Latest news – Page 1418
-
HSJ Local
Tower Hamlets beats surplus target despite acute overspend
FINANCE: NHS Tower Hamlets is forecasting an end of year surplus of £6.97m for 2010-11, despite a projected acute commissioning overspend of £6m.
-
HSJ Local
Monitor holds up TCS transfer at NHS Wiltshire
STRUCTURE: The transfer of NHS Wiltshire’s provider arm to Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust has been held up as the regulator Monitor cannot meet the April 1 deadline.
-
HSJ Local
West Essex PCT struggling to break even
FINANCE: West Essex PCT has overpent by £600,000 so far this financial year, casting doubt on its ability to break even.
-
HSJ Local
Bradford FT concern about community service savings
STRUCTURE: Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has expressed concern that not enough savings are being made in the community services that it is due to take over.
-
HSJ Local
Bradford plans to protect productivity next winter
PERFORMANCE: Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust is developing a “12 month demand management capacity plan” with the intention of avoiding having to cancel elective surgery next winter.
-
HSJ Local
East London cluster plans set out
STRUCTURE: Governance arrangements have been set out for the NHS City and East London primary care trust cluster.
-
HSJ Local
Sussex partnership chief exec treated at nearby acute
WORKFORCE: Temporary management changes are taking place at the top of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust due to illness.
-
HSJ Local
Success for eating disorder service at Sussex Partnership FT
PERFORMANCE: A community eating disorder service has reduced admissions and facilitated early discharge in West Sussex.
-
HSJ Local
Review backs closure of A&E at North Tees and Hartlepool FT
STRUCTURE: The accident and emergency department at University Hospital of Hartlepool should close on safety grounds, an independent review has concluded.
-
HSJ Local
Nottingham University Hospitals pilots 'hourly checks' on patients
WORKFORCE: Trusts in the East Midlands are importing a US nursing model involving hourly checks on patients, in response to last month’s critical health service ombudsman report on care of older patients.
-
HSJ Local
CQC warns East Sussex Hospitals over staffing levels
WORKFORCE: The Care Quality Commission has given East Sussex Hospitals Trust until the end of the month to improve staffing levels.
-
HSJ Local
Whipps Cross chief exec steps down to work on merger plan
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust has announced she is to step down.
-
HSJ Local
Hull trust received mortality review
PERFORMANCE: An independent review of a high hospital-wide mortality rate at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust has recommended a series of improvement actions.
-
HSJ Local
Dorset community services transfer at risk
STRUCTURE: NHS Dorset is reporting that it may lack the capacity and resources to transform its community services.
-
NewsPublic sector workers unhappy, survey reveals
More than half of public sector workers would consider taking industrial action, according to a study released as activists prepare for an anti-cuts protest in London.
-
NewsNHS 'must publish performance data'
The NHS should undergo a culture change and improve services to patients by publishing performance data, according to a report.
-
NewsCost of locum doctors expected to rise
The cost of locum doctors in the Scottish NHS has almost doubled over the past four years to more than £36m, according to Scottish government figures.
-
HSJ Local
New finance director for South West London and St Georges
WORKFORCE: Mike Naylor has been appointed director of finance and deputy chief executive at South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust.
-
HSJ Local
New Worcestershire provider hires chief executive
WORKFORCE: The new community provider organisation in Worcestershire has hired a chief executive from Dudley PCT.
-
NewsPublic health transition 'road map' underway
A “mapping exercise” is underway to indicate how the public health workforce will be moved over to local authorities, the Department of Health has said.