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HSJ LocalJune deadline for trust to move junior doctors after safety warning
Trust says “major efforts made by staff in the hospital to support training” were “not enough” to keep the trainees Thirty-eight junior doctors at East Kent trust will be affected Junior doctors and affected patients must transfer by 19 June A trust recently removed from special measures has ...
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HSJ LocalHospital trust removed from quality special measures
East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust is to exit special measures for quality, NHS Improvement announced today.
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HSJ LocalUpdated: Prestigious teaching trust exits special measures
CQC recommends Cambridge University Hospitals exits special measures after being rated good in latest inspection CQC praises the trust for improving staffing levels and governance Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has left special measures after it was rated good in its last inspection.
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NewsRound-up: 10 stories you may have missed over Christmas
Catch up on the key stories you might not have seen over the Christmas and new year break.
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HSJ LocalTrust recommended to exit special measures
CQC recommended East Kent Hospitals University FT leaves special measures Inspectors say significant improvements made in maternity and emergency care NHS Improvement defers decision till 2017 while it reviews trust’s finances England’s chief inspector of hospitals has recommended that East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust should exit special ...
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NewsExclusive: STPs chosen to lead major £350m back office savings drive
Greater Manchester, Kent, Essex and north west London to be back office merger “pathfinders” Their models will be used as blueprints for other STPs NHS Improvement says back office bill can be cut by £350m over next four years Four sustainability and transformation plan areas will spearhead system ...
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NewsRevealed: New oversight ratings for every NHS trust
Each trust placed in one of four categories based on the level of support they require from NHS Improvement Trusts will be formally categorised next month as part of the regulator’s new “single oversight framework” Thirty-five out of 238 trusts will have “maximum autonomy” See every rating in the ...
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HSJ LocalTrust's radiology information system crashes for nine days
System crash meant patients had to attend clinics without their imaging report Board papers said the trust had “plans to give notice” on the contract Trust says patient care was “not compromised” by the system failure A trust has said it has no plans to pull out of ...
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: How about some big action on data
The NHS must ensure that informatics’ potential for savings and productivity must be fulfilled quickly
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NewsMajor acute trusts already forecasting to miss control totals
Some of the largest hospital trusts in England are already struggling to meet their financial target for 2016-17, according to analysis by HSJ.
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HSJ LocalMajor South East hospital trust eyes reconfiguration
Three emergency medicine sites in East Kent likely to move to two Seven stroke units likely to reduce to three Vascular services expected to be reconfigured from two sites STRUCTURE: Stroke, vascular and emergency medicine services in Kent and Medway are likely to see major reconfiguration, one of ...
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HSJ LocalKent 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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NewsAnalysis: 20 trusts behind half of A&E performance decline
Twenty trusts responsible for most of the rise in A&E four hour target breaches Eight of the trusts also drove last year’s decline Smaller trusts disproportionately driving the decline Eight trusts hit the 95 per cent target for 2015-16 overall Twenty hospitals trusts are responsible for more than ...
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HSJ LocalHospitals providing stroke services to be cut in Kent
SERVICE DESIGN: The number of hospitals in Kent and Medway admitting patients for treatment after a stroke is likely to be reduced to three or four.
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HSJ LocalSTP 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 LocalKent 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 LocalHospital 'overwhelmed' by eye care demand
PERFORMANCE: A Kent trust has admitted it is “overwhelmed” with demand for ophthalmic services and has up to 7,000 patients at risk of worsening eyesight who require “urgent” follow up.
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NewsRevealed: First digital maturity index scores in full
This is a full list of trusts’ scores on the new digital maturity index, based on HSJ analysis of NHS England data.
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CommentShare data without falling foul of information governance
Data sharing is essential to improve patient care but appropriate governance arrangements need to be in place. By Marc Farr
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HSJ LocalKent A&E faces downgrade
ACUTE CARE: Emergency services at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital could be downgraded because of concerns that trainee doctors being left to cope with potentially seriously ill surgical patients.