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HSJ Local
Chiltern CCG overspends on care
FINANCE: Chiltern clinical commissioning group was £793,000 overspent on planned and unscheduled care at the end of May.
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HSJ Local
Pay overspend at South Devon
WORKFORCE: South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust was overspent on pay by £1.7m at the end of quarter one.
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HSJ Local
Papworth misses cancer target after ‘poor’ performance
Papworth Hospital Foundation Trust failed to achieve its 62-day cancer target after a “poor” first quarter performance, according to board papers.
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HSJ Local
Western Sussex Hospitals beats FFT average score in first quarter
PERFORMANCE: Western Sussex Hospitals Trust scored an average of 53 for accident and emergence and 80 for inpatients in the “friends and family” test over the first quarter of 2013-14.
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HSJ Local
Average FFT score for Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals FT
PERFORMANCE: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals Foundation Trust scored an average of 53 for accident and emergence and 72 for inpatients in the “friends and family” test over the first quarter of 2013-14.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells above average in first FFT scores
PERFORMANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust scored an average of 57 for accident and emergency and 74 for inpatients in the “friends and family” test over the first quarter of 2013-14.
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HSJ Local
Dartford and Gravesham scores above average in FFT
PERFORMANCE: Dartford and Gravesham Trust scored an average of 71 for accident and emergency and 70 for inpatients in the “friends and family” test over the first quarter of 2013-14.
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News
HSJ Live 31.7.2013: Reaction to Lewisham and Mid Staffs announcements
Lewisham High Court decision, the future for Mid Staffs, Robert Francis QC at the CQC’s board meeting and the rest of today’s news and comments
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News
UPDATED: Wide variation in response rates for friends and family test
Significant variation between trusts in the response rates to the friends and family survey has sparked fresh concern about the test’s validity following publication of the first national results on Tuesday.
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News
Push for payment by results reform gathers pace
NHS England wants to investigate the scope for scrapping payment by results for some services as early as 2015-16, its director of strategic finance has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
East Kent chalks up worst inpatients FFT response rate
PERFORMANCE: East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust scored an average of 50 for accident and emergency and 70 for inpatients in the “friends and family” test over the first quarter of 2013-14.
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News
Dorrell: CQC failed on 'independence of action'
The chairman of the Commons health committee has revealed his concerns over the relationship between the Care Quality Commission and the parliamentary health service ombudsman.
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News
First national friends and family test scores due
A new test designed to shine the spotlight on poor care has found some “shocking and eye opening” cases of maltreatment in NHS hospitals, reports suggest.
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HSJ Local
Virgin contract provider has worst sickness absence in SE
WORKFORCE: VH Doctors Ltd had the worst average sickness absence rate for the first three months of 2013 among community providers – and any provider of NHS services – in the South East Coast region.
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HSJ Local
SE Ambulances has worst NHS absence rate in region
WORKFORCE: South East Coast Ambulance Service Foundation Trust had the worst sickness average sickness absence rate of any NHS organisation for the first three months of 2013 in the South East Coast region.
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Leader
Transparent info is still cause for complaint
Access to NHS information has become more difficult
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HSJ Local
Block contract sees extra £2.3m for South Warwickshire A&E
FINANCE: South Warwickshire clinical commissioning group has spent £2.3m by cutting the use of contract penalties for emergency care.
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HSJ Local
Above average sickness absence at Sussex Partnership
WORKFORCE: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust had the worst average sickness absence rate for the first three months of 2013 across mental health providers in the South East Coast region.
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News
Fewer inquests held for women than men
Doctors are less likely to report the death of a woman to a coroner than they are a man’s, a study has found.
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HSJ Local
CCG relies on 'verbal feedback' amid data shortage
PERFORMANCE: A clinical commissioning group has had to resort to “verbal feedback” to monitor its contract with a provider trust.