All HSJ Local articles – Page 280
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South Tees expects £1m surplus
FINANCE: A year end surplus of £1m is still expected by South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust – but it is having to use contingency funds to deliver it.
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North Bristol trust to appoint chief executive
STRUCTURE: North Bristol NHS Trust is set to recruit a new chief executive. The outcome of the Bristol Acute Services Review found that “any organisational change involving integration between United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust and North Bristol NHS Trust would be premature at this time.”
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Cambridge FT wins £18m from Green Investment Bank
FINANCE: The Green Investment Bank will plough £18m into a biomass facility for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, in the bank’s first investment in the NHS.
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Great Western Hospitals awarded funds for maternity upgrade
SERVICE DESIGN: Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded £400,000 to upgrade it maternity unit - The Princess Anne Wing -based at the Royal United Hospital in Bath.
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Salford Royal opens Bolton-based dialysis unit
SERVICE DESIGN- Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust has opened a new Bolton-based dialysis unit for renal patients.
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Royal Liverpool pioneering treatment for rare liver cancer
RESEARCH: Researchers from the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust Royal have been pioneering an innovative new technique to treat patients with rare liver cancer hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) that can extend their life expectancy and reduce side effects.
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New NED at Pennine Acute
STRUCTURE: Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has appointed Shauna Dixon to sit on the trust board as a non-executive director.
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New clinical streaming service at Countess of Chester
PERFORMANCE: The Countess of Chester Hospital has introduced a new service in its A&E department in a bid to reduce the number of patients attending with non-urgent conditions.
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Cumberland Infirmary gets prosthetic care funding boost
SERVICE DESIGN: Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle has won part of the Government’s £11m funding boost to improve NHS prosthetic care for war veterans.
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A&E performance plummets at Stockport FT
PERFORMANCE: The proportion of Stockport FT accident and emergency patients admitted or treated and discharged within four hours has fallen sharply below national standards, latest commissioner board papers show.
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Imperial ahead on finance forecast
FINANCE: Imperial College Healthcare Trust is ahead of plan on its year-to-date financial position, an NHS London report said.
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Coventry and Rugby CCG authorised in wave four
STRUCTURE: Coventry and Rugby clinical commissioning group has been authorised with eight conditions.
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Southampton CCG authorised with one condition
STRUCTURE: Southampton clinical commissioning group has been authorised with just one condition.
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Warwickshire North CCG authorised with three conditions
STRUCTURE: Warwickshire North clinical commissioning group has been authorised with three conditions.
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Queen Elizabeth Kings Lynn Trust reports mixed sex accommodation breaches
PERFORMANCE Four of the five mixed sex accommodation breaches reported in the Midlands and East in December 2012 were recorded by Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn Trust.
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Congenital Cardiac Association questions Leeds service closure
PERFORMANCE: The British Congenital Cardiac Association has criticised the release of “raw” and “unverified” data about outcomes from children’s heart surgery at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust.
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Bleep system replaced at Leicester Hospitals
WORKFORCE: University Hospitals of Leicester has replaced its traditional out of hours ‘bleep’ process with a hi-tech mobile system to provide better care 24 hours a day.
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Trust calls for more early discharges
PERFORMANCE: Early discharge of patients before noon is a key action for staff at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust.
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Leeds child heart surgery suspended after NHS England intervention
A review into children’s congenital heart surgery at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust is underway after NHS England intervened to ask the trust to suspend services.
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Buckinghamshire Healthcare FT application delayed three months amid mortality concerns
STRUCTURE: Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust’s bid for foundation status has been put back three months after it was identified as an outlier on mortality rates.