News – Page 1407
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Work to begin this month on new Frimley Park A&E
STRUCTURE: Work is about to start on Frimley Park Hospital’s new emergency department, day surgery unit and helipad.
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Frimley Park reports high risk of emergency admission care failure
PERFORMANCE: The FT is currently rated as at “extremely high” risk of failing to provide clinical management of emergency admissions.
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Frimley Park asked to invest in informatics strategy
FINANCE: The FT is “falling behind” other hospitals on informatics and looks set to invest more in this area as a result, according to latest board papers.
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Frimley Park FT appoints two new NEDs
WORKFORCE: Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has appointed two new non-executive directors to its board.
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Berkshire Healthcare FT has responded to CQC concerns on incident reporting
PERFORMANCE: Berkshire Healthcare FT has taken action to address delays in reporting incidents on wards in response to concerns raised by the Care Quality Commission.
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Surplus exceeds expectation at Tees, Esk and Wear FT
FINANCE: Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust exceeded its plans to record a net operating surplus of £6.5m during 2010-11.
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Homerton breaches MRSA targets
PERFORMANCE: Homerton University Hospital breached two MRSA targets for 2010/11 in February, but the foundation trust insists that there have been no “clinically significant” cases since August 2010.
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Rotherham FT to lose fifth of CQUIN cash
FINANCE: The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust was set to miss out on more than a fifth of its performance related CQUIN (commissioning for quality and innovation) payments in 2010-11.
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NewsReform review may demand 'no more reorganisations'
The NHS Future Forum is considering recommending “no more top-down reorganisations” of the service in its report to the prime minister, HSJ has learned.
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News£300m bill for social care services transfer
Transferring social care from councils to the NHS could cost more than £300m, according to the organisation representing Scotland’s 32 councils.
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NewsAcute mixed-sex ward breaches still in the thousands
Nearly half of NHS acute trusts are still putting patients in mixed-sex accommodation despite facing financial penalties, new figures show.
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NewsEating assistance figure unchanged in nine years
Almost one in five NHS patients who need help with eating are offered no assistance - a figure that has not changed since 2002, data shows.
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NewsJoint pathology venture fairly awarded, CCP decides
A foundation trust did not breach competition principles in selecting a public/private partnership for its pathology services, the NHS market regulator has found.
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NewsAmbulance services eye savings by sending fewer ambulances
Ambulance services plan to save the NHS “tens of millions” by sending fewer patients to hospital, now the category B response target has been scrapped.
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Name chosen for community hospital in Selby
STRUCTURE: A new community hospital in Yorkshire has been named following a public vote.
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NHS North Yorkshire scopes telehealth success
PERFORMANCE: Patients prefer long term conditions to be monitored from home, according to a recent North Yorkshire survey.
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Salford Royal averts risk of mixed sex accommodation breaches
FINANCE: The foundation has found a short term “operational solution” to avoid huge fines from a surgical admissions lounge (SAL) in breach of tougher new rules on single sex accommodation.
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Oxfordshire GP consortium elects leader
WORKFORCE: Dr Stephen Richards has been elected to lead the Oxfordshire GP Consortium with 94 per cent of the vote.
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Isle of Wight provider arm currently unsustainable
FINANCE: Work to identify a sustainable provider model on the Isle of Wight is “critical” once the primary care trust is wound up and the commissioner will no longer be able to subsidise the provider arm.
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New patient record system will join up services on the Isle of Wight
COMMERCIAL: Business and technology service company Logica is to deliver an integrated patient care record system for NHS Isle of Wight.