News – Page 1178
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Liverpool Community Health misses diagnostics target by huge margin
PERFORMANCE: Nearly 18 per cent of patients awaiting diagnostic tests from Liverpool Community Health Trust in June had been on its waiting list for more than six weeks, against a national target that fewer than 1 per cent of patients should wait that long.
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St George's and university appoint joint estates director
WORKFORCE: Neal Deans has been appointed as joint director of estates and facilities for St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust and St George’s, University of London.
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New £33m community hospital gets go ahead
STRUCTURE: NHS Somerset has approved the full business case for a £33m community hospital rebuild.
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Northumbria invests £700k in elderly care nurses
WORKFORCE: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has announced it will recruit 30 registered nurses to work with elderly patients in hospitals and the community.
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Doncaster and Bassetlaw FT holding governor election
STRUCTURE: Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is holding an election for governor positions this month.
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Ashton, Leigh and Wigan misses national target for diagnostic waits
PERFORMANCE: The primary care trust NHS Ashton, Leigh and Wigan had 4,254 patients on waiting lists for diagnostic tests at the end of June, of which 81 had been waiting for more than six weeks, latest Department of Health data shows.
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Camden and Islington Foundation Trust deliver 9% saving
FINANCE: Camden and Islington Foundation Trust, the north central London mental health services provider, has reported a £12m saving to Monitor for 2011-12, 9 per cent of its turnover.
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UCLH estates director moving to new job
WORKFORCE: Director of estates and facilities at University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust Trevor Payne is to take up the equivalent job at Barts Health Trust.
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NW midwives volunteer in overseas aid programme
WORKFORCE: UK midwives, largely from the North West, are volunteering to provide training in Africa and Asia UK under a programme run by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
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NewsCSUs will not be allowed to have a board
The commissioning support units hosted by the NHS Commissioning Board will not be allowed to have their own boards, it has been announced.
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NewsCommissioning support units to collaborate on key intelligence services
Details have been released of how commissioning support units will collaborate to provide some essential services at scale.
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NewsLetter reveals uncertainty hanging over quality observatories
Regional quality observatories - set up to monitor and improve service standards - may come to an end when strategic health authorities are abolished next year, a letter reveals.
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NewsCall for NHS 111 rollout slowdown undermined
Just eight clinical commissioning groups have asked the Department of Health for an extension to the deadline for the rollout of NHS 111, despite widespread calls for the process to be slowed down.
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NewsTrust wins treatment intervention ruling
A health trust has won a court ruling that medical staff do not have to forcibly give a seriously ill man the life-prolonging treatment he is resisting.
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NewsA&E 12-hour wait numbers double in Scotland
The number of patients waiting more than 12 hours to be seen at Scottish accident and emergency departments has more than doubled in three years, new figures show.
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Somerset Partnership reports high levels of emergency readmissions
PERFORMANCE: More than 12 per cent of psychiatric patients at Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust were readmitted as a psychiatric emergency within 28 days of discharge during June 2012.
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Somerset Partnership in joint working discussions
STRUCTURE: The chair and chief executive of Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust have met with their counterparts at Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust to discuss potential for joint working.
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NewsNicholson orders trusts to offer approved drugs
All NHS organisations have been ordered to publish details of which drugs they will routinely fund in a bid to make sure patients get medicines they are legally entitled to.
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NewsClinical assessment service joins litigation authority
The body that deals with concerns over the professional practice of doctors, pharmacists and dentists is to become an operating division of the NHS Litigation Authority.
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NewsBed waiting times soar for A&E admissions
The number of patients waiting more than four hours in emergency departments for a bed to become available has rocketed in the past year, HSJ analysis reveals.