All MAIDSTONE AND TUNBRIDGE WELLS NHS TRUST articles – Page 9
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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells scores well on patient noise levels
PERFORMANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing above average for noise in the inpatient survey.
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Patients unhappy with waits at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
PERFORMANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing below average for waiting in the inpatient survey.
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Kent acute trusts overpaid staff by £3m
FINANCE: Nurses and doctors at all four trusts in Kent have been overpaid by almost £3m since 2007, an investigation has revealed.
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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells 'grossly' over activity
FINANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust is ‘grossly’ overperforming on contracts with its main commissioners with a £26m overspend to the end of month 11. The vast majority of this is with West Kent PCT.
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Trust loses F1 surgical trainees following concerns
WORKFORCE: A training issue has left a major hospital without any general surgical foundation one year doctors for four months.
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Mixed sex accommodation breach peak in Kent and Medway
PERFORMANCE: Kent and Medway had 35 breaches of the mixed sex accommodation rules in January – with 20 of these at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust.
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Trust faces £1.5m fine for small C Difficile breach
PERFORMANCE: A trust which has had just one case of clostridium difficile cross infection this year faces a penalty of at least £1.5m for exceeding its target number of cases by three.
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Maidstone and Tunbridge CIPs ‘under-delivering’
FINANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is at significant risk of failing to hit its savings target for cost improvement plans, according to board papers.
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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells hit by hike in mixed sex breaches
PERFORMANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust breached the Department of Health’s regulations for mixed sex accommodation in January.
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NHS TDA reappoints Maidstone chair
WORKFORCE: The NHS Trust Development Authority has re-appointed Tony Jones as chair of the trust for the next four years.
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New cardiology service first in Kent
STRUCTURE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust launched an EPS (electrophysiological studies and ablation) service this month.
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New unit will ‘complement and support A&E’
STRUCTURE: A new Urgent Medical and Ambulatory Unit at Maidstone Hospital will “support and enhance” services provided in accident and emergency, rather than replace them, say doctors.
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Improvement on mixed sex breaches for MTW
PERFORMANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust recorded no breaches of the Department of Health’s rules on mixed sex accommodation during August, according to latest data.
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All staff offered redundancy by Kent trust
WORKFORCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust has taken the drastic step of offering all its staff voluntary redundancy as it attempts to save £15m to £20m.
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Trust criticised over new Pembury bus deal
FINANCE: A Kent NHS trust has come under fire for reneging on a deal to fund buses bringing patients to its new hospital, saying it needed the money for frontline services.
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MTW on Circle’s list of ‘growth opportunities’
STRUCTURE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has been named as one of 32 trusts viewed by private provider Circle as constituting an “NHS growth opportunity” totalling more than £8bn.
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Current West Kent overspend is ‘not sustainable’
FINANCE: Commissioners in West Kent have already been forced to dip into contingency reserves due to excess activity by their acute providers, board papers reveal.
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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.