All HSJ Local articles – Page 269
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Pennine Acute’s in-month HSMR at 106.2 in January
PERFORMANCE: Latest figures from healthcare intelligence firm Dr Foster show that Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust’s hospital standardised mortality ratio rose in January, board papers state.
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Keogh team to visit Basildon next month
PERFORMANCE Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust will be visited by Sir Bruce Keogh’s mortality rates review team on 7 May, the trust has announced.
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Cambridge must update Monitor on A&E performance
PERFORMANCE Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has been ordered to give regular updates on its accident and emergency performance to Monitor, according to a board paper discussed this month.
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Five south west trusts report 12 hour trolley waits
PERFORMANCE: Seven patients admitted as emergencies to North Bristol Trust have waited more than 12 hours since the beginning of the financial year, more than any other trust in the south west.
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Bucks trust told to improve on staffing after CQC visit
PERFORMANCE: Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust has been warned to improve its staffing levels and training for nurses following an unannounced inspection.
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Monitor steps in at Dorset Healthcare
STRUCTURE: Monitor has taken regulatory action at Dorset Healthcare University Foundation Trust over concerns the board was not “performing effectively”.
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Basildon and Thurrock set to appoint in temporary “director of emergency care’
WORKFORCE Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust is set to appoint a temporary ‘director of emergency care’ in a bid to resolve concerns surroundings it’s A&E department and acute medical unit.
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Basildon and Thurrock’s licence sets out ‘wide ranging’ conditions
PERFORMANCE Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust has been granted a provider licence by regulator Monitor but it must meet “detailed and wide ranging” conditions, according to board papers published this week.
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Council urges criminal action against former Mid Staffs leadership
Stafford Borough Council has called for criminal action to be considered against the former leadership of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust over an alleged death rates cover-up.
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Portsmouth emergency performance below standard for six months
PERFORMANCE: Performance against the four hour accident and emergency target has been languishing below 90 per cent for two consecutive quarters in Portsmouth.
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CQC finds concerns at Plymouth Community Healthcare
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has found Plymouth Community Healthcare is failing standards on staffing and moniotring the quality of services.
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Somerset Partnership behind on telehealth roll out
PERFORMANCE: Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust is behind on a CQUIN target on deployment of telehealth by ten units.
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Ealing Council to seek judicial review of reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: Ealing Council has begun the process of starting judicial review proceedings against the Shaping a Healthier Future reconfiguration.
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North Cumbria leans on strategic support to show surplus
FINANCE: North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust was reporting a small surplus of £198,000 a month before the end of 2012-13, its latest finance report shows. However, in order to record a surplus the trust needed to include a disproportionately large chunk of the strategic support it had received for the ...
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG forecast to break even for 2012-13
FINANCE Cambridgeshire and Peterborough clinical commissioning group will break even for the 2012-13 financial year, according to a forecast in its April board papers.
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Portsmouth ends year on plan despite overspends
FINANCE: Portsmouth clinical commissioning group ended 2012-13 in surplus despite overspending on its major acute contract.
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Mental health trust announces job cuts
STRUCTURE Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has announced plans to cut 41 staff posts as it embarks on a controversial restructure which will see hundreds more jobs go.
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Addenbrooke's Hospital wards offered cash to discharge patients
PERFORMANCE Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust wards have been offered cash incentives to discharge patients under a controversial new scheme to alleviate bed blocking.
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Furness General MAU closed amid escalating norovirus outbreak
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust today closed the medical assessment unit of its Furness General Hospital to admissions and visitors, in a bid to curb an “escalating outbreak of suspected norovirus”.