All North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust articles – Page 5
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HSJ Local
NW ambulance service blames 'protracted' contract negotiations for performance dip
PERFORMANCE: Protracted negotiations with commissioners were the overriding cause of the North West Ambulance Service’s failure to hit its key response times target for the initial months of 2011-12, its draft annual report states.
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HSJ Local
Ambulance service adopts TETRA Messenger for first responders
COMMERCIAL: The ambulance trust has become the first service in the country to purchase voice and data firm Airwave’s TETRA Messenger devices for its community first response teams, the firm reported today.
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HSJ Local
‘High level’ risk to NWAS if funding for investment plan not renewed
FINANCE: The trust has added a new “high level” risk to its risk register, warning of the impact if the service does not receive recurrent funding for its investment plan in the coming financial year.
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News30th annual HSJ Awards winners revealed
The 30th HSJ Awards took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London, recognising trusts and organisations for outstanding excellence in healthcare service and innovation across 18 key health categories.
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News£30m spent on NHS patient taxis - report
More than £30m has been spent on taxis for NHS patients since 2008 thanks to a shortage of official non-emergency transport, according to the BBC.
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HSJ Local
NW Ambulance Service sees sharp improvement in response times
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s performance against its response target for immediately life threatening “Category A” calls improved dramatically in late summer, its latest performance report shows.
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NewsManchester and Birmingham hardest hit in fourth night of rioting
Rioters threw bricks at two ambulance response cars in the West Midlands and attacked an ambulance in Manchester during the fourth night of violent disorder in England’s cities.
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HSJ Local
Amber-red rating for North West Ambulance Service’s FT bid
STRUCTURE: The ambulance trust’s bid for foundation status was rated amber-red by NHS North West at the end of June, according to a letter sent by the strategic health authority last month.
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HSJ Local
Two women die after Royal Oldham A&E wait
PERFORMANCE: Two women died after they had to be treated in ambulances outside a hospital because its A&E unit was full.
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HSJ Local
Blackburn with Darwen surplus was ahead of plan in January
FINANCE: The care trust plus was reporting a 2010-11 in-year surplus of £1.195m against its NHS commissioning and provider services budgets at the end of January, £23,000 above its planned surplus to that point of the year.
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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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NewsParamedics must be safe at major incidents
Paramedics must not be put at risk if the way decisions are made on attending patients at dangerous emergency incidents are altered, ambulance staff have warned.
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NewsParamedic concerns raised by Bird inquest coroner
Concerns about ambulance staff being held back from casualty scenes have been raised by the coroner who held inquests into the deaths of Derrick Bird and the 12 people he shot dead in Cumbria last year.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe unique advantages of advanced paramedic practitioners
The full benefits of advanced practitioners are yet to be seen. But they range from saving costs to reducing admissions. Lucy Brown and colleagues in the North West report on the difference these roles are making in the region.
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HSJ Local
NW Ambulance service recovers response times, but remains unlikely to hit 2010-11 target
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s response times for “Category A” calls improved in January, after they plummeted under major pressures over Christmas and New Year, but it remained unhopeful it could meet its target for the year.
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CommentTargets in sharp focus for the North West
The Department of Health might appear to hate targets these days, but you could be forgiven for thinking the news has not travelled north.
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HSJ Local
Ambulance turnaround times rise to nearly two hours at Tameside Hospital FT over Christmas
PERFORMANCE: Ambulance turnaround times at the Tameside General Hospital over Christmas and New Year were among the worst in the North West, the ambulance service reported.
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HSJ Local
North West Ambulance Service battered by 999 calls surge, snow, and slow hospitals
PERFORMANCE: An unprecedented surge of emergency calls over Christmas and New Year has left the trust with huge challenges in meeting its Category A response times target for 2010/11.
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NewsCumbrian ambulance staff offered counselling
Ambulance staff who attended the crime scenes after the shootings in west Cumbria will be offered a counselling service to cope with the aftermath of the event, the ambulance service said.
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