All HSJ Local articles – Page 212
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough considers £50m musculoskeletal tender
The clinical commissioning group running a £800m tender for older people’s services has revealed it could also tender a musculoskeletal service contract worth more than £50m a year.
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Epsom and St Helier spending more on agency medics than last year
WORKFORCE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust is spending more on agency medics than it did last year, board papers reveal.
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Sheffield Hospitals agrees main contracts
FINANCE: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has agreed contracts with its main commissioners, more than a quarter into 2013-14.
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West Middlesex asks for £7.6m bailout this year
FINANCE: West Middlesex University Hospital Trust has asked for a £7.6m bailout this year, board papers reveal.
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Oxfordshire delayed transfers three times the normal rate
PERFORMANCE: Delayed transfers of care are three times the target rate at Oxford University Hospitals Trust.
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Royal Cornwall FT application on hold
STRUCTURE: Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust has withdrawn its request to reactivate its foundation trust application due to board resignations earlier this year.
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Oxford trust removes specialisms from the Horton amid high complication rates
PERFORMANCE: Oxford University Hospitals Trust has stopped gall bladder surgery at its Horton General Hospital after a Royal College of Surgeons review found higher than expected complication rates.
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A&E target being met at Sheffield hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust met the accident and emergency waiting target in the year to the end of July, despite greater than expected demand.
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Monitor to probe CCGs' block contract
Monitor is to investigate a complaint that referrals to a private hospital dropped after two clinical commissioning groups entered into a block contract with a local NHS hospital.
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Hertfordshire Trust unveils £42m mental health unit
MENTAL HEALTH: Hertfordshire Partnership University Foundation Trust will open a brand new £42m in-patient unit for mental health patients in 2014.
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Ambulance handovers still big problem at North Bristol
PERFORMANCE: Almost half of ambulances arriving at North Bristol Trust in the last week of August waited more than 15 minutes to handover their patient to hospital staff.
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Pennine Acute Hospitals chief executive retiring
WORKFORCE: Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust chief executive John Saxby is retiring.
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Burton Hospitals interested in George Eliot takeover
STRUCTURE: The board of Burton Hospitals Foundation Trust have agreed to proceed to the Pre-Qualification Questionaire stage of the take-over/franchise process for George Eliot Hospital Trust.
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Ipswich Hospital Trust pays ‘more than £5m’ compensation to disabled boy
Ipswich Hospital Trust has paid “more than £5m” in compensation to a seven-year-old boy who was left severely disabled after the hospital was judged to have mismanaged his birth.
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Trust in court over patient death
An NHS trust is to appear in court on Wednesday charged with safety breaches connected to the death of a diabetic patient.
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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals cancer care praised
PERFORMANCE: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals has performed well in the cancer patient experience survey, according to a board paper.
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Birmingham Children's Hospital hails feedback app
PERFORMANCE: Birmingham Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust has said an innovative new feedback app - which allows patients to make comments on how they are being treated in almost real-time – has been a success.
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Sussex health visitors seek UNICEF kite mark
PERFORMANCE: The infant feeding service in West Sussex has launched a programme to achieve UNICEF baby friendly accreditation.
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Non-executive director joins Sussex community trust
WORKFORCE: Stephen Lightfoot has been appointed as a non-executive director at Sussex Community NHS Trust.
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Royal Cornwall takes action over cardiology concerns
PERFORMANCE: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has restricted the practice of a consultant cardiologist after identifying concerns during “routine scrutiny”.