All South West articles – Page 71
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HSJ Local
Plymouth in top fifth for cancer patient experience
PERFORMANCE: NHS providers in Plymouth scored in the top 20 per cent in the country in the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey.
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HSJ Local
Royal Cornwall scores well on involving patients
PERFORMANCE: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust was one of the best performing trusts for cancer patients felling involved in decisions about their care, according to the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey.
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Royal Devon and Exeter gets middle ranking most cancer survey measures
PERFORMANCE: Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust scored in the top 20 per cent on 13 out of 70 measures in the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey.
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HSJ Local
Poole comes out on top in cancer survey
PERFORMANCE: Poole Hospital Foundation Trust has come out top in a key indicator for cancer care, with 94 per cent of patients rating their care excellent or very good.
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HSJ Local
New X-Ray machine for Isles of Scilly
STRUCTURE: Peninsula Community Health has installed a new x-ray machine at St Mary’s Hospital on the Isles of Scilly that means residents will no longer have to visit the mainland for an x-ray.
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HSJ Local
Complaints fall at Yeovil FT
PERFORMANCE: Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust saw a 13 per cent fall in the number of formal complaints received in 2011-12 comparted with the prevoius year.
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Regional pay consortium claims it can save 6,000 jobs
More than 6,000 NHS “jobs” in the South West could be saved if major changes go ahead to staff pay, and terms and conditions, it has been claimed.
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HSJ Local
UHBristol fails to treat colo-rectal cancer patients sensitively
PERFORMANCE: A fifth of cancer patients at University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust felt they were not told about their diagnosis senstively enough, the result of the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey for 2011-12 reveal.
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HSJ Local
Northern Devon cancer patients raise privacy concerns
PERFORMANCE: Just 81 per cent of cancer patients at Northern Devon Healthcare Trust felt they were told about their diagnosis sensitively, according to the results of the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey.
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HSJ Local
North Bristol Trust cancer patients complain of cancelled procedures
PERFORMANCE: North Bristol Trust was in the worst performing 20 per cent of trusts for changing admission dates for cancer patients, according to the results of the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey for 2011-12.
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News
Child abuse risk at walk-in centres
“Significant and worrying gaps” in the way some NHS walk-in centres operate risks child abuse going undetected, a study obtained by HSJ has warned.
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HSJ Local
Royal Cornwall issued with contract notice
PERFORMANCE: NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly has issued a contract notice to Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust for poor performance against the four hour accident and emergency target in in April and May.
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HSJ Local
Mixed bag for Great Western doctors in national cancer survey
PERFORMANCE: Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust scored was among the 20 per cent of highest scoring trusts when cancer patients were asked whether doctors had talked in front of them as if they were not there.
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HSJ Local
Cancer patients report too few nurses at Gloucestershire Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Almost half of cancer patients at Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust thought there were not always enough nurses on duty, according to the results of the National Cancer Patient Experience survey.
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HSJ Local
High proportion of Dorset cancer patients 'not involved' in care
PERFORMANCE: Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust scored poorly on measures of involving patients in their care in the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey for 2011-12.
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HSJ Local
Four SW trusts sign up to research on admissions
RESEARCH: Four acute trusts in the South West are taking part in a study that aims to identify how decision making and clinical experience can reduce unnecessary admissions.
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HSJ Local
Neglect contributed to death of patient at Somerset community hospital
PERFORMANCE: A patient who choked to death at a hospital run by Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust had been neglected by staff, a coroner has ruled.
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HSJ Local
New £33m community hospital gets go ahead
STRUCTURE: NHS Somerset has approved the full business case for a £33m community hospital rebuild.
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HSJ Local
Somerset Partnership reports high levels of emergency readmissions
PERFORMANCE: More than 12 per cent of psychiatric patients at Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust were readmitted as a psychiatric emergency within 28 days of discharge during June 2012.
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Somerset Partnership in joint working discussions
STRUCTURE: The chair and chief executive of Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust have met with their counterparts at Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust to discuss potential for joint working.