News – Page 1083

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Solent Trust overperforms on income

2012-09-07T18:20:00Z

FINANCE: Solent Trust delivered a £5,000 surplus in June, keeping in line with its financial plan of £11,000 in the black for the year.

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Pensioner jailed over chief executive harassment

2012-09-07T18:19:00Z

A 74-year-old woman who harassed a hospital chief executive and turned up at a doctor’s house with a meat hammer has been jailed for four weeks.

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Guy's and St Thomas' tightens procedure for 'ethical' donations

2012-09-07T18:14:00Z

STRUCTURE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust has drawn up a memorandum of understanding “regulating the types of contributions it was appropriate to accept or refuse on proper ethical grounds, as a result of fundraising across King’s Health Partners.”

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Epsom and St Helier misses emergency readmission target

2012-09-07T18:13:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust is breaching the emergency readmission to A&E target, with a rate of 7.3 per cent againt an organisational target of 5.8 per cent.

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Epsom and St Helier finance ahead of plan

2012-09-07T18:12:00Z

FINANCE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust is ahead on its financial plan by £429,000, its July finance report reveals, but the trust is still predicting a year-end deficit of £19.4m.

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Proposal to centralise pathology at St George's

2012-09-07T18:11:00Z

STRUCTURE: The London review of pathology services has proposed centralising pathology in south west London at St George’s Hospital.

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Heatherwood and Wexham Park finances off target

2012-09-07T18:06:00Z

FINANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust reported an adverse financial position of £351,000 in the year to June.

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Leicester Hospitals defends high number of complaints

2012-09-07T18:05:00Z

PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of Leicester has received the highest number of complaints of all trusts in the East Midlands.

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Guy's and St Thomas' has nursing shortfall of 111

2012-09-07T18:03:00Z

WORKFORCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust has a shortfall of 111 nurses, a report reveals

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Fifteen nurse hours per bed day at Shelford Group trusts

2012-09-07T18:03:00Z

WORKFORCE: Research carried for the Shelford Group, which represents England’s most powerful teaching hospitals, shows each patient bed day accounts for an average of 15 nurse hours.

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Guy's and St Thomas' A&E software fails

2012-09-07T18:03:00Z

PEFORMANCE: Symphony, the IT system used in Guy’s and St Thomas’ A&E, stopped sending follow-up letters to GPs, board papers reveal.

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A&E target missed at Guy's and St Thomas'

2012-09-07T18:02:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust has missed its A&E target for quarter one of this financial year.

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Guy's and St Thomas's planning on £13m in Project Diamond funding

2012-09-07T18:02:00Z

FINANCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust is planning on receiving £13m in Project Diamond funding, the top-up payment NHS London makes to trusts that do a lot of specialist work.

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Competition from the US shrinks private paediatric work at Guy's

2012-09-07T18:01:00Z

COMMERCIAL: Guy’s and St Thomas’s Foundation Trust has downgraded its earnings forecast for work at its Evelina Children’s Hospital, after losing business to US providers.

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North East NHS 111 go live delayed

2012-09-07T18:01:00Z

STRUCTURE: The first go live date for NHS 111 has been delayed due to a lack of local GP engagement and outstanding contractual issues with the provider, HSJ has learned.

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OUH named as worst performer in the south on A&E

2012-09-07T18:01:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Oxford University Hospitals Trust was the worst performer on accident and emergency in the south of England in quarter one of 2012-13.

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George Eliot death rates remain high

2012-09-07T18:00:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Latest death rate figures have highlighted ongoing problems at George Eliot Hospital Trust, and suggest that a spike in mortality rates elsewhere in Warwickshire earlier this year was short-lived.

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Interserve gains Leicestershire preferred bidder status

2012-09-07T17:57:00Z

COMMERCIAL: Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland cluster of PCTs have appointed Interserve as the preferred bidder for a major NHS estates contract.

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Lancashire Care appoints new NEDs

2012-09-07T17:53:00Z

WORKFORCE: The foundation trust has appointed two new non-executive directors to replace Belinda Weir, who resigned earlier this year, and outgoing post-holder Sam Jones.

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New finance director for St George's Healthcare Trust

2012-09-07T17:51:00Z

WORKFORCE: St George’s Healthcare Trust has appointed Steven Bolam as it new director of finance, performance and informatics.