All HSJ Local articles – Page 234
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Norfolk and Suffolk FT receives blood test boost
PERFORMANCE: Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has reduced the time it takes to test the blood of people taking clozapine from 30 minutes to five by using a new blood analyser, the trust has announced.
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Transforming Pathology Partnership appoints two non executive directors
WORKFORCE Transforming Pathology Partnership, a consortium providing pathology services on behalf of seven trusts across the East of England, has appointed two new non executive directors (NEDs).
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CQC warns Plymouth Hospitals over surgical safety for second time
PERFORMANCE: Plymouth Hospitals Trust has been issued with a warning notice by the Care Quality Commission after a two week inspection identified concern that theatres at Derriford Hospital were under too much pressure.
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Lancashire Teaching Hospitals plans £22m savings in 2013-14
FINANCE: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust aims to make cost improvement programme savings of £22m in 2013-14.
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West Middlesex reports cumalative deficit of £18m
FINANCE: West Middlesex University Hospital Trust has reported a cumulative deficit of £18m at the end of 2012-13.
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Keogh review highlights Dudley staffing concerns
PERFORMANCE: The Dudley Group Foundation Trust has said it is to carry out a review of staffing levels after concerns raised by the Keogh mortality review panel.
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Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust ‘unsafe’ staff told Keogh
Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust staff have described care provided by the trust as “unsafe”, the report by Sir Bruce Keogh’s mortality review team reveals.
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Keogh review highlights staffing challenges at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals
WORKFORCE: Nurse staffing levels were not always sufficient across Blackpool Teaching Hospitals and in need of urgent review, particularly on elderly care wards, the Keogh review has found.
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Burton in 'special measures' over staffing and engagement concerns
PERFORMANCE: Burton Hospitals Foundation Trust has been placed in “special measures”, and agreed to a series of improvement actions.
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Medway board told to focus on patient safety
PERFORMANCE: Medway Foundation Trust’s board needs “greater pace and clarity of focus” on improving the overall safety and experience of patients, according to the Keogh review.
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Sherwood Forest trust told to focus on quality over Monitor requirements
PERFORMANCE: The Keogh mortality review has asked Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust to focus on the quality and safety of patient care rather than “meeting Monitor [performance]breaches in finance and governance”.
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Tameside nurse staffing and supervision of junior doctors 'inadequate'
PERFORMANCE: The Keogh review of high death rate trusts has called for urgent action to address insufficient nurse staffing, inadequate supervision of junior doctors, and insufficient access to critical care beds at Tameside Hospital.
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Colchester failed to fully respond to staff's patient safey concerns
Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust managers potentially put patients at risk by their “apparent lack of response to escalated patient safety concerns”, Sir Bruce Keogh’s mortality rates review said.
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East Lancashire staffing 'insufficient to meet basic needs', Keogh review finds
WORKFORCE: Staffing on some of East Lancashire Hospital’s wards was “insufficient to meet the basic needs of patients”, a review of trusts with high mortality rates has concluded.
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Clinical leadership criticised at North Lincs
The Keogh review has found “lack of sufficient implementation of clinical strategies and effective clinical leadership” as one of the main areas of concern at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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George Eliot’s mortality reporting ‘unsatisfactory’ says Keogh review
George Eliot Hospital Trust must address concerns around its “unsatisfactory” reporting of quality and mortality and around patient safety, Sir Bruce Keogh’s mortality rates review team has said.
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Keogh tells Basildon take 'urgent action' on staffing and complaints
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust has been told to take “urgent action” on clinical staffing levels following Sir Bruce Keogh’s mortality rates review.
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Keogh finds disconnects at United Lincs
The Keogh review has identified “lack of escalation procedures, inadequate staffing levels and disconnected leadership” as some of the key areas of concern at the United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust.
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Keogh review: Inadequate staffing and governance failures at North Cumbria
PERFORMANCE: A probe of trusts with high death rates found inadequate staffing and sustained failures to ensure adequate maintenance of estates and medical equipment at North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust.
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Sheffield FT chair awarded OBE
WORKFORCE: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Chairman, Tony Pedder, has been awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.