Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust – Page 17
-
HSJ Local
Heatherwood FT sickness rate costs £720,000 in one month
WORKFORCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has reported that it lost 3,321 working days in April to sickness, at a cost of £720,000.
-
News
Foundation trusts borrowing over £1bn from DH
Foundation trusts have secured loans worth more than £1bn from the Department of Health, HSJ can reveal, prompting concern about the impact of increased debts on foundation trust independence.
-
HSJ Local
CQC success for Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals FT
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission said the foundation trust passed both of the standards relating to dignity and nutrition it inspected during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
-
HSJ Local
Hampshire misses CIP target as acute sector over-performs
FINANCE: Hampshire primary care trust missed its 2010-11 cost improvement plan by 10 per cent, and had to spend £9.1m of uncommitted reserves to ensure a £500,000 underspend for the year.
-
NewsStruggling trusts owe DH quarter of a billion in bailout cash
Trusts owe the Department of Health a quarter of a billion pounds, with most of the debt resulting from mass bailouts made during the financial crisis of 2006, DH figures reveal.
-
HSJ Local
Delayed payments bolster Berks FT cash position
FINANCE: The February cash position of Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was more than £1.6m better than planned, due to planned overpayments to neighbouring trusts.
-
HSJ Local
Smaller trusts forced to rethink FT plans
STRUCTURE: Several smaller trusts that could not confirm the date on which they will apply for foundation status had previously been confident of achieving it.
-
HSJ Local
Provider contracts still in dispute
COMMERCIAL: A third of contracts between providers and commissioners in the North West are still incomplete, HSJ has discovered.
-
HSJ Local
Heatherwood and Wexham Park given extension to resolve dispute
FINANCE: A foundation trust with high-profile financial difficulties has been given an extra three months to finalise its commissioner contract for 2011-12.
-
HSJ Local
Police to discuss controlled drugs policy with Frimley Park staff
WORKFORCE: The FT is making efforts to improve areas of poor performance in theatres, with a focus on improving management of controlled drugs.
-
HSJ Local
Frimley Park expects improvement on stroke to result from workforce changes
PERFORMANCE: The FT expects to improve its stroke services “imminently” after a lengthy period of below par performance, according to board papers.
-
HSJ Local
Frimley Park Hospital FT acts to improve trauma performance
PERFORMANCE: The FT is making efforts to improve areas of poor performance in trauma and orthopaedics.
-
HSJ Local
Work to begin this month on new Frimley Park A&E
STRUCTURE: Work is about to start on Frimley Park Hospital’s new emergency department, day surgery unit and helipad.
-
HSJ Local
Frimley Park reports high risk of emergency admission care failure
PERFORMANCE: The FT is currently rated as at “extremely high” risk of failing to provide clinical management of emergency admissions.
-
HSJ Local
Frimley Park asked to invest in informatics strategy
FINANCE: The FT is “falling behind” other hospitals on informatics and looks set to invest more in this area as a result, according to latest board papers.
-
HSJ Local
Frimley Park FT appoints two new NEDs
WORKFORCE: Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has appointed two new non-executive directors to its board.
-
NewsJoint pathology venture fairly awarded, CCP decides
A foundation trust did not breach competition principles in selecting a public/private partnership for its pathology services, the NHS market regulator has found.
-
HSJ Local
Heatherwood and Wexham Park missing cancer targets due to capacity problems
PERFORMANCE: “Chronic capacity problems” are preventing Heatherwood and Wexham Park FT from meeting cancer waiting time targets, according to board papers.
-
HSJ Local
Legionella shuts nursery at Heatherwood and Wexham Park
PERFORMANCE: A nursery at Heatherwood and Wexham Park FT was closed temporarily after high levels of legionella were found in a water tank.
-
HSJ Local
Sickness costs Heatherwood and Wexham Park over £4m
WORKFORCE: Staff sickness costs at Heatherwood and Wexham Park amounted to £4.2m in between June and December 2010, according to board minutes.