All HSJ Local articles – Page 531
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Giant trust could emerge from London merger plan
STRUCTURE: Two London trusts have asked management consultants to assess their future configuration options, including a potential merger that would create one of the biggest providers in England.
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Northern hospitals group collaborate to cut deaths
PERFORMANCE: A group of hospitals that have worked together to reduce death rates say they achieved above-average reductions in mortality ratios last year.
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Specialist women's hospital admits midwife staffing lapse
PERFORMANCE: One of England’s two specialist women’s hospitals has admitted failing to meet recommended minimum staffing levels.
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Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals welcomes education adviser
WORKFORCE: A new advisory board chair for the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Deanery has been appointed, the trust has announced.
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Sussex Partnership faced with fallout from closure of private unit
STRUCTURE: The foundation trust is relocating patients from a local independent hospital which is set to close in September.
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East Kent Hospitals University signs Mencap charter
PERFORMANCE: The trust has signed up to Mencap’s ‘getting it right’ charter, which sets out how hospital staff should ensure that patients with a learning disability experience a high standard of care that meets their needs.
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New chief exec starts at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
WORKFORCE: A new chief executive has taken over at The Children’s Hospital, Sheffield.
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Non-executive director appointed at Nottinghamshire Healthcare
WORKFORCE: Christine Lovett has been appointed as non-executive director at Nottinghamshire Healthcare.
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Refurbished cancer screening facilities open in Surrey
STRUCTURE: A new and improved breast screening service for women in Surrey and North East Hampshire has been officially opened.
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Birmingham Women’s Hospital nurse given top union post
WORKFORCE: A nurse at the trust has become president of the union Unison.
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Dorset Healthcare wins contract for community services
COMMERCIAL: Dorset Healthcare University Foundation Trust has announced it has won the contract to provide community health services across Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole.
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Yorkshire ambulance top team reshuffle
WORKFORCE: Yorkshire Ambulance Service Trust has restructured executive posts and directorate portfolios, with the number of executive directors reduced from eight to six.
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Barnsley agrees 'way forward' on commissioning groups
STRUCTURE: GPs in Barnsley have agreed “joint working arrangements” for the commissioning transition involving two aspirant GP groups.
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South Tees spots early finance shortfall
FINANCE: South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was £700,000 behind its financial plan at the end of April, one month into the financial year.
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Nicholson says region's FT pipeline risks going backwards
STRUCTURE: Sir David Nicholson has written to the board of a strategic health authority saying “there is a real danger that by the end of 2011-12 many of these [trusts in the pipeline] will be a position where their ability to achieve FT by 2014 will have worsened”.
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Bailout fund considerably less than available reserves, SHA confirms
FINANCE: NHS London directors confirmed at a board meeting the reserves allocated to the Challenged Trust Board for 2011-12 were £95.3m, while acute trusts have debts of more than £424m.
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Twenty-two contracts signed off late in Yorkshire and the Humber
COMMERCIAL: A total of 22 provider/commissioner contracts for 2011-12 were not signed off at the beginning of the financial year in the Yorkshire and the Humber region, HSJ has learned.
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United Lincolnshire fell short on savings for 2010-11
FINANCE: United Lincolnshire Hospitals “significantly” missed a savings target last year, according to board minutes.
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University Hospitals Bristol FT gets amber/red Monitor rating
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust has achieved an amber/red governance risk rating from Monitor for 2010-11.
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CQC success for North Middlesex University Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission said the trust passed both of the standards relating to dignity and nutrition during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.