All LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST articles – Page 13
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NewsChildren's heart surgery review 'cost £8m'
A review of specialist heart surgery units for children has cost more than £8m, an MP has claimed.
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NewsChild heart op death rates released
Mortality rates for all children’s heart surgery centres in England have been released following the temporary suspension of operations in Leeds.
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NewsKeogh criticises poor data in NHS following Leeds row
NHS England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has criticised clinicians and organisations which do not gather or report quality data in the wake of the Leeds children’s heart surgery controversy.
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HSJ Local
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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NewsLeeds heart unit campaigners urge for investigation
Campaigners fighting to save the children’s heart unit at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) have called on health secretary Jeremy Hunt to launch an investigation into the suspension of surgery at the hospital, describing the decision as “NHS politics at its worst”.
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NewsKeogh defends Leeds stoppage as heart surgery cleared to resume
Children’s heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary was halted because of poor data showing unusually high death rates which were submitted by the hospital itself, the medical director of NHS England has said.
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NewsTense wait for Leeds heart op decision
Families and clinicians on both sides of the controversy over the children’s heart unit at Leeds General Infirmary face a tense wait to see whether surgery will resume at the centre as expected this week.
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HSJ LocalCongenital 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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HSJ LocalLeeds 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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CommentThe NHS needs calm heads, not panic headlines
Alarmists say the NHS is a service sliding into chaos
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HSJ Local
Yorkshire cancer doc named national cancer director
WORKFORCE: Sean Duffy, director and medical director of the Yorkshire Cancer Network, has been appointed the national clinical director for cancer.
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HSJ Local
New NED at Leeds Teaching Hospuitals
STRUCTURE:Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has appointed Caroline Johnstone to the trust board as a new non executive director
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Blogs
Patients vs the business case
The NHS is not subject to local democratic accountability. If you want to have more say in what happens to your local hospital maybe you should advocate a transfer to local government
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HSJ Local
Leeds campaigners win heart surgery case
STRUCTURE: Campaigners have won a high court challenge over the decision to remove children’s heart surgery services from Leeds.
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HSJ Local
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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HSJ Local
£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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HSJ Local
Leeds Hospitals appoints COO and medical and nursing directors
WORKFORCE: Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has made three key board appointments.
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HSJ Local
Leeds children’s heart surgery challenge to be heard next week
STRUCTURE: A challenge to the commissioning decision which would see the Leeds children’s heart surgery unit closed is due to be heard in the High Court next week.
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HSJ Local
North of England chair joins Yorkshire and Humber LETB
STRUCTURE: Kathryn Riddle, chair of Yorkshire and the Humber SHA and North of England SHA cluster, has become chair of the Yorkshire and the Humber LETB.