Royal Devon University Healthcare FT – Page 3
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HSJ Local
Patients asked to travel 200 miles in push to cut elective waits
Long waiting times at Devon’s acute hospitals have forced commissioners to offer patients treatment 200 miles away in London in a bid to reduce the elective backlog.
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Expert Briefing
Trusts scrap long-awaited merger
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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Expert Briefing
West Country Chronicle: Trusts set ‘enablers’ for merger
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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HSJ Local
Former ambassador appointed chair of merging trust
An acute and community trust has appointed a former UK ambassador as its new chair.
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Awards 2021: Acute Sector Innovation of the Year
WINNER: Royal Devon and Exeter FT: Patient-Led Home Blood Testing
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2021: Mental Health Initiative of the Year
WINNER Devon Partnership Trust and Royal Devon and Exeter FT: Connecting Physical and Mental Health Services in Gastroenterology
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Specialist Service Redesign Initiative
WINNER: Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHSFT, The Royal Devon & Exeter Hospitals NHSFT and NHSE/I Specialised Commissioning Improving Value and South West region teams: Enhanced Supportive Care in Cancer: Embedding Service Redesign, Improving Experience, Making a Difference. Clatterbridge Cancer Centre and Royal Devon & Exeter NHSFT joined the NHSE/I Enhanced Supportive ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Cancer Care Initiative of the Year
WINNER: South Tees Hospitals FT: Holistic Wellbeing Calls for Cancer Patients At the outset of the pandemic a new telephone service was established to proactively call cancer patients to check their wellbeing, offer holistic therapy, provide local information and support, refer to appropriate services or simply provide a listening ear ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Award
WINNER: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust: Medicines Optimisation in Orthopaedic Enhanced Recovery The pharmacy department of a district general hospital worked with the multidisciplinary team in orthopaedics to reduce variation in medication use among elective hip and knee replacement patients. The project focused on the following points to optimise medication use: ...
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News
More than a dozen trust chairs receive two salaries as shared leadership spreads
Sixteen people are now chairing more than one NHS trust, but there is significant variation in how much they are paid for their extra roles, an HSJ analysis has found.
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HSJ Local
Neighbouring ICSs plan single hospital IT system
Five trusts across two integrated care systems are drawing up plans to roll out a single electronic patient record funded by the government’s flagship infrastructure project.
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HSJ Local
Trust buys Nightingale hospital to help tackle elective backlog
A hospital trust has bought the site of its local Nightingale Hospital, because it wants to continue using it to help tackle the elective backlog.
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HSJ Interactive
Virtual clinics can enable remote monitoring of rheumatology patients
North Devon Healthcare Trust has pioneered virtual clinics to improve access for patients stable on advanced therapies for rheumatoid arthritis bringing benefits both to patients and to the NHS
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HSJ Local
‘40 new hospitals’ trust puts new IT system ahead of building
An acute and community trust, which has been allocated money as part of the “40 new hospitals” programme, is prioritising buying a new electronic patient record ahead of rebuilding its estate.
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News
‘Secretive’ safety findings set to be revealed direct to CQC
The Care Quality Commission may in future be notified when ‘secretive’ external reviews have looked at patient safety issues within trusts.
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Expert Briefing
West Country Chronicle: The NHS is failing to diagnose Devon’s autistic children
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News
Merging trusts seek digital investment with ‘40 new hospitals’ funds
Two acute and community trusts are considering spending part of their government-funded estates cash on a major digital transformation project, amid plans to merge into one organisation.
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HSJ Local
Trust boss warns region faces ‘absolute crisis’ with trusts ‘hanging on by their fingernails’
Hospital chiefs in the South West have warned the region will not avoid the extreme pressures felt by other parts of the NHS, amid rapidly rising numbers of covid-19 inpatients.
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News
HSJ’s most read technology stories of 2020
With 2020 down to its final days, it’s time to take a look back at HSJ’s most read technology stories of the year.
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News
10 new hospital vaccine sites revealed
Ten more hospitals are to start giving the Pfizer covid vaccine, including two in coronavirus ‘hot spots’.