All South West articles – Page 73
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Plymouth Community Healthcare plans bed closures
STRUCTURE: Plymouth Community Healthcare Trust is consulting on changes to mental health recovery services that could involve the closure of nine beds.
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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.
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Plymouth Hospitals chief executive to leave
WORKFORCE: Plymouth Hospitals Trust acting chief executive Helen O’Shea has announced she will be leaving to take up a new role in Jersey.
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North Bristol Trust management criticised over new IT system
North Bristol Trust’s management failed to recognise the scale of change involved in switching to a new patient record system, leading to months of chaos in theatres and outpatients, an independent review has found.
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NHS South Gloucestershire pilots reablement with partners
STUCTURE: NHS South Gloucestershire is working with South Gloucestershire Council and local older people’s charity Brunelcare to pilot a new reablement service.
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Private provider to deal with Gloucestershire Hospitals test backlog
PERFORMANCE: An independent provider has been commissioned to run weekend lists for endoscopies after Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust repeatedly breached the target.
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North Bristol fails stroke target
PERFORMANCE: Just 74.2 per cent of stroke patients at North Bristol Trust spent 90 per cent of their time on a stroke unit in April against a target of 80 per cent.
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Bristol pathology plans approved
STRUCTURE: Plans to consolidate pathology services in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire have won the backing of the national clinical director for pathology.
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Serco out-of-hours service failing four CQC standards
A GP out-of-hours service run by Serco was understaffed and possibly overstating its performance, an investigation by the Care Quality Commission has found.
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Taunton and Somerset partners with local college
WORKFORCE: Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust is supporting the training of 30 new assistant practitioners in partnership with a local college.
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Candidates for Plymouth top job 'insufficiently strong'
WORKFORCE: Interviews for a new chief executive for Plymouth Hospitals Trust have been postponed due to an “insufficiently strong” field of candidates.
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Bristol cluster awards OoH contract
COMMERCIAL: The Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire primary care trust cluster has awarded the contract for GP out of hours service to Brisdoc.
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Royal Cornwall reports performance against safety thermometer
PERFORMANCE: Patient safety thermometer data collected by Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust shows 92 per cent of patients treated at the trust during the first three months of 2012-13 were harm free.
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Royal Cornwall struggles with A&E performance
PERFORMANCE: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust failed the accident and emergency four hour standard during the first two months of 2012-13.
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Northern Devon nurse gets national policy role
WORKFORCE: A senior nurse from Northern Devon Healthcare Trust has been elected onto the national committee of the Community Hospitals Association.
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Virgin set to run children's services in Devon
COMMERCIAL: Virgin Care has been named preferred bidder for a children’s services contract worth £44m a year, it has been announced.
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Yeovil finished year ahead of plan on surplus
FINANCE: Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust finished the year with a surplus of £993,000, £718,000 more than planned.
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SW pay consortium to press ahead with Agenda for Change plans
A consortium of 19 NHS trusts in the South West has met for the first time and agreed to press ahead with plans to break away from Agenda for Change.
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Avon and Wiltshire chief steps down
WORKFORCE: Laura McMurtrie, chief executive of the troubled Avon and Wiltshire Partnership Trust, has announced she is to step down following a period of ill health.
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South Glos social enterprise reduces admissions
PERFORMANCE: The restructuring of South Gloucestershire Community Health Services during 2011-12 helped to prevent 1,189 hospital admissions, a report to the board of NHS South Gloucestershire said.