All South West articles – Page 67
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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.
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HSJ Local
Bristol reconsiders mental health tendering plans
COMMERCIAL: NHS Bristol may not put all secondary mental health services in Bristol out to tender following concerns from the public and NHS South of England.
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HSJ Local
Concerns about consultant who delivered prime minister's baby date back more than 10 years
PERFORMANCE: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has launched a review of the care provided to women by the consultant who delivered prime minister David Cameron’s baby.
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HSJ Local
Weston abandons ambition to form integrated care organisation
STRUCTURE: Plans for an integrated care organisation incorporating England’s smallest acute have been abandoned, it has been confirmed.
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HSJ Local
Sirona seeks new business
COMMERCIAL: Sirona Care and Health has won £1.8m of new business, board papers reveal.
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HSJ Local
Delayed transfers of care high at Sirona hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Delayed transfers of care at community hospitals run by and integrated provider of health and social care are increasing.
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News
Row over 'pay cartel' reaches Parliament
MPs are due to debate the threat of regional pay to the NHS and the actions of the South West “pay cartel” this week, in a move designed to spark action from the government.
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HSJ Local
Bristol children's cardiac ward where patient died was understaffed
PERFORMANCE: Managers at University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust have been criticised by the Care Quality Commission for failing to address long running staffing issues on a ward for seriously ill children.
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HSJ Local
Provider sparks probe into placement claim
COMMERCIAL: A primary care trust is refusing to fund placements at a privately run facility for patients with learning disabilities because of its proximity to the site of a scandal-hit NHS hospital, it has been claimed.
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News
Exclusive: Unions close to deal on Agenda for Change
National talks on changes to NHS workers’ pay and terms and conditions could be close to a deal, HSJ has learnt.
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HSJ Local
ACAS bought in to Carillion dispute
WORKFORCE: Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust’s private finance initiative partner Carillion have approached the Advisory, Concillation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) to mediate in its long running dispute with hospitality staff.
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HSJ Local
Great Western struggles for chemo capacity
PERFORMANCE: Patients are waiting up to three weeks for chemotherapy at Great Western Hospital Foundation Trust due to major capacity problems.
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HSJ Local
Somerset Partnership fails readmission target
PERFORMANCE: Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust had a psychiatric emergency readmission rate of 12.6 per cent in August against a target of 10 per cent.
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HSJ Local
South Bristol minor injuries unit fails to attract A&E patients
FINANCE: Attendances at the new South Bristol Community Hospital minor injuries unit are below planned levels, creating a risk of an overspend for commisisoners.
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HSJ Local
Somerset Partnership community budget overspends
FINANCE: The community health directorate of Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust is overspent on district nursing by £137,000 and by £72,000 on enteral feeds, and is experiencing pressure on inpatient wards and minor injury units.
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HSJ Local
North Somerset failing incomplete pathways target
PERFORMANCE: NHS North Somerset is failing the target for 92 per cent of patients to have been treated within 18 weeks.
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HSJ Local
Bristol children's services contract set to be extended
COMMERCIAL: NHS Bristol and NHS South Gloucestershire have agreed to ask North Bristol Trust to extend their contract for provding children’s services fro two years.
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HSJ Local
Bristol DVT contract extended
COMMERCIAL: The Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS Bristol have agreed a 12 month extension to a contract for a community deep vein thrombosis service in the northern areas of the city.
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HSJ Local
Avon and Wiltshire appoints new chief executive
WORKFORCE: Avon and Wiltshire Partnership Trust has appointed current Devon Partnership Trust boss Iain Tulley as its new chief executive.
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HSJ Local
Ruling in PCT's favour in Dorset AQP row
COMMERCIAL: The Independent Reconfiguration Panel has dismissed a complaint about NHS Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset’s handling of the any qualified provider process. However, providers remain concerned about the pricing of dermatology services.