All HSJ Local articles – Page 468
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Coventry and Warwickshire deficit hits £8.5m
FINANCE: University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust has run up a deficit of more than £8.5m, with cost improvement plan savings falling behind schedule.
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Pennine Care launches mental health service for veterans
COMMERCIAL: The foundation trust has launched a new service offering mental health support for ex-military personnel in the North West, as part of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme.
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Bradford Teaching Hospitals sees staff assault drop
WORKFORCE: Assaults on Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust staff - at its Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke’s Hospitals sits - fell from 129 in 2009-10 to 94 in 2010-11.
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Durham & Darlington FT launches community palliative care
STRUCTURE: County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust is supporting a community palliative care response team with St Teresa’s Hospice and Marie Curie Cancer Care.
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Guy's breaches excess bed days target for all but one month in 2011-12 so far
PERFORMANCE: The south London acute FT has seen breacehs of its excess bed day target each month this financial year, except May.
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GSTT see steady rise in A&E attendances over past three years
PERFORMANCE: The latest figures from the south London acute show higher numbers of attendances daily this year than last year, for each of the three calendar quarters.
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Amber-red rating for Coventry and Warwickshire over C difficile and waiting times
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust has given itself an amber-red performance rating after falling short on seven Monitor standards.
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Leeds Hospitals issued Facebook warnings
WORKFORCE: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has warned nine staff over use of social networking sites since April 2010.
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Sheffield Hospitals chief elected chair of NHS Employers policy board
STRUCTURE: NHS Employers has announced Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Sir Andrew Cash as the new chair of its policy board.
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Bury ‘patients champion’ charged with £60,000 fraud
WORKFORCE: A “patients champion” and former chair of Bury’s local involvement network has been charged with committing £60,000 of VAT fraud, in the course of half a decade of paid consultancy work for the NHS.
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Ashford and St Peter’s bid for Epsom confirmed
STRUCTURE: The board in charge of demerging Epsom and St Helier hospitals to ensure they achieve foundation trust status has confirmed it has received a bid from Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital FT to merge with Epsom.
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Overnight power loss at Worthing Hospital
PERFORMANCE: Worthing Hospital lost its mains power supply for more than 12 hours last week.
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St George's puts in formal bid for St Helier
STRUCTURE: The south London acute trust was the only bidder to make a formal approach to Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust to run St Helier Hospital.
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NHS Surrey reverses IVF funding ban
FINANCE: NHS Surrey has announced it is to reinstate IVF treatment from April 2012.
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Doncaster and Bassetlaw says 2,000 A&E admissions down to road collisions
PERFORMANCE: Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust has announced more than 2,000 admissions to its A&E and minor injuries unit between April and September 2011 were due to road traffic collissions, in support of a campaign.
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Lewisham Healthcare above average for claims
PERFORMANCE: The south London trust’s number of in-year negligence claims per 10,000 bed days was 2.52 against a national mean of 1.37.
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Whittington plans to split benefits of contract 50:50 with GPs
STRUCTURE: The Whittington Health Trust plans to split the benefits of a block contract scheme 50:50 with local GP commissioners, according to its latest strategy document.
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Sherwood Forest slips on capital spend
FINANCE: Slippage on capital expenditure due to the delay on the renal scheme remains outside of the 25 per cent tolerance level that Monitor applies to capital spend variances.
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Surrey and Sussex Healthcare worst offender for A&E waits
PERFORMANCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare recorded the worst performance during the last quarter for patients waiting more than four hours to be admitted from accident and emergency.
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Torbay trust launches first integrated health and social care IT system
COMMERCIAL: England’s first integrated health and social care patient record system has been procured in a £3.8m deal that managers hope will make it easier to join up services.