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Medway board told to focus on patient safety
PERFORMANCE: Medway Foundation Trust’s board needs “greater pace and clarity of focus” on improving the overall safety and experience of patients, according to the Keogh review.
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Keogh review exposes fears over NHS staffing levels
The NHS has little idea whether staffing levels at English hospitals are safe, Keogh review panel members have admitted.
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Eleven trusts put in 'special measures' following Keogh review
Eleven of the 14 hospital providers investigated because of high mortality ratios have been placed in “special measures”, the health secretary has announced.
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Chiefs avoid axe despite trusts facing 'special measures'
HSJ understands no hospital chief executives will face immediate removal from post as a result of Sir Bruce Keogh’s review into mortality rates.
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Keogh review highlights Dudley staffing concerns
PERFORMANCE: The Dudley Group Foundation Trust has said it is to carry out a review of staffing levels after concerns raised by the Keogh mortality review panel.
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Sherwood Forest trust told to focus on quality over Monitor requirements
PERFORMANCE: The Keogh mortality review has asked Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust to focus on the quality and safety of patient care rather than “meeting Monitor [performance]breaches in finance and governance”.
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Tameside nurse staffing and supervision of junior doctors 'inadequate'
PERFORMANCE: The Keogh review of high death rate trusts has called for urgent action to address insufficient nurse staffing, inadequate supervision of junior doctors, and insufficient access to critical care beds at Tameside Hospital.
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East Lancashire staffing 'insufficient to meet basic needs', Keogh review finds
WORKFORCE: Staffing on some of East Lancashire Hospital’s wards was “insufficient to meet the basic needs of patients”, a review of trusts with high mortality rates has concluded.
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Keogh review: Inadequate staffing and governance failures at North Cumbria
PERFORMANCE: A probe of trusts with high death rates found inadequate staffing and sustained failures to ensure adequate maintenance of estates and medical equipment at North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust.
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Resignations announced at Keogh review trust
East Lancashire Hospitals Trust today announced the resignations of its chair and deputy chief executive, minutes before the expected publication of Sir Bruce Keogh review’s report on the trust.
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Average CCG faces £10m topslice to pay for integration fund
The average clinical commissioning group will have more than £10m taken out of its budget in 2015-16 to pay for the government’s planned £3.8bn fund for the integration of health and social care, according to NHS England.
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Keogh review highlights staffing challenges at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals
WORKFORCE: Nurse staffing levels were not always sufficient across Blackpool Teaching Hospitals and in need of urgent review, particularly on elderly care wards, the Keogh review has found.
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Clinical leadership criticised at North Lincs
The Keogh review has found “lack of sufficient implementation of clinical strategies and effective clinical leadership” as one of the main areas of concern at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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Keogh review leaks point to staffing issues
Sir Bruce Keogh’s review of mortality indicators at 14 trusts has found staffing concerns at each but it also cautions against taking the indicator scores to mean the same thing as “avoidable deaths”, leaked extracts suggest.
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College urges paediatric reconfiguration
Health services for children must be radically changed or young patients could face serious safety risks, leading doctors have said.
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Cambridgeshire Community Services wins temporary reprieve
STRUCTURE Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust has won a stay of execution of at least three months after a programme to tender out up to £1bn worth of services it provides was delayed, HSJ has learned.
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Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust ‘unsafe’ staff told Keogh
Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust staff have described care provided by the trust as “unsafe”, the report by Sir Bruce Keogh’s mortality review team reveals.
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Burton in 'special measures' over staffing and engagement concerns
PERFORMANCE: Burton Hospitals Foundation Trust has been placed in “special measures”, and agreed to a series of improvement actions.
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Bringing the Keogh 14 in from the cold
The review trusts need support, not an avalanche of criticism