All NORTH BRISTOL NHS TRUST articles – Page 9
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HSJ Local
North Bristol disagrees with commissioner QIPP plans
FINANCE: North Bristol Trust is planning for income £6.5m above commissioner plans due in part to a lack of confidence in activity reduction plans and disagreements over waiting list backlogs, board papers reveal.
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HSJ Local
North Bristol agrees funding for hospital move
FINANCE: North Bristol Trust has agreed an additional £4.5m of non-recurrent transitional funding with NHS England to cover the costs of moving to the new private finance initiative hospital during 2013-14.
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HSJ Local
Plans for Bristol and Bath vascular network
STRUCTURE: North Bristol Trust’s Southmead hospital is likely to be the centre of a new vascular network across Bristol, Bath, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.
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HSJ Local
CCG warns on North Bristol ambulance handovers
PERFORMANCE: A performance board paper for South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group warns that North Bristol NHS Trust ambulance handover breach rates remain higher than the target, and that the ambulance trust failed to meet its target for 2012-13.
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NewsAnalysed: District general hospitals look to private patient income
District general hospitals are increasing their private patient offerings
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HSJ Local
NHS England director leaving to become North Bristol Trust chief executive
WORKFORCE: North Bristol Trust has appointed a new chief executive.
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Blogs
Sharp increase in English waiting list
The number of patients waiting rose sharply in March, and is now higher than in recent years and may indicate waiting time pressures to come. But bed pressures over winter do not explain all the increase
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NewsHigh cost of fines for long waits revealed
English hospitals would have been fined £227m in 2012 if they had been subjected to the penalty regime written into their contracts for the current financial year, according to analysis shared exclusively with HSJ.
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HSJ Local
North Somerset A&E patients face long waits
PERFORMANCE: More than a quarter of north somerset patients who attended a local accident and emergency department in March faced waits of longer than four hours.
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HSJ Local
Five south west trusts report 12 hour trolley waits
PERFORMANCE: Seven patients admitted as emergencies to North Bristol Trust have waited more than 12 hours since the beginning of the financial year, more than any other trust in the south west.
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NewsExclusive: Dramatic increase in emergency 12 hours 'trolley waits' uncovered
Pressure on accident and emergency departments has seen a large increase in the number of hospital trusts reporting patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted, an HSJ analysis has found.
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HSJ Local
Cerner Millennium problems at North Bristol
PERFORMANCE: Recent North Somerset CCG board papers warn that North Bristol NHS Trust is still experiencing “significant reporting problems” following the implementation of Cerner Millennium for outpatient reporting.
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HSJ Local
North Bristol gets red rating
PERFORMANCE: North Bristol Trust has moved from an amber-red to a red rating under Monitor’s governance risk rating framework.
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HSJ Local
Bristol trusts respond to service change 'anti-competitive' claim
COMMERCIAL: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust and North Bristol Trust are to start work to demonstrate the benefits to patients of their swapping services after the Co-operation and Competition Panel concluded it could be anti-competitive.
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HSJ Local
CQC finds North Bristol failing one standard
PERFORMANCE: Care Quality Commission inspectors found North Bristol Trust was not meeting standards on record keeping during a routine visit earlier this year.
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HSJ LocalCCP finds Bristol 'service swap' could be anti-competitive
COMMERCIAL: Plans to centralise some acute services in Bristol could be anti-competitive and must be investigated further, the Co-operation and Competition Panel has ruled.
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HSJ Local
Bristol trusts confirm service swap
SERVICE DESIGN: The delivery of a number of services delivered across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire has changed.
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HSJ Local
North Bristol trust working on burns dressing breakthrough
RESEARCH- Clinicians at North Bristol NHS Trust have worked with scientists at the University of Bath to develop a prototype medical dressing that detects the first signs of the lethal Toxic Shock Syndrome along with other burn wound infections and could potentially save the lives of children with serious ...
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HSJ Local
North Bristol plans cancer centres
SERVICE DESIGN- Plans have been submitted for two new cancer care and support centres at North Bristol NHS Trust
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HSJ Local
North Bristol trust to appoint chief executive
STRUCTURE: North Bristol NHS Trust is set to recruit a new chief executive. The outcome of the Bristol Acute Services Review found that “any organisational change involving integration between United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust and North Bristol NHS Trust would be premature at this time.”