News – Page 873
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Taunton chief welcomes scrutiny by chief inspector
PERFORMANCE: The chief executive of Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust has welcomed the trust’s inclusion in the first wave of hospitals to be inspected under the new chief inspector of hospitals’ regime.
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North Essex Partnership extends mental health support phone line
PERFORMANCE North Essex Partnership and Mid Essex Mind, has secured funding to extend an out of hours mental health support line service it has been piloting for the last year.
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Complaints stay level year-on-year at South west London and St George's Mental Health Trust
PERFORMANCE: Complaints have stayed level year-on-year at South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust, a board report reveals.
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St Helens and Knowsley plans £15.4m savings in 2013-14
FINANCE: St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals Trust aims to make cost improvement programme savings of £15.4m in 2013-14.
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South London and Maudsley IAPT services sees increase in advice calls regarding sexual abuse
PERFORMANCE: South London and Maudsley’s Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies services have seen an increase in calls regarding historical sexual abuse, board papers report.
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Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust planning to re-model community services
STRUCTURE: Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust is planning to re-structure Enfield community services, which it took over in the Transforming Community Services programme in 2010.
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Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust sets up new services after GP concerns
PERFORMANCE: Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust has set up two new services in response to access concerns from GPs.
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NewsExclusive: Employers seek to link pay rise to seven-day working
Next year’s pay rise for NHS staff could be linked to changes in their working practices to help force more seven-day working, it has emerged.
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NewsConcern over Monitor's Bristol 'merger' decision
Monitor has concluded that quality improvements borne of a recent reconfiguration of acute services in Bristol are not sufficient to outweigh the loss of patient choice resulting from the “merger”. The competition regulator said the decision would have “important considerations” for the “wider health system”.
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HSJ LocalMerging Dorset trusts start work on plan B
STRUCTURE: The Dorset foundation trusts waiting for a decision on their merger plans have agreed to stop meetings about the merger and are developing alternative plans, HSJ has learned.
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NewsPioneer database faces delay after watchdog intervenes
NHS England’s controversial plan to extract confidential information from patient records to build a national database faces a delay after an intervention by the information watchdog.
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NewsWales braced for hospital care review decision
A panel of experts is set to reveal its findings on divisive proposals to overhaul hospital services in west Wales.
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HSJ LocalJunior doctor numbers tripled at struggling A&E
Extra government funding will be used to trebled the number of junior doctors at the accident and emergency department of a trust affected by the closure of services at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, it has been announced.
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Great Western 'disappointed' over A&E bail out
FINANCE: The chief executive of Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust has expressed her disappointment that the trust missed out on a share of the government’s accident and emergency bailout fund.
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Great Western recruits nurses from Spain
WORKFORCE: Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed more than 50 nurses from abroad.
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GMC abandons case against four Mid Staffs doctors
WORKFORCE: The General Medical Council has abandoned fitness to practise investigations into four senior doctors at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust due to insufficient evidence.
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George Eliot relies on agency staff for A&E
WORKFORCE: More than a third of George Eliot Hospital Trust’s pay bill in accident and emergency and acute medicine is being spent on agency staff.
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Kent Partnership falls below average in PLACE scores
PERFORMANCE: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust scored below average for all four standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime.
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Western Sussex pegged back by PLACE score for appearance
PERFORMANCE: Western Sussex Hospitals Foundation Trust scored well above average for three of the four new standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime, but fell short on appearance and maintenance.