All HSJ Local articles – Page 493
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CQC tells James Paget to 'urgently' improve nutrition
PERFORMANCE: James Paget University Hospitals Foundation Trust must make “urgent improvements” to how it meets the nutritional needs of older patients after failing to demonstrate improvements, the Care Quality Commission has demanded.
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Birmingham Women's loses chair and chief exec
WORKFORCE: The chief executive and acting chair of Birmingham Women’s Hospital Foundation Trust have left within a week of each other.
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Cornwall Partnership wants to be single learning disabilities provider
STRUCTURE: Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust is planning to acquire children and adolescent mental health services, develop a perinatal service and become a single provider for learning disability services in Cornwall.
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SHA sounds alarm bells about NHS Cumbria’s QIPP progress
FINANCE: The primary care trust has been asked to provide a “detailed recovery plan” explaining when it will get its QIPP (quality, innovation, productivity and prevention) savings back on track, after they were rated “red” by NHS North West.
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NHS North cluster names senior executive directors
WORKFORCE: The senior executive team has been appointed for the NHS North cluster, made up of NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, North West and North East.
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NHS Midlands and East cluster names senior executive directors
WORKFORCE: The senior executive team has been appointed for the NHS Midlands and the East cluster, made up of NHS East of England, West Midlands and East Midlands.
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John Lawlor confirmed as Airedale, Bradford and Leeds PCT cluster chief
Airedale, Bradford and Leeds PCT
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Delayed transfers of care rise in Coventry and Warwickshire
PERFORMANCE: An action plan to tackle rising rates of delayed transfers of care has been agreed in Warwickshire.
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West Midlands trauma care review due to complete in February
STRUCTURE: West Midlands Specialised Commissioning is expecting to complete a review of trauma care in the region by February 2012.
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Notts County abandons extended hours aim
PERFORMANCE: NHS Nottinghamshire County has given up on a target to offer all patients access to GP practices with extended hours.
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Drop in GP referrals loses Nottingham Hospitals half a million pounds
FINANCE: A significant drop in GP referrals has led to a 5 per cent drop in new outpatient attendances at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust.
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GPs failing to convey 'urgency' to suspected cancer patients
PERFORMANCE: Suspected breast cancer patients are missing hospital appointments because GPs are failing to inform them how urgently their symptoms need to be treated.
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Reforms linked to staff sickness at Notts County PCT
WORKFORCE: NHS Nottinghamshire County is experiencing an increase in staff sickness levels related to organisational change.
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Warwickshire stroke services behind target
PERFORMANCE: Stroke services in Warwickshire are behind target, with George Eliot Hospital and South Warwickshire Foundation Trust both significantly underperforming.
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NHS North West brings forward health visitor recruitment plans
WORKFORCE: The strategic health authority has increased the number of health visitor training posts it will need to meet the government’s recruitment drive from 603 to 715, after the Department of Health raised questions about its original plan.
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Poor prescribing at root of C difficile problems in Tameside and Glossop
PERFORMANCE: An analysis of the Tameside and Glossop area’s high rate of C difficile infection in the first three months of 2011-12 has found that the majority of cases were avoidable, and due to inappropriate prescribing.
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Board report indicates problem with new A&E quality measure
PERFORMANCE: A south London trust has highlighted a problem with one of the A&E activity measures.
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Leicester GPs refuse to carry out health checks
PERFORMANCE: Only 33 out of 50 GP practices have signed up to the NHS Health Checks programme in West Leicester CCG.
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NHS London raises bar for non-FTs with gloomy tariff assumptions
FINANCE: NHS London has ordered non-FTs to plan for a 1.5 per cent deflation in the tariff for the next five years in their applications for FT status.
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University Hospitals Leicester asked for assurance on quality
PERFORMANCE: NHS Leicester City has written to University Hospitals of Leicester Trust after it failed to deliver on agreed improvement plans on a number of patient safety areas.