All HSJ Local articles – Page 111

  • Royal Berkshire hospital
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    New chief executive for hospital trust

    2016-09-29T10:40:00Z

    A new chief executive for Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust has been appointed.

  • Ealing Hospital NHS Trust
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    'Gap' in CCG assurance process for Care UK contract

    2016-09-29T10:23:00Z

    Verita report identifies “gap” in CCG assurance process for urgent care contract Care UK staffing model for contract “took no account of predictable peaks in demand” CCG failed to seek assurances that contract was not adversely affecting staffing levels and care at north London centre There was a ...

  • Ambulance
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    Ambulance trust placed in special measures

    2016-09-29T00:01:00Z

    An ambulance trust is to be placed in special measures after inspectors rated in inadequate and identified concerns related to its leadership, culture and ability to ensure patient safety.

  • Dame Julie Moore
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    Julie Moore intervenes over future of inadequate hospital

    2016-09-27T17:04:00Z

    Dame Julie Moore criticises Worcestershire Acute Hospital’s plans for the Alexandra Hospital UHB chief executive says her trust could have provided an “exciting and innovative” proposal for the hospital UHB experiencing pressure from increase in patients from Worcester, Redditch and Bromsgrove One of the country’s most high profile ...

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    Updated: A&E concerns at North West trust

    2016-09-27T15:18:00Z

    The Care Quality Commission has raised safety concerns about the urgent and emergency services at a teaching trust in Merseyside.

  • Clifton bridge Bristol
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    Exclusive: Struggling CCGs weigh up merger

    2016-09-27T15:00:00Z

    Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire CCGs to appoint single accountable officer Correspondence between CCGs and NHS England reveals turnaround director will support the struggling groups NHS England director says “under-delivery” entrenched across the patch on a scale not seen elsewhere in the country Three clinical commissioning groups ...

  • Leeds General Infirmary
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    Hospital IT crash won't be resolved until end of the week

    2016-09-27T12:09:00Z

    Leeds and Bradford trusts cancel 132 operations IT system may not be fully restored until the end of this week Other hospitals in Yorkshire now providing pathology services to Bradford hospital and Leeds GPs Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has said it has now successfully cleared a backlog of ...

  • Cleaner
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    Hospital cleaning company faces loss of £200m contract over poor standards

    2016-09-27T11:28:00Z

    A privately provided cleaning contract worth £200m will be discussed by board members at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust this week amid “significant concerns” over standards, HSJ has learned.

  • operation
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    External review at top hospital over four maternal deaths

    2016-09-27T07:00:00Z

    External review into four maternal deaths at King’s College Hospital Internal reviews “did not establish a link between the [four] cases” In one case coroner rules says failure to give mother a blood transfusion “amounted to neglect” An external review is being carried out into four maternal deaths ...

  • inspection
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    CQC closed unit after CQC warning notice

    2016-09-27T00:01:00Z

    Mental health and community services trust given requires improvement rating Child and adolescent unit rated inadequate Concerns over lack of action to tackle ligature points North East London Foundation Trust has been given a ’requires improvement’ rating by the Care Quality Commission after inspectors issued a warning notice ...

  • mental health child
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    Staffing and leadership monitored at private hospital in special measures

    2016-09-26T07:00:00Z

    NHS England is closely monitoring staff “capacity and capability” at Huntercombe Hospital in Stafford after damning CQC report One ward remains closed and two have capped capacity CQC has completed a follow-up inspection, which the hospital says found improvements The “capacity and capability” of staff at the Huntercombe ...

  • New Cross Hospital
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    City leaders push for accountable care model covering 250,000 people

    2016-09-26T07:00:00Z

    A Midlands hospital trust is seeking to establish an accountable care model in partnership with its local metropolitan borough council and clinical commissioning group.

  • Man looking through microscope
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    IT failure leaves teaching hospital with 10,000 tests backlog

    2016-09-23T11:09:00Z

    Leeds and Bradford trusts cancelling non-urgent operations IT system may not be up and running until the end of next week Test results are being hand delivered but some are going to the wrong place with incorrect patient information One of the country’s largest teaching hospitals faces a ...

  • Bethlem Royal Hospital
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    Coroner: Trust neglect contributed to patient's fatal self-harm

    2016-09-23T07:00:00Z

    Neglect by South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust contributed to the death of a 15 year old mental health patient, a coroner has ruled.

  • Blodd test
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    GPs told to cancel blood tests after teaching trust's IT failure

    2016-09-22T17:06:00Z

    CCGs tell all GPs in Leeds to cancel routine blood tests after hardware fault at Leeds Teaching Hospital GPs expect to have to recall some patients for testing as samples become unviable Fault is also affecting Bradford Teaching Hospitals and caused “critical” internal incident at Leeds All routine ...

  • Lungx x-ray
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    Trust's mortality concerns persist despite multiple improvement drives

    2016-09-22T07:00:00Z

    East and North Hertfordshire Trust had outlier SHMI rates in five out of the eight reporting periods since 2014 “Large difference” between HSMR and SHMI rates due to palliative care coding Latest quality account report raised concerns over information governance, lower rate of incident reporting and never events ...

  • Lewisham hospital
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    Exclusive: Frontrunners for elective centres revealed

    2016-09-22T07:00:00Z

    Commissioners have revealed the frontrunners to host elective centres in south east London.

  • Calculator
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    Large teaching trust ended year with £118m deficit

    2016-09-22T07:00:00Z

    FINANCE: King’s College Hospitals Foundation Trust ended the 2015-16 financial year with an underlying deficit of £118m.

  • Cheltenham general hospital
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    Gloucestershire finance director got six months' pay on resignation

    2016-09-21T18:02:00Z

    Helen Simpson received at least £72,500 as six months’ pay in lieu of notice Finance director resigned from Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust after £13.4m downward revision in trust’s finances Chief executive pledges to make referral to professional bodies if review finds wrongdoing at trust A finance director at ...

  • Researcher using microscope
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    IT crash causes 'critical incident' at major teaching hospital

    2016-09-21T14:00:00Z

    Operations and appointments have been cancelled after a “critical” fault with Leeds Teaching Hospitals’ pathology IT system Test results are having to be hand delivered to clinical teams with significant impact on patient flow Fault is also affecting Bradford Teaching Hospitals and local GPs who use the trust’s pathology ...