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Royal College voices concerns over UK paediatric services
Hospital care for sick children at weekends and in evenings needs to be better organised to ensure senior staff are available when needed, according to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
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Basildon and Thurrock needs £14m savings to break even in 2013-14
FINANCE: Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust needs to make savings of over five per cent - or around £14m - to break even in 2013-14.
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Internal review to be carried out of Basildon cardiothoracic centre
STRUCTURE: An internal review is to be carried out into the cardiothoracic centre at Basildon Hospital, looking at whether it has achieved its original aims and how it might develop in the future.
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Regulator should 'make allowances' for aspirant community FTs, says DH review author
Foundation trust regulator Monitor should “make allowances” for aspirant community foundation trusts and consider adjusting its assessment framework accordingly, according to the author of a confidential review the sector’s future commissioned by the Department of Health.
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Sumara appointed Bolton chief as trust reports 'encouraging' coding review findings
PERFORMANCE: Antony Sumara has been appointed as interim chief executive at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust. In a statement trust chair David Wakefield said that the organisation had received “encouraging interim findings from an independent review into sepsis recording at the trust.
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West Herts trust reports £500,000 deficit
FINANCE: West Hertfordshire Hospitals had a deficit of £0.5m at the end of February – but was hoping to breakeven at the end of the year.
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GPs express online records concern
Giving patients online access to their health records will lead to doctors having to explain themselves more often, according to a survey by the Medical Protection Society.
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Leeds surgery halt meant 10 children transferred
Ten sick children had to be transferred up to 120 miles from a Leeds paediatric heart unit while surgery was suspended, it has emerged.
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Ipswich trust forecasts breakeven
FINANCE: Ipswich Hospital is predicting a breakeven position for 2012-13 after making a surplus of £1.4m in February.
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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals recruits new clincial research director
CLINICAL RESEARCH: Dr Peter Sneddon is to become the director of clinical research at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust and the University of Sheffield next month.
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North West 111 launch beset by 'serious problems', says Eastern Cheshire CCG chief
STRUCTURE: The March launch of the NHS 111 service for the North West has been beset by “a range of serious problems”, according to Jerry Hawker chief officer of NHS Eastern Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group.
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Colchester complains about delay in receiving mortality review information
PERFORMANCE: One of the 14 trusts being investigated because of concern triggered by mortality indicators has complained about the delay in it receiving formal information about the investigation process.
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East Kent hospitals declares 'major incident' due to high activity
PERFORMANCE: East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust has been forced to declare an internal major incident due to high emergency demand.
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Norfolk Community Trust reports 25 serious incidents in February
PERFORMANCE: 21 out of 25 serious incidents reported to Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust in February were grade three pressure ulcers, the March board meeting heard.
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Trauma and orthopaedics drive Ipswich waiting list failure
PERFORMANCE: Ipswich Hospital failed the 18 week referral to treatment target for elective in patients in February with performance at 88.3 per cent overall, largely due to trauma and orthopaedics only delivering at 75.9 per cent.
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Ipswich trust enters partnership to cut carbon
COMMERCIAL Ipswich Hospital has become the first hospital in the UK to enter into a partnership to install a biofuel electricity generator.
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Five 52-week waiters for Sheffield Children's
PERFORMANCE: Five patients have been waiting more than a year for treatment at Sheffield Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust.
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Heatherwood and Wexham Park appoints new NEDs
WORKFORCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals Foundation Trust appointed two new non-executive directors at the beginning of March.
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East and North Herts gets new linear accelerators
COMMERCIAL: Two of the linear accelerators at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre are being replaced by state of the art machines at a cost of £3.7m. The new equipment is able to deliver intensity modulated radiation therapy which can provide more accurate treatment and reducing side-effects.
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New high observation bay for Scarborough Hospital
STRUCTURE: Patients at Scarborough Hospital are to benefit from a high observation bay designed for patients who need closer monitoring after surgery or who are ‘stepping down’ from more intensive care, the trust has reported.