All HSJ Local articles – Page 406
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Harrogate FT expecting 'difficult' contract negotiation
FINANCE: Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust was exepcting “difficult” contract negotiations for 2012-13 with its lead commissioner.
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Birmingham Women's trust struggles on CIPs
PERFORMANCE: Birmingham Women’s Foundation Trust is struggling financially on gynaecology and maternity services, and struggling to achieve its own objectives in four out of five service areas.
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Ealing Hospital over-performs on planned activity by £8.5m
FINANCE: The west London acute trust recorded a year-end overperformance of £8.5m.
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Southampton researchers find milk benefits premature babies
RESEARCH: A neonatal expert based at Southampton’s teaching hospitals says earlier introduction of milk feeds for premature babies can improve their health and weight and reduce time spent in intensive care.
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East Sussex Healthcare issues pathology tender
COMMERCIAL: East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has issued a tender to provide pathology services for its hospital sites.
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NHS Surrey launches vaccination drive
PERFORMANCE: NHS Surrey is reminding parents of the importance of protecting their children by getting them vaccinated.
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CQC criticises Kent and Medway assessment service
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has identified major concerns at a service run by Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.
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Spire to manage trust's private patient unit
COMMERCIAL: The private hospital chain Spire has secured a three-year deal to run the private patient unit at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in north London.
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SHA's proposed cut to mental health funding 'disgraceful'
FINANCE: A strategic health authority has asked staff to plan for a cut of nearly two-thirds in its mental health research and analysis budget to make up a shortfall on cancer projects.
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Prostate treatment pioneered at Southampton
Doctors at University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust are the first in the UK to use a pioneering non-surgical procedure to treat men suffering an enlarged prostate.
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Nursing director follows chief exec and chair out of James Paget
WORKFORCE: Nursing director Carole Crocker is the latest senior manager to leave the troubled James Paget University Hospitals Foundation Trust in Great Yarmouth.
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North Cumbria savings target under pressure from 2011 shortfall
FINANCE: Shortfalls in North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust’s 2011-12 savings programme have nearly doubled the cost reductions it will need this year, its latest finance report shows.
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NHS Plymouth issues contract notice over A&E performance
PERFORMANCE: NHS Plymouth has issued Plymouth Hospitals Trust with a contract performance notice, after the trust failed to meet the four hour accident and emergency target during February and March.
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Ealing Hospital misses maternity target
PERFORMANCE: Ealing Hospital Trust has missed its target for 12-week screenings for pregnant women.
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Locum costs and bed pressures key risk to Weston budget
FINANCE: Expenditure on locum staffing is one of the key risks to the delivery of Weston Area Health Trust’s 2012-13 budget, papers presented to April’s board reveal.
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New community IV therapy provider for CCG
COMMERCIAL: Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale’s clinical commissioning group will this week be asked to approve the award of a £1.36m contract for community IV therapy to not-for-profit provider Mastercall.
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Royal Cornwall patients request alternative provider
PERFORMANCE: In 2011-12 41 patients at the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust invoked their rights under the NHS Consititution to request treatment at an alternative provider.
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Plymouth Hospitals Trust struggles with 18 week backlog
PERFORMANCE: Almost 1,000 patients at Plymouth Hospitals Trust had been waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment at the end of March.
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Chair of troubled mental health trust resigns
WORKFORCE: The chair of a troubled mental health trust has resigned and its chief executive has gone on leave ahead of the publication of a report into the organisation’s governance.
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Peninsula Community Health exceeds C diff limit
PERFORMANCE: Peninsula Community Health has has twice as many cases of Clostridium difficile as its agreed limit during 2011-12.