News – Page 1109
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Ipswich's data on 18-weeks target to be faces assessment
PERFORMANCE: An independent assessment of data quality at Ipswich Hospital is to be carried out after concerns were raised about some patients not being recorded as on an 18 week pathway.
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Dorset Healthcare chief exec goes 'back to the floor'
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Dorset Healthcare Foundation Trust has been going “back to the floor” and shadowing staff on the front line.
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Suffolks fails to hit ambulance targets
PERFORMANCE: Ambulance handover times at hospitals in Suffolk are failing to meet national targets.
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Hunts CCGs block Hinchingbrooke A&E redesign funds
FINANCE: A plan to redesign the ‘front of house’ approach to A&E at Hinchingbrooke Hospital has failed to win support from local GPs.
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Western Sussex Hospitals purchase new infection control technology
COMMERCIAL: Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust has purchased a pioneering new infection control device, which uses hydrogen peroxide vapour.
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Suffolk employs £500-a-day consultants for up to five years
WORKFORCE: NHS Suffolk is employing a number of consultants at up to £500 a day who have been working for the organisation up to five years, its board heard.
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New Cambridgeshire and Peterborough FT chair named
WORKFORCE: A new chair is taking over at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust.
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Cambridgeshire and Luton face health visitor shortfall
WORKFORCE: The total number of health visitors in Cambridgeshire and Luton needs to double by 2015 to meet the government’s pledge to provide 4200 extra health visitors nationally.
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Herts trust reviews neonatal never event
PERFORMANCE: A case of MRSA in a neonate has sparked an internal ‘never event’ review at East and North Hertfordshire Trust.
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Cambridge University Hospitals fails two key standards
PERFORMANCE: Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust is failing two key standards - the four hour wait in A&E and the 18 week referral-to-treatment standard.
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East and North Herts turns to NHS Professionals for temp staff
WORKFORCE: NHS Professionals is expected to take over the provision of temporary staff at East and North Hertfordshire Trust at the end of the month.
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East and North Herts recording early £1m surplus
FINANCE: East and North Hertfordshire Trust had a surplus of over £1m in May, slightly ahead of target, and a financial risk rating of three which it hopes to maintain for the rest of the financial year.
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Cambridge University Hospitals makes loss
FINANCE: Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust made a loss of £1.8m in the first two months of the financial year.
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HSJ LocalBolton FT facing 'serious challenges' to financial viability - Monitor
FINANCE: Bolton Foundation Trust is facing “serious challenges to its financial viability”, according to the latest board papers of FT regulator Monitor.
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NewsCQC warns reform could hamper safeguarding
Advances in safeguarding patients that came out of the Shipman inquiry must not be lost amid NHS reforms, says a report on the management of controlled drugs.
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NewsSurvey finds 91pc of people have not heard of telehealth
A YouGov survey has revealed 91 per cent of UK adults have never heard of telehealth or telecare – despite the Department of Health’s Three Million Lives campaign to promote it.
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NewsSHIP cluster U-turns on Lucentis policy after price is slashed
A primary care trust cluster under the threat of legal action for recommending the use of an unlicensed drug has revoked the policy after the pharmaceutical company cut the price of the medicine.
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NewsBoards approve case for £2.1bn merger
The boards of three foundation trusts in London have agreed a strategic outline case for a merger that would create the largest trust in England.
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Building work starts for new £1.4m Leicester cancer unit
STRUCTURE: Building work on a new £1.4m state-of-the-art children and young people’s cancer unit at the Leicester Royal Infirmary has begun.
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Serco moves closer to taking over Suffolk community services
Serco is a step nearer running community services in Suffolk after signing a contract with the PCT.