All MAIDSTONE AND TUNBRIDGE WELLS NHS TRUST articles – Page 10
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HSJ Local
Kent commissioners use £10m reserves to maintain surplus
FINANCE: The primary care trust cluster and clinical commissioning groups in Kent and Medway are turning to contingencies to maintain a surplus.
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NewsRevealed: highest-paid interim NHS chiefs on over £1k per day
The going rates for the health service’s most highly paid interim executives have been revealed as a result of a Treasury review of how public sector executives are employed.
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HSJ LocalNorth Kent trusts look to London to boost market share
Two Kent trusts will seek to expand their market share in surrounding health economies, including becoming the main acute provider for a London borough, if their merger bid is successful.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells sells old hospital site
COMMERCIAL: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has sold off its old Kent and Sussex Hospital site to a property developer.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells £1.5m overspent
FINANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust was overspent on its contract with commissioners by £1.5m after 10 months of the financial year.
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HSJ Local
New Kent hospital runs into trouble with CQC
PERFORMANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust said it had made immediate changes to improve patient care at its new hospital at Pembury after a routine inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsGovernment estimates central bail-out of seven trusts will cost £1.5bn
The government has estimated that bailing out hospital trusts with large PFI repayments could cost £1.5bn.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge improves on mixed sex performance
PERFORMANCE: Maidstone And Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust’s performance on mixed sex breaches improved last month.
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Comment'Choosing the comfortable path is a route towards trouble'
NHS trust boards are more on the ball than they used to be, but there is much more to be done when risk management is preferred to risk prevention, writes Nigel Edwards.
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News
Revealed: the six trusts that need DH support with their PFI
Six hospital trusts have been identified as needing Department of Health cash support with their private finance initiative payments in order to make foundation trust status, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
New hospital gives instant mixed sex improvement for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
PERFORMANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells’ performance on mixed sex breaches improved dramatically last month, following the opening of its new, all singe room hospital at Pembury.
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HSJ Local
Delayed discharges double at Medway FT
PERFORMANCE: Delayed discharges from Medway Foundation Trust more than doubled to 4.8 per cent in September from 2 per cent in August, against a target of 3.5 per cent.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells loses member of finance team
WORKFORCE: Mick Bull, deputy finance director, is being seconded to Dartford and Gravesham Trust for a year as director of finance.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells confident of breakeven
FINANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust is still forecasting breakeven for the financial year, despite the added costs of its new PFI hospital at Pembury.
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HSJ Local
Praise for Maidstone and Tunbridge on A&E waits
PERFORMANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has been commended for “strong” performance against the four hour waiting target for accident and emergency.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge slips on mixed sex performance
PERFORMANCE: The trust this month recorded 190 breaches of the Department of Health’s guidelines on mixed sex accommodation.
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HSJ Local
New hospital opens as old one closes in West Kent
STRUCTURE: The new Tunbridge Wells Hospital was fully opened to patients on 21 September.
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HSJ Local
New birth centre operational at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
STRUCTURE: The first baby has been born at a new midwife led birth centre in Maidstone, according to a press release from Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.
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CommentReconfiguration plans grow in confidence in the South East
With reconfiguration no longer a dirty word following the approval of plans for Chase Farm Hospital, other trusts may be more confident in getting service changes through while a Whitehall wind is seemingly behind them.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge improves on mixed sex breaches
PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust this month recorded 163 breaches of the Department of Health’s guidelines on mixed sex accommodation.