News – Page 949
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HSJ Local
Queen Victoria FT keeps patients in the loop after ops
PERFORMANCE: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing above average in the inpatient survey for explaining how successful a procedure has been.
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HSJ Local
Docs treat patients with dignity at Queen Victoria FT
PERFORMANCE: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing above average in the inpatient survey for the way doctors acted around them.
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HSJ Local
Western Sussex patients question clarity of medic letters
PERFORMANCE: Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing below average in the inpatient survey for whether patients could understand correspondence sent between their GP and their consultant.
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HSJ Local
Royal Surrey discusses equipment needs with patients
PERFORMANCE: Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing above average in the inpatient survey for discussing with patients whether they needed special equipment at home following discharge.
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HSJ Local
Virgin wins fifth prison healthcare contract
COMMERCIAL: Virgin Care has won a contract to manage comprehensive primary care services for prisoners at HMP Bullingdon, in a deal worth £6.6m to the private provider over three years.
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HSJ Local
Crane hits hospital wall on West Cumberland redevelopment site
STRUCTURE: Developers have ceased work on the redevelopment of West Cumberland Hospital, North Cumbria, after a crane hit a hospital wall smashing a window.
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Young medics' working lives 'bleak'
Almost three in 10 junior doctors are stretched so thin that they do not have time to deliver quality patient care, a poll suggests.
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HSJ Local
Patients confident in doctors at Queen Victoria FT
PERFORMANCE: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing above average in the inpatient survey for levels of confidence in medics.
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NewsExclusive: Ministers want CCG topslice to fund health and social care integration
Part of clinical commissioning groups’ budgets – potentially worth more than £1bn – should be used to fund integration with council-run social care services, Norman Lamb has told HSJ.
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NewsExclusive: A&E performance plummets as majority of trusts miss target
Accident and emergency waiting time performance plummeted in April, as hospital leaders told HSJ they were grappling with the after-effects of “the worst winter anyone can remember”.
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HSJ Local
Poor delayed discharge score for Medway
PERFORMANCE: Medway NHS Foundation Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing below average in the inpatient survey for delayed discharge.
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HSJ Local
Privacy highly rated at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare
PERFORMANCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing above average in the inpatient survey for levels of privacy during examinations.
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HSJ Local
New chief executive for Peninsula
WORKFORCE: Peninsula Community Health, which provides community health services in Cornwall, has appointed a new chief executive.
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HSJ Local
Croydon appoints new chief operating officer
WORKFORCE: Croydon Health Services Trust has appointed a new chief operating officer.
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HSJ Local
New special administrator for South London Healthcare Trust
WORKFORCE: Caroline Taylor has been appointed new trust special administrator for South London Healthcare Trust, replacing Matthew Kerhsaw who has taken up the top post at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals.
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HSJ Local
Community hospital moves patients due to gas leak
PERFORMANCE: Eighteen elderly patients had to be moved from a community hospital at the weekend after an underground gas leak.
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NewsMedics slam radiotherapy 'red tape'
A group of doctors has claimed in a letter that changes to NHS commissioning is delaying radiotherapy treatment and putting patients’ lives at risk.
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HSJ Local
North West London Hospitals Trusts records a 12-hour-plus waiter in April
PERFORMANCE: North West London Hospitals Trust saw one patient left waiting to be admitted more than 12 hours after the decision to admit was made.
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HSJ Local
Bolton FT cuts ‘backlog’ of long waiters
PERFORMANCE: In the final three months of 2012-13 Bolton Foundation Trust more than halved its ‘backlog’ of patients who had been waiting more than 18 weeks for admission, according to clinical commissioning group board papers.