All EAST LANCASHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST articles – Page 10
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HSJ LocalVascular controversy spreads to Lancashire
Discontent over the Cheshire and Merseyside vascular reconfiguration has spread across the North West
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: North West’s vascular controversy spreads to Lancashire and Cumbria
Discontent over the Cheshire and Merseyside vascular reconfiguration has spread across the North West
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East Lancs Hospitals makes 'excellent progress' on FT application
STRUCTURE: East Lancashire Hospitals Trust made “excellent progress” in the last month on its application for foundation trust status, according to an update report to the trust board.
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NewsMorecambe Bay faces loss of vascular services
STRUCTURE: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust could lose up to £2m a year through commissioner plans to transfer its complex vascular surgery work to another trust, its board was warned last week.
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East Lancashire eyes ‘new market’ as result of Manchester maternity reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: The reconfiguration of maternity services across Greater Manchester may open up a “new market” for East Lancashire’s Burnley General Hospital, trust board papers state.
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East Lancs PCT banks an extra £10m with SHA
FINANCE: The primary care trust NHS East Lancashire has increased by £10m the sum it will “lodge” with strategic health authority NHS North West on the basis that it will be returned in 2012-13.
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East Lancs Hospitals sees rise in activity from Rochdale A&E closure
FINANCE: The closure of the accident and emergency department at the nearby Rochdale Infirmary has driven up emergency activity at East Lancashire, triggering financial penalties for the trust, its commissioners have reported.
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East Lancs midwife gets OBE
WORKFORCE: Sheena Byrom, a consultant midwife at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, has been awarded an OBE for services to midwifery.
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Adult hearing and musculoskeletal services to be opened to competition in Lancashire
STRUCTURE: Diagnostics, adult hearing and musculoskeletal services will be opened up to competition from any qualified provider by North Lancashire Teaching PCT in 2012, according to a new “AQP map” published by the Department of Health.
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NewsExclusive: Dr Foster names 10 trusts overlooking fast recovery processes
Ten hospital trusts which do not follow evidence-based processes for fast recovery from surgery have been named by Dr Foster Intelligence.
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Potential industrial action at two North West path labs, Unite warns
WORKFORCE: Two acute trusts in the North West could face industrial action in their pathology labs.
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Lancashire providers to hold QIPP summit
FINANCE: Lancashire providers are to hold a summit of all clinical leaders, finance directors and chief executives in a bid to “reframe” savings plans on “improving outcomes” and addressing financial challenges collectively.
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East Lancashire children’s nurse selected for national ice hockey team
WORKFORCE: A Blackburn nurse has been selected to play ice hockey for England in Canada.
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C difficile cases rise faster than planned at East Lancashire Hospitals Trust
PERFORMANCE: Cases of C difficile rose faster than planned at the trust in the first three months of 2011-12, latest board reports show.
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CQC notes minor concerns on nutrition at East Lancs
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was meeting standards relating to dignity and nutrition during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated – but noted room for improvement on nutrition.
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NewsDH to review FT application process to avoid 'embarrassment'
The Department of Health is overhauling the process for checking whether a trust is ready to apply for foundation status to avoid “embarrassing” the health secretary, HSJ has discovered.
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Calderdale FT finance director joins East Lancs as chief executive
WORKFORCE: Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust finance director Mark Brearley has joined East Lancashire Hospital Trust as chief executive.
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Blackburn with Darwen surplus was ahead of plan in January
FINANCE: The care trust plus was reporting a 2010-11 in-year surplus of £1.195m against its NHS commissioning and provider services budgets at the end of January, £23,000 above its planned surplus to that point of the year.
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East Lancs Hospitals amber-green against foundation trust standards
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s February performance would have been rated amber-green against foundation trust regulator Monitor’s compliance framework, a report to its April board meeting states.
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East Lancs Hospitals Trust agrees £307.5m acute contract for 2011-12
FINANCE: The trust has secured a £307.5m acute services contract for 2011-12, in what it believes to be one of the first contract negotiations for the year concluded in Cumbria or Lancashire.