All HSJ Local articles – Page 453
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'Workplace champions' boost Suffolk's anti-smoking drive
SERVICES: Workplace champions are being recruited in firms in Suffolk to encourage their colleagues to give up smoking.
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Mid Essex introduces restrictions on discretionary spending
FINANCE: NHS Mid Essex has introduced restrictions on discretionary spending as it struggles to deliver QIPP savings.
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Fourteen CCGs in North of England have structure problem
STRUCTURE: NHS North of England has highlighted problems with the structure of 14 prospective clinical commissioning groups in the patch, including one in Wirral of which prominent GP commissioner James Kingsland is a member.
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Mid Yorks Hospitals' £20m forecast deficit tips Yorks & Humber trusts into red
FINANCE: Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust is forecasting a £20m deficit for 2011-12, despite receiving £14m additional support from commissioners.
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CCGs in Derbyshire 'confused' over finances and lacking 'coherent strategy'
PERFORMANCE: Derbyshire clinical commissioning groups variously lack a “coherent strategy”, show “confusion” over finances and have “low confidence” in hitting savings targets, according to the primary care trust cluster chairman.
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Kent PCTs launch phone app in bid to cut teenage pregnancies
PERFORMANCE: A mobile phone app has been launched as part of efforts to improve sexual health and reduce unplanned teenage pregnancies in Kent.
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Lincolnshire community services trust plans patient consultation over reforms
STRUCTURE: NHS chiefs in Lincolnshire have told patients that planned government reforms in the county will allow healthcare providers to be “more responsive” to their needs.
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Bath and North East Somerset under-using ISTC contract
FINANCE: NHS Bath and North East Somerset is under using its contract with independent provider UK Specialist Hospitals by £243,000.
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Buckinghamshire fails on 18 week target
PERFORMANCE: Buckinghamshire commissioners are struggling to meet the 18 week referral to treatment target.
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Oxygen cylinder explosion to be investigated by HSE
PERFORMANCE: Patients had to be evacuated from the intensive care unit at Royal United Hospital Bath after an oxygen cylinder exploded.
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Oxford trust overspends on PCT contract
FINANCE: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust over-performed by £10.9m – or 7.5 per cent – against its contract with Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust in the first six months of 2011-12.
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Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust revises down savings target
FINANCE: The north London mental health trust has revised down its CIP target for 2011-12 from £15.9m to £14.1m
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'Inadequate monitoring' of patients tranquilised at South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s risk register noted the potential for “patients coming to harm as a result of inadequate clinical monitoring after rapid tranquillisation”.
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South West London and St George's integrated to make site sell-off decision
STRUCTURE: The mental health trust published a draft business plan produced by KPMG which said a full business plan would be needed to decide whether the trust should cut down from five inpatient sites to two.
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Skills for Health to work with Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals on skill mix
WORKFORCE: The sector skills council for health will be working with the east London trust on a “systematic skill mix review, one of the key actions from the CQC action plan”.
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Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals loses nearly 10 per cent of charitable funds on stock market
FINANCE: The east London acute trust lost £300k of its £3.4m charitable fund in quarter two, minutes to the meeting of the charitable fund committee reported.
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Epsom and St Helier at pressure ulcer threshold with third of year to go
PERFORMANCE: The south London/Surrey borders trust had a 2011-12 target of only 20 grade three pressure ulcers for the year, a target it risks missing as two incidents this month took the year-to-date total to 20.
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'Outliers' mean Epsom and St Helier's private patient unit makes £409k loss
FINANCE: A finance report to the trust’s January board meeting said: “Private patient income continues its adverse trend due to outliers in the private patient unit.”
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Northumbria Healthcare FT buys PAS
COMMERCIAL: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a seven-year contract to Stalis Ltd to supply a new patient administration system.
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Departed chair at troubled London trust had raised concerns about diverting pregnant women
PERFORMANCE: Chair of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Edwin Doyle resigned within a week of raising concerns about the Care Quality Commission’s imposition of a cap on the number of births at the trust.