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Barnsley installs new CT scanner funded by local residents
SERVICES: A new CT scanner has been installed at Barnsley Hospital – thanks to the generosity of a local couple who left a legacy of £600,000. Mary Tasker died in 2011 and her husband, local photographer Ted, had died in 1989.
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Mid Yorks cuts deficit prediction to £24m
FINANCE: The projected deficit at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust has been cut to £23.9m from £26m, the trust board has been told.
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Mid Yorkshire receives 181 MARS applications
WORKFORCE: 181 members of staff at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust have applied for voluntary redundancy under the MARS2 scheme.
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Leeds & York redesign runs into complications
STRUCTURE: A major redesign of services which treats mental health patients in the community rather than admitting them to hospital has run into some problems.
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Sheffield trust 'proactively managing' staff with high absence
WORKFORCE: Staff with the highest level of sickness absence are being ‘pro-actively’ managed at Sheffield Health and Social Care Foundation Trust – leading to a number of dismissals.
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South West Yorkshire trust opens new ward
STRUCTURE: A new ward has opened as part of a £12m redevelopment of a mental health secure unit in Wakefield. The new 15-bed Johnson ward is part of Newton Lodge, a medium secure unit which serves the wider Yorkshire and Humber area as well as people from the South West ...
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Yorkshire Ambulance sees 12 per cent demand growth
PERFORMANCE: A 12 per cent increase in demand on the previous month meant Yorkshire Ambulance Service struggled with ‘red’ responses in December.
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Yorkshire lets ten year GP practice contract
FINANCE: A ten-year contract to provide medical services at Thornton and Denholme Medical Practice has been awarded to a group of Shipley-based doctors who are already providing temporary services at the surgery.
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Bradford drops health and wellbeing centre plan
STRUCTURE: Plans to develop a health and wellbeing centre in the Keighley area of Bradford have been dropped in favour of concentrating on an integrated care model.
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Sheffield Children’s Hospital struggles with diagnostic target
PERFRORMANCE: Sheffield Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust failed to carry out diagnostic tests on 30 patients within six weeks in January – meaning that it did not meet the 99 per cent target.
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Board in place for Hillingdon Healthwatch
STRUCTURE: A chair and board have been appointed to Healthwatch Hillingdon, which has a start date of 1 April 2013.
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Hull and East Yorks forecasts £3.5m surplus
FINANCE: Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust is forecasting a surplus of £3.5m this financial year - £1.3m behind its original plans.
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Leeds Hospitals short of emergency registrars
PERFORMANCE: A shortage of emergency medicine specialty registrars is one of the factors in poor A&E performance at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust. A report to the trust board said that there was a 60 per cent vacancy rate for these posts across the trust. Consultants are working nights, locum doctors ...
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£5m risk identified by Leeds Hospitals
FINANCE: Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has £5m of income at risk in the last few weeks of this financial year.
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A&E wait problems at Airedale FT
PERFORMANCE: Airedale Foundation Trust could be found in significant breach of its authorisation after it failed to meet the 95 per cent performance target for treating A&E patients in the third quarter, coming in at 94.6 per cent.
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Uphill battle to meet A&E targets at Barnsley Hospital
PERFORMANCE: Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust will only achieve the 95 per cent target for treating patients within four hours at A&E if it can achieve 98 per cent in the last two months of the year, the trust board heard.
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Barnsley FT plans to cut mortality rates
PERFORMANCE: Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust is hoping to reduce its mortality rates by this autumn. A package of work – including looking at coding, reviewing never events, and an external scrutiny of surgical site infections – is ongoing. The trust also has a project on early warning systems and recognising ...
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Twenty cancer wait breaches at Mid Yorks
PERFORMANCE: Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust has had 20 breaches of the 62 day cancer referral to treatment target in January.
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Bradford Hospitals introduced new home help
STRUCTURE: Patients who are discharged after a stay at Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust are to get extra help at home.
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Calderdale and Huddersfield seeks to speed fracture ops
PERFORMANCE: Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust is taing action to improve its performance on fractured neck of femur operations to ensure patients get into theatre quickly. The trust has a target of treating 85 per cent of patients within 36 hours but its performance this year is only 66 per ...