News – Page 1204
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Integrated A&E at Mid Staffs to open by October
STRUCTURE: Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust is “optimistic” its accident and emergency department will open fully in time for May and is hoping to open a new department in October.
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South Tees reports £2.6m surplus
FINANCE: South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust was reporting a surplus of £2.6m at the end of December - £1.6m below plan.
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South Tees lines up new linear accelerators
PERFORMANCE: South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust will become the first site in the world to use a new model of linear accelerators from April.
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Northumbria close to C difficile target
PERFORMANCE: Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust is forecasting it will have 84 cases of C difficile this year - bringing it very close to its target of 90.
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Barnsley Hospital FT £1.1m behind plan
FINANCE: Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust has made £3.8m efficiency savings in the first nine months of the financial year - but this is £1.1m behind plan.
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Gynaecology operations halted at Hartlepool
WORKFORCE: North Tees and Hartlepool Foundation Trust has had to suddenly halt inpatient gynaecology operations in Hartlepool because of the “unexpected absence of senior medical staff”.
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Barnsley misses A&E target
PERFORMANCE: Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust narrowly missed the 95 per cent target for seeing A&E patients within four hours in December.
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North Tees and Hartlepool above C. diff target
PERFORMANCE: North Tees and Hartlepool Foundation Trust is above trajectory for c dif cases in the first nine months of the financial year.
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Work continues on Newcastle's falls strategy
PERFORMANCE: Work is continuing to embed the falls prevention strategy at Newcastle Hospitals.
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Newcastle in surplus
FINANCE: At the end of November, Newcastle Hospitals was £0.5m in surplus after a planned deficit of £9m.
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Newcastle records three post-48 hours MRSA cases
PERFORMANCE: Three post-48 hours MRSA cases were reported at Newcastle Hospitals in the third quarter of the year.
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Gateshead recalls 1,700 for syphilis test
SERVICES: Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust is recalling around 1,700 people who were tested for syphilis at any of the sexual health clinics in Gateshead, between April 2010 and June 2011, for repeat tests.
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Medical simulation training facility opens in Gateshead
SERVICE: TV chef and hairy biker Simon King opened a new medical simulation training facility in Gateshead.
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Tees trust sees performance improve
PERFORMANCE: Performance has been improving in the parts of North Yorkshire where the Tees, Esk and Wear Valley Foundation Trust has taken on.
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Tees, Esk and Wear Valley reports surplus
FINANCE: Tees, Esk and Wear Valley Foundation Trust had a surplus of £4m at the end of December.
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Older people's inpatient unit to close
SERVICES: Tees, Esk and Wear Valley Foundation Trust is proposing to make the temporary closure of an inpatient unit for older people permanent.
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NewsExclusive: prime minister calls summit on 'implementing NHS reforms'
The prime minister has called a summit to discuss the “implementation of the NHS reforms” on Monday afternoon with senior healthcare leaders.
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NewsNHS 'under-estimates' the cost of eye disease
Older patients may be missing out on sight-saving treatment because the NHS has seriously under-estimated the prevalence and cost of elderly eye disease, claim specialists.
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Mark Davies appointed permanent chief executive of Imperial
WORKFORCE: The west London hospital trust, one of the largest in the country, announced it was appointing Mr Davies permanently this morning.
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Competition watchdog clears Trafford Healthcare takeover
STRUCTURE: The NHS competition watchdog has approved Central Manchester University Hospitals’ proposed takeover of Trafford Healthcare Trust, the hospital known as the “birthplace of the NHS”.