All HSJ Local articles – Page 342
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Colchester faces cancer target ‘challenge’
Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust “anticipates” it will hit all national cancer targets by the middle of 2012-13 after missing a first quarter target.
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Care UK wins Suffolk care home contract
Suffolk County Council has awarded Care UK a contract to develop 10 new care homes and 10 new wellbeing centres.
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Herts hospital bids to cut energy costs
FINANCE: Hertfordshire-based Lister Hospital has changed the way it buys its energy from the National Grid in a move which could substantially cut its energy bills.
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Hillingdon Hospitals wins ophthalmology and GP pathology contracts
COMMERCIAL: Hillingdon Hospitals has won community ophthalmology and GP pathology contracts worth £2.3m and £6m respectively, board papers reveal.
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Four directors appointed to Durham, Darlington & Tees LAT
WORKFORCE: Four directors have been appointed to the NHS Commissioning Board’s Durham, Darlington & Tees Local Area Team.
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Three directors appointed to North Yorkshire and Humber LAT
WORKFORCE: Three directors have been appointed to the NHS Commissioning Board’s North Yorkshire and Humber Local Area Team.
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Mental health reconfiguration consultation nears end
STRUCTURE: A consultation on the reconfiguration of mental health services across Kent is due to end on 26 October.
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Trust 'run like school, not a hospital'
WORKFORCE: A report to the board of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust said the organisation was “run like a school, not a hospital”, with staff taking “assuming” they could take the school holidays off.
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Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals misses A&E target
PERFORMANCE: Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals has now missed the A&E four-hour wait target for each month of the financial year.
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New vascular surgery service for Derbyshire
STRUCTURE: Two East Midlands foundation trusts have joined forces to provide an integrated vascular surgery service to the whole of Derbyshire.
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Two never events at Hampshire Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust recorded two “never events” in June, including one caused by clinicians getting an x-ray back to front.
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New AQP providers get go-ahead for CBT in Kent
COMMERCIAL: New organisations have been given the go-ahead to provide talking therapy, including cognitive behavioural therapy, across Kent and Medway.
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Norovirus outbreak at Mid Staffordshire
PERFORMANCE: Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has closed one ward and its acute stroke unit to admissions, transfers and discharges to nursing homes after an outbreak of norovirus.
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New beds for Lincolnshire trauma patients
FINANCE: An East Midlands trust has spent more than £15,000 to purchase 15 new high-tech beds for trauma patients.
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Hillingdon Hospitals earns same revenue year-on-year with '120 fewer staff'
WORKFORCE: A report to the board of Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust said its revenue was £1m ahead of plan in August, with costs £838,000 higher than plan, with £500,000 “directly linked with the higher NHS clinical income achieved”.
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Virgin community services begin in Sussex
COMMERCIAL: A new community musculoskeletal service has been launched across Hastings and Rother following a tender exercise won by Virgin Care.
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Swale CCG seeks lay members
WORKFORCE: Two independent lay members are being sought to join the governing body of Swale Clinical Commissioning Group.
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HSJ LocalGloucestershire community services to stay in the NHS
COMMERCIAL: A primary care trust whose plans to transfer community services to a social enterprise were halted by a legal challenge has decided to keep the services within the NHS.
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HSJ LocalBristol children's heart surgery faces CQC concerns
PERFORMANCE: Children’s heart surgery services at the Bristol Children’s Hospital face likely criticism from the Care Quality Commission following an investigation, HSJ understands.
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Wolverhampton trust faces £6m pay-out
PERFORMANCE: The family of a disabled boy will receive a £6m pay out from the NHS after doctors and midwives at the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals Trust failed to recognise he was being starved of oxygen during his birth 11 years ago.