All HSJ Local articles – Page 419
-
HSJ Local
Oxford trust struggles with delayed transfers of care
PERFORMANCE: Delayed transfers of care are proving hard to reduce at University Hospitals of Oxford Trust, and are “crowding out” other elective activity.
-
HSJ Local
Shrewsbury and Telford reports first surplus of the year
FINANCE: Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals Trust recorded a surplus for the first time in the year at the end of January amounting to £123,000.
-
HSJ Local
Doncaster and Bassetlaw appoints clutch of new directors
WORKFORCE: Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has appointed four new executive directors.
-
HSJ Local
Go ahead for Middlesbrough neuro centre
STRUCTURE: Planning permission has been granted for a new centre for the support and rehabilitation of people with long term neurological conditions in Middlesbrough.
-
HSJ Local
RDASH foundation trust appoints medical directors
WORKFORCE: Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber Mental Health Foundation Trust has appointed a medical director and associate medical director.
-
HSJ Local
Trafford council may pull social care workers out of GMW teams, board warned
WORKFORCE: A paper to GMW’s January board warned that the “economic climate” may prompt Trafford council to pull staff out the trust’s community mental health teams.
-
HSJ Local
Work begins on Morpeth health centre
STRUCTURE: Work has begun on an £18m health centre in Morpeth, to house two existing GP practices.
-
HSJ Local
Air ambulance chief moves to Wells
WORKFORCE: The former chief executive of East Anglian Air Ambulance is to run the Wells Community Hospital in north Norfolk.
-
HSJ Local
East of England Ambulance will provide Norfolk's out-of-hours service
FINANCE: East of England Ambulance Service Trust is to continue to provide GP out-of-hours services in Norfolk.
-
HSJ Local
Felicity Cox takes the top job at Bedfordshire and Luton
WORKFORCE: Felicity Cox is to take over as PCT cluster chief executive at NHS Bedfordshire and Luton.
-
HSJ Local
Stevenage's Lister Hospital plans £38m development
SERVICES: Former therapies buildings at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage are to be demolished to make way for a planned £19m emergency department and £19m ward block.
-
HSJ Local
South Essex £5.1m in surplus
FINANCE: South Essex Partnership Foundation trust was £5.1m in surplus at the end of December - slightly ahead of plan.
-
HSJ Local
New Morecambe Bay chair reports gulf between clinicians and managers
WORKFORCE: The newly-installed chairman of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay this week said he had found a “massive gulf” between clinicians and managers at the troubled foundation trust.
-
HSJ Local
Chesterfield Royal closes wards due to Norovirus
PERFORMANCE: The trust has had to close adult inpatient wards due to Norovirus.
-
HSJ Local
Colds and flu drive up Sussex Partnership sickness absence
WORKFORCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust had a sickness absence rate for December 2011 of 4.26 per cent, up from 4.14 per cent in November.
-
HSJ Local
Serco named as preferred bidder for East Kent deal
COMMERCIAL: Serco Group has been selected as preferred bidder for a contract to provide integrated facilities management services to East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust.
-
HSJ Local
Virgin and Serco on shortlist for Devon children's services
COMMERCIAL: Virgin Healthcare, Serco and Devon Partnership Trust have been shortlisted as potential providers of integrated children’s services in Devon.
-
HSJ Local
New chief executive to lead integrated future for Yeovil
STRUCTURE: Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust has appointed a new chief executive with experience of running community services as it shifts its focus to delivery of an integrated range of services.
-
HSJ Local
More than 100 new staff hired at Heatherwood FT
WORKFORCE: The total number of staff employed at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust is going up, despite the turnover rate for the organisation’s administrative and clerical workforce topping 33 per cent in January.
-
HSJ Local
Ward moves at Western Sussex Hospitals
STRUCTURE: The last remaining patients at one of Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust’s hospital sites are being moved this week into new facilities, marking the end of a service redesign programme.