All Reconfiguration articles – Page 57

Comment
How public and private sector partnerships could stimulate efficiency improvements

2011-09-27T15:12:00Z

The slow uptake of technology is restricting much needed improvements in quality and efficiency. Creating partnerships between NHS organisations and private companies could speed things up, reports NHS graduate management trainee Maxine Miles.
HSJ Local
Royal Brompton & Harefield Trust judicial review to start this week

2011-09-26T18:04:00Z

STRUCTURE: The central London specialist trust is due to start its judical review hearing in the High Court on Tuesday.
HSJ Local
West Midlands trauma care review due to complete in February

2011-09-23T16:15:00Z

STRUCTURE: West Midlands Specialised Commissioning is expecting to complete a review of trauma care in the region by February 2012.
Blogs
PFI for an eye?

2011-09-23T15:50:00Z

It is, of course, not for HSJ to speculate why a months old PFI story appeared so prominently in the quality press yesterday.
HSJ Local
Manchester fires starting gun on major reconfiguration

2011-09-22T17:26:00Z

STRUCTURE: Primary care trusts across greater Manchester have agreed to pool resources worth tens of millions of pounds a year to fund a major reconfiguration of the city’s planned and emergency hospital services.
HSJ Local
St George's to split HR director role with university

2011-09-22T17:22:00Z

WORKFORCE: At a staff meeting, employees of the south London trust were told about plans to share the human resources director post with St George’s University of London medical school.
HSJ Local
Super merger plans let down by £116m PFI shortfall

2011-09-22T06:00:00Z

STRUCTURE: A planned merger that would create England’s largest NHS trust would require £116m of support in its first year.
News
Leading doctor calls for more clinically-led reconfigurations

2011-09-22T00:00:00Z

Getting local clinicians to drive reconfiguration plans will reduce “overall system costs” and the number of letters sent to local MPs and newspapers, according to a hospital doctor leader.
HSJ Local
Lancashire Care FT revises reconfiguration blueprint, cutting planned beds by 298

2011-09-21T17:46:00Z

STRUCTURE: The foundation trust has revised its strategic plan for a major reconfiguration of inpatient mental health services across Lancashire, reducing the overall number of beds that will be provided from 560 to 262.
HSJ Local
Bradford hospital begins service change talks with patients

2011-09-20T16:50:00Z

STRUCTURE: Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has begun an informal consultation with the public, commissioners, GPs, staff and patients about “priorities for the development of future hospital services”.
HSJ Local
End of life reform announced in East Yorkshire and Humber

2011-09-16T17:52:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The Humber PCT cluster has announced changes to end of life care as part of plans to improve quality and productivity.
HSJ Local
Northumbria and Newcastle FTs public clash over new hospital plan

2011-09-15T18:14:00Z

STRUCTURE: Professionals and representatives of Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust and the Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust are publicly disputing the case for a proposed new hospital.
HSJ Local
East Kent maternity consultation to begin next month

2011-09-14T18:41:00Z

STRUCTURE: A three month public consultation on the future of maternity services in east Kent is expected to begin in October.
HSJ Local
Royal Surrey County may share back office functions with Frimley Park

2011-09-14T12:07:00Z

STRUCTURE: Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has announced a closer working agreement with Frimley Park NHS Foundation Trust.
Blogs
Go reconfigure?

2011-09-13T14:44:00Z

There was no “clever form of words” to spare the SoS’s blushes in the end.
HSJ Local
NNUH calls on public to help protect future of local liver surgery

2011-09-12T19:26:00Z

STRUCTURE: The public have been invited to attend a talk about the future of liver surgery at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital on 14 September.
HSJ Local
NW to consider rules on 'financial impact' of reconfigurations involving PFI

2011-09-12T18:34:00Z

STRUCTURE: The strategic health authority has confirmed it is working on a set of rules for handling the “financial impact” of reconfigurations involving private finance initiative buildings.
HSJ Local
South Central consults on redesign for stroke, vascular and trauma care

2011-09-12T18:24:00Z

STRUCTURE: A consultation is underway recommending a reconfiguration of stroke, vascular and major trauma care in the South Central region.
HSJ Local
Chase Farm to remain open but loses A&E unit

2011-09-12T13:58:00Z

STRUCTURE: The health secretary has rubber stamped plans to downgrade Chase Farm Hospital’s emergency department and take forward a possible merger with North Middlesex University Hospital Trust.
HSJ Knowledge
How community based diagnostic services can improve patient care and cost-efficiency

2011-09-12T08:00:00Z

Technological advances mean diagnostic services can move into community settings, say Lisa Hollins and colleagues.