All SOUTH DEVON HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST articles – Page 4
-
HSJ Local
Emergency admissions on the rise at Torbay Hospital
PERFORMANCE: Emergency admissions to South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust increased by 5.6 per cent between April and August 2012 compared to the same period the previous year.
-
HSJ Local
Norovirus drives increase in C diff at South Devon
PERFORMANCE: South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust has warned it is likely to exceed the limit for cases of Clostridium difficile in 2012-13.
-
HSJ Local
South Devon plans evening and weekend lists to tackle RTT backlog
PERFORMANCE: South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust is transferring some patients to an independent provider and planning to run weekend clinics in order to reduce its referral to treatment backlog in some specialties.
-
HSJ Local
South West trusts sign multimillion-pound imaging contract
COMMERCIAL: Five South West trusts have signed a multimillion-pound contract for a digital imaging system which will allow staff to view images taken in other hospitals.
-
HSJ Local
Torbay Hospital robot in worldwide first
CLINICAL: Torbay Hospital, run by South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust, has become the first place in the world to carry out a complex urology procedure as a day case.
-
HSJ LocalAnalysed: faltering foundation trust ambitions in Devon
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of the key issues facing the NHS’s major health economies. This week: how the transforming community services programme is affecting Devon organisations’ foundation trust ambitions.
-
HSJ Local
South Devon Healthcare goes almost two years without MRSA
PERFORMANCE: South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust ended almost two years without a case or MRSA when a patient contracted the superbug last month.
-
HSJ Local
South Devon over achieves surplus
FINANCE: South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust finished 2011-12 with a surplus of around £4.6m, £2.4m ahead of plan.
-
HSJ LocalIntegration pioneer Torbay to merge
STRUCTURE: Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care Trust looks set to abandon its foundation trust ambitions and seek a merger.
-
HSJ Local
Devon cluster meets 6 week target
PERFORMANCE: The Devon, Plymouth and Torbay cluster met the six week target for diagnostic tests for the first time in 2011-12 during February.
-
HSJ Local
Torbay looks to collaborate with acute trust
STRUCTURE: Torbay Care Trust and South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust have agreed to “strengthen their levels of collaboration”.
-
HSJ Local
New chief executive to lead integrated future for Yeovil
STRUCTURE: Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust has appointed a new chief executive with experience of running community services as it shifts its focus to delivery of an integrated range of services.
-
HSJ Local
South Devon £2m above surplus target
FINANCE: South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust had a surplus at the end of November of £3.1m for the year to date, £2m more than planned.
-
HSJ Local
South Devon risks missing C difficile target
PERFORMANCE: South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust reported one case of C difficile in November, bringing the year to date total to 15.
-
HSJ Local
Northern Devon performs best on 18 week RTT target
PERFORMANCE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust was the only trust in the NHS Devon, Plymouth and Torbay primary care trust cluster to meet the 18 week referral to treatment target for all specialties during October.
-
NewsRevealed: the foundations predicting steepest pay bill cuts
At least four acute foundation trusts have forecast wage bill cuts of 10 per cent or more over the coming two years, an HSJ analysis has found.
-
HSJ Local
South Devon overachieving surplus
FINANCE: South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust has overachieved its planned surplus by £766,000 at the end of month six.
-
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.
-
HSJ Local
South West trusts sign pharma research deal
COMMERCIAL: Five NHS trusts have begun working with the world’s biggest biopharmaceutical company to provide patients for clinical trials.
-
NewsFTs must still report against relaxed A&E indicators
Monitor is to warn foundation trusts that not reporting performance against five new accident and emergency indicators is not an option, despite growing concerns over data quality and the burden of gathering data.