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Increase in safeguarding demand at South Tees
PERFORMANCE: South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust is having to deal with more children under safeguarding procedures – with rates of children with child protection plans in some areas being considerably higher than the national average.
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Burnham issues A&E warning after tent erected outside hospital
The NHS has missed its national accident and emergency target every week for six months, Labour has warned.
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South Tees warns of A&E target breach risk
PERFORMANCE: South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust could miss the A&E four hour target for quarter four, the board has been warned.
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Northumbria seeking 50 new apprentices
WORKFORCE: Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust is to recruit 50 new apprentices in the next few months and hopes to expand the number of apprentives it employs to 300 over the next two years.
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Savile affair disrupts Newcastle patient experience checks
PERFORMANCE: The Jimmy Savile affair and the need for a protocol for visits to wards has affected how a working group assessing patient experience in Newcastle’s hospitals has worked.
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Tees spinal expert becomes NHS England tsar
WORKFORCE: A spinal expert from The James Cook University Hospital has been appointed to the NHS Commissioning Board as the national clinical director for spinal disorders.
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Doncaster FT aiming for £20m savings
FINANCE: Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust is aiming to make savings of £20m in the new financial year – equivalent to 6 per cent of its turnover.
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South Tees expects £1m surplus
FINANCE: A year end surplus of £1m is still expected by South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust – but it is having to use contingency funds to deliver it.
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QVH nursing director made NICE fellow
WORKFORCE: Amanda Parker, director of nursing, Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been made a NICE Fellow for 2013-16.
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CMO opens new clinical research centre at UHSM
CLINICAL RESEARCH: England’s Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies has opened a new £2.45 million clinical research centre at University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust.
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Green recognition for UHSM
PERFORMANCE: University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust remains one of the greenest nationally, according to the Environment Agency.
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North Bristol trust to appoint chief executive
STRUCTURE: North Bristol NHS Trust is set to recruit a new chief executive. The outcome of the Bristol Acute Services Review found that “any organisational change involving integration between United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust and North Bristol NHS Trust would be premature at this time.”
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Royal Surrey medic wins NICE scholarship
WORKFORCE: Dr Matthew Rogers a year-five specialty trainee in haematology has been awarded a scholarship by the National Insitutute for Health and Care Excellence.
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Newcastle ahead of plan in Jan
FINANCE: Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust had made a surplus of £23.3m at the end of January – £13.7m ahead of plan.
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Software and staffing pressure cause problems for Warrington Out of Hours service
PERFORMANCE: Implementation of a new software system and staffing pressures are causing problems with the delivery of out of hours services for Bridgewater Community Healthcare Trust.
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HSJ Live 3.4.2013: Monitor on new competition regulations
NHS misses A&E targets for dealing with patients within four hours and the rest of today’s news
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Congenital Cardiac Association questions Leeds service closure
PERFORMANCE: The British Congenital Cardiac Association has criticised the release of “raw” and “unverified” data about outcomes from children’s heart surgery at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust.
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Leeds child heart surgery suspended after NHS England intervention
A review into children’s congenital heart surgery at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust is underway after NHS England intervened to ask the trust to suspend services.
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HSJ Live: First working day of the post-PCT world
All the latest news on the day that local area teams and clinical commissioning groups officially take over from strategic health authorities and primary care trusts.
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Buckinghamshire Healthcare FT application delayed three months amid mortality concerns
STRUCTURE: Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust’s bid for foundation status has been put back three months after it was identified as an outlier on mortality rates.