: Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has reduced its budget deficit, its finance director told the board this month.
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NewsCambridge University Hospitals called into regulator's office
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has called Cambridge University Hospitals to its offices to discuss whether the foundation trust is in significant breach of the terms of its authorisation.
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HSJ Local
Fifteen nurse hours per bed day at Shelford Group trusts
WORKFORCE: Research carried for the Shelford Group, which represents England’s most powerful teaching hospitals, shows each patient bed day accounts for an average of 15 nurse hours.
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NewsAccuracy of tariff improved, Audit Commission finds
The accuracy of a key component of the payment by results system has improved since 2007-08, according to a report from the Audit Commission.
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NewsMost powerful hospital trusts ask for more funding
England’s 10 most prestigious teaching and research hospital trusts have asked the Department of Health and the Treasury for a 10 per cent top-up to their tariff payments, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
NHS Cambridgeshire warns on QIPP delivery
FINANCE: Failing to deliver on QIPP projects could lead to an overspend of £13m in the acute sector for NHS Cambridgeshire, the cluster board has warned.
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HSJ Local
Cambridge Hospitals missing 18 week target
PERFORMANCE: Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust is not meeting the 18 week referral-to-treatment standard and progress on doing so has fallen behind plan, the PCT cluster board heard. The trust is likely to miss agreed recovery targets for some specialities.
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HSJ Local
Cambridge trust warned about surgical safety
PERFORMANCE: One of the country’s most prestigious teaching hospitals may be putting patients at risk because of inconsistent use of surgical check lists, the Care Quality Commission has warned.
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NewsTrust challenged over IT procurement process
One of England’s most prestigious hospital trusts has been accused of conducting a £20m IT tender having already picked the winner.
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NewsVascular services set for major reconfiguration
A major shake-up in vascular services is planned for the East of England, with several hospitals set to lose work.
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NewsExclusive: top foundation forms million-pound advertising agency
A leading foundation trust has set up a joint venture with a private company to sell advertising in NHS hospitals and on trust websites.
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NewsExpand independent sector provision, says 'most powerful' hospital chief
The NHS’s most powerful hospital trust chief executive has used a HSJ interview to call for an expansion of independent sector provision.
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NewsConcern over board FT meetings held in private
Only two out of the five acute foundation trusts which hold board meetings in private in the East of England have changed their policies, nearly a year being told to do so by the health secretary.
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: the future structure of community services in East Anglia
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of the key issues facing the NHS’s major health economies. This week, HSJ looks at the long term viability of community services in East Anglia.
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NewsRegional salary gaps evident as George Osborne confirms local pay
HSJ has obtained new evidence of salary disparities within and between regions as the government prepares to introduce local pay rates.
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NewsMost powerful NHS trust chief executive quits
One of the NHS’s most prominent chief executives is leaving to take up a job in Australia.