News – Page 965
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Norfolk and Norwich free of MRSA for a year
PERFORMANCE: The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital has had no MRSA blood stream infections (bacteraemias) for more than a year.
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Non attendance costs Calderdale trust £5m a year
FINANCE: Patients not turning up for outpatient appointments are costing Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust nearly £5m a year in lost income.
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Commissioners agree extra cash for Coventry trust
FINANCE: University Hospitals Coventry and WarwickshireTrust moved from surplus to deficit at month ten after reaching a settlement with local commissioners.
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South Warwickshire delivers double planned surplus
FINANCE: South Warwickshire Foundation Trust finished January on a £3.2m surplus – more than double the expected amount.
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Bradford doctor produces study on feeding infants
CLINICAL RESEARCH: A Bradford doctor has led on a groundbreaking study into babies who fail to take enough breast milk.
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Swab left inside patient at Barnsley trust
PERFORMANCE: A swab was left inside a patient after childbirth at Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust.
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Airedale telemedicine project eases winter pressures
PERFORMANCE: Telemedicine links into nursing homes have helped Airedale Foundation Trust cope with winter pressures and avoid some accident and emergency visits.
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Barnsley trust expects to fail on A&E performance
PERFORMANCE: Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust expects to fail the four hour accident and emergency target this year with the board hearing it was now “mathematically impossible” to meet it after missing it for the last five months.
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Airedale chief admits concerns over financial position
FINANCE: The chief executive of Airedale Foundation Trust has warned of concern at the trust’s underlying financial position and the impact on longer term viability.
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Barnsley stroke services accredited
PERFORMANCE: Yorkshire and Humber SHA have fully accredited Barnsley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for the organisation’s stroke services.
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NewsNHS England to focus future QIPP on 'transformational change'
NHS England has confirmed that the quality, innovation, productivity and prevention savings programme will continue into the next comprehensive spending review period, pledged to set out how major service reconfigurations should be carried out.
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Hike in tests concerns Barnsley CCG
PERFORMANCE: The latest integrated performance report board papers for Barnsley CCG warns of a significant increase in number of non-endoscopy based tests for its patients across the patch.
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New nursing professor in Hertfordshire
RESEARCH: A new professorship in community children’s nursing has been created to support research into the experiences of young people with long-term conditions and disabilities.
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Oxford Trust delivers 91 per cent of CIPs plan
FINANCE: Oxford University Hospitals Trust delivered £36.7m in savings in the first ten months of 2012-13 – 91 per cent of its plan.
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NewsKeogh defends Leeds stoppage as heart surgery cleared to resume
Children’s heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary was halted because of poor data showing unusually high death rates which were submitted by the hospital itself, the medical director of NHS England has said.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: NHS England wins stop gap approval to handle patient data
NHS England has been granted temporary permission to use sensitive patient information, after being forced to make an urgent application for a special legal exemption, HSJ has learned.
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West London Mental Health Trust appoints two new NEDs
WORKFORCE: The NHS Trust Development Authority has appointed two new non-executive directors to West London Mental Health Trust.
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Imperial in surplus at M11 after agreeing 'technical accounting adjustments'
FINANCE: Imperial College Healthcare Trust has achieved a surplus of £8.4m at the end of February and the year-end forecast “has been revised to £9.745m following agreement with NHS London over reporting of a number of technical accounting adjustments”, a report to the board said.
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Hammersmith Hospital best performing of Imperial's A&E under new test
PERFORMANCE: The Friends and Family Test has rated Hammersmith Hospital’s A&E top of the four run by Imperial College Healthcare Trust.
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Children's mental health service review launched in east Yorkshire
STRUCTURE: East Riding of Yorkshire and Hull Clinical Commissioning Groups, Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council have launched a review and redesign of Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the area.