Royal Devon University Healthcare FT – Page 5
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Waiting times reach 23 weeks as admissions falter
Elective waiting times have risen from 22 weeks to 23 weeks over the last 14 months, and there is still no end in sight. The target, of course, is just 18 weeks.
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HSJ Local
Improvement director takes up STP chief role
Devon sustainability and transformation partnership has appointed an improvement director who was overseeing three troubled Norfolk trusts as its lead chief executive
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HSJ Local
Trust reviews major pathways ahead of Epic overhaul
An acute and community trust is reviewing four of its main care pathways in an effort to avoid issues faced by other providers as it prepares to switch to the Epic electronic patient record.
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HSJ Local
Largest deficit CCG breaks even for first time ahead of merger
England’s most cash-strapped clinical commissioning group is set to break-even financially for the first time in its history.
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Exclusive: NHS trusts dismiss Brexit impact on staff retention
NHS trusts are not expecting disruption to services caused by EU staff leaving because of Brexit, according to analysis by HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Integrated trust mulls IT link with neighbour
An acute, community and social care trust is considering linking up with its neighbour to get American company Epic as its new provider of electronic patient records.
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Staff survey analysis: Trusts with the most staff experiencing violence
A breakdown by area of acute and combined trusts based on the share of employees experiencing violence from patients, relatives or the public in the last 12 months, according to the NHS staff survey 2018.
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Revealed: The trusts where A&E has slipped most
Waiting time performance for major emergency admissions at one London trust has deteriorated by 29 percentage points in the last two years, HSJ can reveal.
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National radiotherapy plan 'impossible to realise' without more funding
Consolidation of radiotherapy services “will be impossible” without more money, a royal college has warned.
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Exclusive: Genomic trusts named but 18 months from full operation
Seven hub trusts and 27 partners have been selected to be part of a high profile new genomic test network, but will not be fully operational for a further 18 months.
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HSJ Local
Virgin Care set to lose children's service contract to NHS consortium
Virgin Care is likely to lose a children’s contract worth hundreds of millions of pounds as commissioners are set to name an NHS consortium as preferred bidders.
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One year waiters double in six months
One year waiters should be going down, instead they are soaring, warns Rob Findlay
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2018: Information Technology
Winner eConsult: an online GP consultation system enabling safe and appropriate delivery of care
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Troubled STP appoints high profile chair
A high profile regulator and quango chief has been appointed as the new independent chair of a troubled health economy.
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HSJ Local
Trust gets approval for long-awaited £42m single electronic record system
An acute and community trust has launched a long-awaited £42m overhaul of its electronic patient record systems which will “revolutionise” the way care is delivered by staff to patients.
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Financial performance: Best and worst of 2017-18
Twenty NHS providers accounted for almost £600m of deterioration against the trust sector’s financial plans in 2017-18.
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HSJ Local
Chief exec and chair to take on neighbouring hospital trust
A remote acute and community trust will share a chair and chief executive with its nearest neighbour in a bid to find “long term solutions” to its challenges.
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HSJ Local
New academy to recruit nurses with 'exceptional academic ability'
A nursing academy designed to attract and retain students with “exceptional academic ability” to improve patient safety is being launched at Exeter University in collaboration with local NHS trusts.
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Trusts singled out for failing at 'bog standard' IT
The failure of parts of the NHS to use “bog standard” IT is undermining the case to Treasury for more technology funding, an NHS England director has said.
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Comment
Waiting times blow out to 22 weeks as elective admissions falter
Waiting times rose again, and the longest waits were hardest hit. Continued, severe and widespread capacity pressures are the likely culprit. By Rob Findlay