All HSJ Local articles – Page 424
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Royal Berkshire CEO confronted over trust finances
FINANCE: Directors at the Royal Berkshire Hospital Foundation Trust expressed a lack of confidence in the organisation’s financial management, shortly before an attempt to oust the chief executive.
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Bury pulls ‘contractual levers’ over Pennine Acute cancer waits
PERFORMANCE: NHS Bury has “enforced contractual levers” in a bid to increase the speed at which the trust refers patients in need of specialist cancer treatment, board papers state.
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Interim chief bids for permanent role at Heatherwood and Wexham Park
WORKFORCE: Philippa Slinger, the interim chief of troubled Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals Foundation Trust, has said she plans to apply for the role of permanent chief executive.
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Performance metrics problem for East Sussex Healthcare
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust was still struggling to deliver against national performance metrics in a number of areas, according to board papers.
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East Sussex on course to meet MRSA target but not C diff
PERFORMANCE: Latest board papers reveal that East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is only a couple of cases away from busting its Clostridium difficile target but remains on course for MRSA.
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£3.3m funding boost for North Bristol
FINANCE: North Bristol Trust will receive £3.3m over the next year as part of the Department’s of Health capital giveaway.
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New director of operations for Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt FT
WORKFORCE: Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Val Doyle as its new director of operations.
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Wye Valley receives additional PCT funding
FINANCE: The West Mercia Primary Care Trust cluster has provided additional funding to ensure that Wye Valley Trust meets the 18 week referral to treatment target in all specialties.
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Wye Valley receives mortality alert
PERFORMANCE: Wye Valley Trust received a mortality outlier alert from the Care Quality Commission in November.
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QIPP failure driving contract overspend at East Kent Hospitals
FINANCE: East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust was overspent on its contract with NHS Kent and Medway by £3.5m in January, largely driven by a failure to make savings in urgent care and an unplanned growth in activity.
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Northern Devon fails four hour A&E target
PERFORMANCE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust only saw 90.8 per cent of patients in accident and emergency within fours hours during January, against a target of 95 per cent.
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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells £1.5m overspent
FINANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust was overspent on its contract with commissioners by £1.5m after 10 months of the financial year.
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Medway FT overspend increases to £.07m
FINANCE: Medway NHS Foundation Trust’s overspend on its contracts with commissioners has increased but remains below £1m, according to latest board papers.
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Irish nurses key to Surrey and Sussex recruitment plan
WORKFORCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust was relying on the arrival of a group of nurses from Ireland to bring two new wards up to their full staffing compliments.
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Positive views on maternity services at East Sussex Hospitals
WORKFORCE: East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust’s midwives have been praised.
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Teen pregnancy rate falls by quarter in Brighton
PERFORMANCE: Targeted initiatives have helped reduce the rate of under 18s becoming pregnant by more than a quarter in Brighton, according to the local council.
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East Sussex application for PCT property takeover
STRUCTURE: East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has asked the NHS South of England cluster if it can take on a number of primary care trust properties.
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East Sussex plans to be FT by April 2014
STRUCTURE: East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust said it hopes to meet the government’s target date of April 2014 for being authorised as a foundation trust, according to latest board papers.
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Surrey and Sussex still at risk of deficit rising above £6.1m
FINANCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has admitted that the risk to it delivering a £6.1m deficit by the end of the financial year “remains high”.
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Morecambe Bay incident ‘gold command’ may stand down
PERFORMANCE: NHS North of England will consider “in the immediate future” whether to stand down the strategic coordinating team that mobilised in response to patient safety issues at the Morecambe Bay trust, board papers state.