All HSJ Local articles – Page 187
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HSJ LocalSheffield aims for single health and care budget
FINANCE: Sheffield’s clinical commissioning group and city council have unveiled plans to pool £237m more than required by national rules in 2015-16, with the “ultimate aim” of establishing a single budget for health and social care.
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Row between East Sussex trust and local MP over 'insulting' criticism
STRUCTURE: A south east trust has hit back at its Liberal Democrat MP for refusing to discuss his “insulting and inappropriate” criticisms of its restructuring programme.
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HSJ LocalBuckinghamshire Healthcare exits special measures
Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust has become the second trust to leave the special measures regime.
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HSJ LocalFT subsidiary takes over Circle clinic
A private firm wholly owned by a Midlands foundation trust is to take over the running of a private clinic from Circle
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HSJ LocalRecruitment struggle spells end for franchise rescue
The struggle of England’s smallest acute trust to recruit consultants played a major role in the decision to ditch its search for an independent sector management franchise to take it over, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ LocalDispute hits finances of CCG and provider in Shropshire
COMMERCIAL: A contract dispute between a clinical commissioning group and a trust in Shropshire has resulted in the CCG being placed in “financial recovery” and the provider pushed deeper into deficit, board papers showed.
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NHS 111 could be terminated in Norfolk
PERFORMANCE: The NHS 111 service could be terminated in Norfolk, as the East of England Ambulance Service Trust, which runs the service, has failed to secure sufficient funding.
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Cambs and Peterborough fails healthcare aquired infections target
PERFORMANCE: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group exceeded its annual ceiling for C difficile and MRSA in 2013-14, according to papers discussed it’s June governing body meeting.
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HSJ LocalNewcastle CCGs exceed threshold for healthcare aquired infections
PERFORMANCE: Newcastle North and East Clinical Commissioning Group exceeded its threshold for non-hospital related healthcare acquired infections by more than double in 2013-14.
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Newcastle FT exceeds C Diff threshold in 2013-14
PERFORMANCE: Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust reported 86 cases of C difficile in 2013-14, exceeding its threshold of 66, according to papers discussed at the June meeting of Gateshead, Newcastle North and and East and Newcastle West CCGs.
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Newcastle FT fails to meet nursing staffing levels
WORKFORCE: Planned nurse staffing levels were not met for 19 per cent of inpatient shifts at Newcastle Upon Tyne Foundation Trust in April, according to a paper discussed at its May board meeting.
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Stall in Birmingham Women's staff engagement
WORKFORCE: Staff engagement at Birmingham Women’s Foundation Trust has “stood still since” 2012, the trust’s May board papers state.
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St George's reduces number of missing medical notes with electronic tags
PERFORMANCE: St George’s Healthcare Trust slashed the number of medical notes going missing by attaching 9,000 “radio frequency identification” tags to notes, as part of an exercise.
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St George's aims to be authorised as an FT in November
STRUCTURE: St George’s Healthcare Trust aims to be authorised as a foundation trust in November, according to board papers.
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Initiative launched to share health data between Liverpool and Lancashire
The North West Coast Academic Health Science Network has launched a £500,000 programme to improve the sharing of patient data between health and social care services in Liverpool and Lancashire.
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HSJ LocalRotherham CCG awarded business 'excellence' standard
STRUCTURE: Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group has become the first NHS commissioning organisation to be awarded the Investors in Excellence standard.
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HSJ LocalCQC to conduct 'urgent' safety review at Stafford Hospital
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission is to undertake an “urgent review” of safety at Stafford Hospital after the special administrators of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust raised concerns about the “fragility” of services at the troubled provider.
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HSJ LocalBidder for £800m integrated care contract pulls out at final stage
COMMERCIAL: One of the bidders in the running for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group’s £800m integrated older people’s services contract has dropped out at the final stage.
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Trust requests 'immediate' staffing support from northern providers
WORKFORCE: A North West trust has had to write to acute NHS providers across the north of England to request immediate medical staffing support to maintain its services.
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Extra community nurses for Staffordshire
WORKFORCE: Sixty nine community nurses have been recruited to work in North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.