All Performance articles – Page 136
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Funding fears for teenage pregnancy services in South Birmingham amid PCT "red risk"
PERFORMANCE: Young people in south Birmingham are not being referred to services aimed at reducing teenage pregnancy, even though conception rates are running at 41 per cent above target.
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'Challenging' CQUINs for Buckinghamshire Healthcare
PERFORMANCE: Buckinghamshire Healthcare may struggle to reach quality and innovation targets set by its primary care trust.
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Liverpool Women’s FT behind on five CQUIN commitments
PERFORMANCE: The foundation is underperforming on five commissioning for quality and innovation schemes, which make a proportion of its income dependent on quality improvements.
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NHS West Sussex has lower rate of drug dispensing
PERFORMANCE: NHS West Sussex has published a pharmaceutical needs assessment showing it is behind the rest of the country on dispensing levels.
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Royal United Bath reports best A&E performance in region
PERFORMANCE: Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust was the best performing trust in the south west for A&E waiting times in the week between Christmas and New Year.
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£1m from private mental health underspend funding acute overspends at NHS Dudley
FINANCE: NHS Dudley is using a £1m underspend on its private sector mental health services to offset a £2.9m acute overspend.
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Low patient numbers make waiting targets a challenge for Aintree Hospitals FT
PERFORMANCE: The foundation missed referral to treatment waiting targets for Knowsley patients in five specialties in November, latest figures show.
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CQC still has 'concerns' over North East London Foundation Trust consent to treatment assurance
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission said consent to treatment was its “greatest area of concern” at the London mental health trust, particularly as it had been brought up in previous reports by the Mental Health Act Commission.
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Heatherwood and Wexham Park FT seeks to clarify 'urgent referrals' with GPs
PERFORMANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham FT is working to clarify with GPs the definition of an “urgent referral”, its board has heard.
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Nottingham University Hospitals exceeds yearly C.Diff target
PERFORMANCE: Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has already exceeded its yearly target for the number of clostridium difficile cases acquired there.
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St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals miss waiting targets in five specialties
PERFORMANCE: The trust missed referral to treatment waiting targets for Knowsley patients in five specialties in November, latest figures show.
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West London Mental Health Trust trust to investigate inpatients discharged without CPA plans
PERFORMANCE: The trust is looking at how seven service users came to be discharged without Care Programme Approach plans confirmed.
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CQC drops in on Weston Area Health Trust
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has carried out an unannounced visit at Weston Area Health Trust.
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Oral surgery backlog at Heatherwood and Wexham Park FT
PERFORMANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park FT’s oral surgery department is underperforming due to “chronic capacity problems”, its board has been told.
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PCT tells Basildon and Thurrock FT to delay appointments
PERFORMANCE: Basildon and Thurrock Foundation Trust has been asked by the primary care trust to delay non-urgent first appointments until 14 weeks after GP referral.
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NHS Bolton sees poor waiting times performance deteriorate among its providers
PERFORMANCE: The performance of hospitals in Bolton against key waiting times indicators continued to deteriorate in December, the primary care trust reported.
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Colchester FT underachieving on CQUINs
FINANCE: Underchievement on CQUIN goals by Colchester Hospital Foundation Trust has cost it nearly £0.5m so far this year.
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The Hillingdon Hospital's midwifery head raises c-section target concern with SHA
PERFORMANCE: The head of the north west London hospital trust’s midwifery service has approached NHS London to query whether the target for the number of caesarian sections is too low.
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St George's Healthcare Trust misses four-hour A&E target
PERFORMANCE: The south London acute achieved 96.99 per cent in September against the target of 98 per cent, a document published by NHS Richmond and Twickenhan reports.