All MAIDSTONE AND TUNBRIDGE WELLS NHS TRUST articles – Page 12
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'GPs run the risk of alienating themselves from their colleagues'
As the BMA gears up for a crisis meeting to debate the Health Bill, the chair of its consultant and specialists committee voices his fears of a huge split between members - and a ‘seething cauldron’ of competing providers in the future.
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Maidstone and Tunbridge nearing limits for infection control
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s infection report for January shows it is currently on course to hit its targets for MRSA cases but behind for Clostridium difficile.
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Council planning change could slash hospital site value
A hospital trust is facing a potential £8m shortfall in funding because of changes in local planning policies and land values.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells looks to Portugal for nurses
WORKFORCE: The Kent trust has successfully sourced new nursing recruits from Portugal and Ireland.
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'We all know what’s wrong with the NHS'
There are too many hospitals swallowing up too much money for too little return. Which is fine until you try to close or downsize one, and all hell breaks loose.
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Lansley confirms Maidstone to close maternity unit
Controversial plans to centralise maternity and children’s services in West Kent have been given the go-ahead by health secretary Andrew Lansley.
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Rose Gibb lawsuit bill could pass £250,000
The government’s legal bill to defend the decision to dismiss Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells chief executive Rose Gibb is likely to match the £265,000 she has been awarded, HSJ understands.
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Hospital trusts gain under new payment by results tariff
Hospital trusts could save “real money” as a knock-on effect of meeting new tariff standards for hip fracture surgery, according to a leading clinician.
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Trusts putting patients' lives at risk, claims AvMA
NHS hospitals are putting lives at risk by failing to comply with key alerts on patient safety, a report has said.
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Cost of axing hospital redesigns must be counted
The financial consequences of halting proposed service changes should be taken into account, the Independent Reconfiguration Panel has said.
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Conservative who campaigned to stop maternity service move wins seat
Helen Grant has won Maidstone & the Weald for the Conservatives with a majority of nearly 6,000.
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Two trusts registered with conditions
Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust and Milton Keynes Hospital Foundation Trust have been told their registration with the Care Quality Commission is conditional on them improving the safety and quality of their care.
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Trust questioned closely in court over Rose Gibb payout
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust’s decision not to pay its former chief executive an agreed payoff came under intense scrutiny today.
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Rose Gibb returns to court to battle for pay-off
Rose Gibb returns to the courts today in her battle to get a £175,000 pay-off - two and a half years after she left her job as chief executive at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust.
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Kent maternity plans referred to health secretary
Kent’s overview and scrutiny committee has referred to the health secretary Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust’s plans to develop a midwifery led birth unit at Maidstone Hospital before consultant led maternity services transfer to the new Pembury Hospital next year, because of “public concern”.
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Data security lapses prompt pledges from PCTs
Two primary care trusts have been rapped for data security breakdowns, bringing the total number of NHS organisations in trouble over such lapses to three already this month.
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Rose Gibb wins full right to appeal compensation claim
Rose Gibb has won the right to a full appeal hearing on her claim for compensation against her former employer, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust.
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Maidstone pledges crackdown after data loss
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust has pledged to tighten security procedures after the theft of three laptops containing patient data.
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Rose Gibb wins right to appeal judgement on Maidstone pay-out
Former Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust chief executive Rose Gibb has won the right to continue her battle for a severance package.
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NHS regulators need a new outlook after Mid Staffs scandal
Monitor executive chair Bill Moyes believes the deaths at Mid Staffordshire must lead to system wide change for how quality is regulated - but the scandal should not be allowed to compromise the foundation model, he tells Dave West