All HSJ Local articles – Page 175
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Bullying claim at cancer trust dismissed by High Court
WORKFORCE: A former associate director of Christie Foundation Trust who sued the provider for alleged bullying behaviour has had her case thrown out by the High Court in Liverpool.
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Plan to shake up services at struggling North West trust revealed
STRUCTURE: Controversial proposals to transfer patients between hospital sites at a struggling North West trust have been revealed.
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CCG consults on plans to downgrade coastal maternity units
STRUCTURE: North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group is consulting on plans to downgrade two coastal maternity units.
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Bath GPs to launch diabetes drug trial
CLINICAL RESEARCH: A network of GP surgeries around Bath has been selected as the site of a clinical trial for a diabetes drug from the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
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Respected London trust told to improve by CQC
PERFORMANCE: A respected London teaching hospital has been told it ‘requires improvement’ by the Care Quality Commission.
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Foundation trust 'pauses' development of new hospital
STRCUTURE: North Tees and Hartlepool Foundation Trust has shelved a plan to build a new hospital until after the next general election.
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Trust's winter cash withheld until it has 'believable' A&E plan
PERFORMANCE: One of the worst performing areas on the four hour accident and emergency target has seen its “system resilience” money withheld temporarily after failing to devise a “believable” improvement plan.
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Virgin clinic probed over 'large number' of waiting time breaches
PERFORMANCE: A Surrey breast screening centre run by Virgin Care Services is being investigated following a ‘large number’ of waiting times breaches.
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Devon CCG warns 'services will suffer' due to unaffordable demand
FINANCE: The country’s biggest clinical commissioning group will have to take immediate action to prioritise patient access to services in the face of unaffordable increases in demand, it has warned.
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Equipment fault leaves patients concerned over diagnosis
PERFORMANCE: Barts Health Trust has apologised to patients in east London after their blood test results were contaminated by an equipment fault at its Whipps Cross Hospital site.
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West Midlands trust could be forced to change leadership
PERFORMANCE: A major West Midlands trust could be forced to change its leadership unless it starts hitting waiting times targets, according to a condition placed on its licence by Monitor.
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CCG leaders attack ‘unjustifiable’ funding differences
FINANCE: The leaders of three Berkshire clinical commissioning groups have written to MPs to say that the level of variation in the funding of local commissioners “simply cannot be justified”.
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Monitor investigates Wiltshire trust’s finances
FINANCE: The regulator Monitor has opened an investigation into Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust as a result of the provider’s ongoing financial problems.
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CCG announces bidders for £40m community services contract
COMMERCE: Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group has named the bidders to make it through the first stage of a procurement process for a £40m community and out of hours contract.
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Trust trials pathway manager to improve cancer performance
PERFORMANCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust is to pilot a new post of ‘pathway manager’ to speed the transfer of cancer patients from other hospitals to its specialist unit.
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East Sussex CCG puts community contract out to tender
COMMERCIAL: High Weald Lewes Havens Clinical Commissioning has put its community services out to tender after serving notice on its part of a block contract.
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Patient groups welcome mental health chief’s departure from review panel
PERFORMANCE: Charities and patient groups have welcomed a mental health trust boss’s decision to withdraw from an expert panel examining patient centred care, arguing she was an inappropriate choice for the role.
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Liverpool reconfiguration plans unveiled
Cancer surgery in Merseyside could be relocated to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, under ambitious proposals being developed to reshape the city’s health services
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Ambulance service to stay on as out-of-hours provider
COMMERCIAL: South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust is to continue to provide out-of-hours services in Gloucestershire after winning a fresh contract, it has announced.
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East Lancashire appoints new directors
WORKFORCE: East Lancashire Hospitals Trust has appointed two new directors