All HSJ Local articles – Page 202
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Ambulance delays after IT blackout
Ambulance callouts were delayed on Christmas Day when London Ambulance Service Trust experienced an IT failure that forced staff to use pen and paper to record 999 calls.
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Trust receives £10m loan after not getting 'winter pressures' funding
FINANCE: A hospital trust has received a £10m loan from the Department of Health after failing to get funding to tackle winter pressures.
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Private firm withdraws George Eliot bid
COMMERCIAL: George Eliot Hospital Trust has confirmed that one of the private firms shortlisted to take it over has pulled out of the bidding process.
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Northamptonshire Healthcare drops out of £800m contract race
COMMERCE: Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust has become the latest bidder to withdraw from a contest to win a flagship £800m older people’s services contract.
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Alder Hey safety concerns raised
An internal review at a leading children’s hospital has found significant safety concerns in its theatre departments.
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Trust admits it wrongly reported same sex compliance
PERFORMANCE: Dorset Healthcare University Foundation Trust has notified regulators that it has been failing standards on same sex accommodation for more than two years, despite reporting compliance.
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Legal challenge issued after out-of-hours firm loses bids
A provider of GP out-of-hours services is taking legal action after it lost bids in two out of three areas where they being tendered.
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Yorkshire ambulance staff poised to strike
WORKFORCE: Staff at Yorkshire Ambulance Service Trust are balloting for strike action over concerns changes to shift patterns could lead to paramedics working up to 10 hours without a meal break.
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Never events at Barts Health Trust
Three never events have been reported by Barts Health Trust according to newly released data from NHS England’s that aims to provide detail on medical incidents that should not occur if proper practice is being followed.
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Public healthcare shunned for private in east London
GPs and patients in east London may be choosing private treatment because of dissatisfaction with services at Barts Health Trust, according to Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group’s latest board papers.
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CQC lifts concerns at Weston
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has found Weston Area Health Trust is now meeting all standards for acute trusts.
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Eight patients left on trolleys for over 12 hours
Eight patients at King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust were left to wait on a trolley for over 12 hours over the Christmas period, according to NHS England data.
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Yorkshire trust under investigation after CQC inspection
Monitor has launched an investigation into Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, following concerns raised by the Care Quality Commission about accident and emergency staffing levels.
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Tube wrongly put in patient's lung
A elderly woman died from a combination of natural disease, stroke and the “misplacement” of a feeding tube into her lung due a hospital blunder, a coroner has said.
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NHS Wales chief takes top job at East Midlands trust
The chief executive of NHS Wales has been appointed to run Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust.
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CQC identifies further failings at Heatherwood and Wexham Park
The Care Quality Commission has told Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals Foundation Trust to make urgent improvements, after an inspection found it was more focused on “responding to… targets” than “ensuring that overall patient experiences were positive”.
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Colchester acting chief executive resigns
WORKFORCE: The acting chief executive of Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust, under investigation by police over allegations of cancer data manipulation, has announced her resignation.
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Royal Devon seeks solution to poor stroke performance
STRUCTURE: Stroke care in the Exeter area may need to be restructured in order to meet key performance targets, board papers reveal.
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Calderdale and Huddersfield misses target for TIA patients
PERFORMANCE: Only 51 per cent of transient ischemic attack patients with high risk of stroke were treated within 24 hours at Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust in October, falling below the 60 per cent target.
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East Riding of Yorkshire introduces C diff card
PERFORMANCE: East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group has introduced a voluntary C difficile card, which will be issued to patients who test positive for the bacteria at hospital or their GP surgery.