All South West articles – Page 83
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Wiltshire PCT downgrades surplus forecast
FINANCE: NHS Wiltshire is no longer able to make a £6.5m surplus by the end of the financial year and has reduced its forecast to £2m.
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Endoscopy waits under scrutiny at Gloucestershire acute trust
PERFORMANCE: Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust had 96 people waiting more than six weeks for endoscopy at the end of September.
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QIPP posing problem for NHS Gloucestershire
FINANCE: NHS Gloucestershire is predicting a £6.3m overspend with Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust at year-end - although the overspend could be as high as £9m if quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings do not materialise.
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Activity falls at Yeovil
PERFORMANCE: Activity at Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust is behind plan by an average of 3 per cent.
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Yeovil struggles to recruit doctors to A&E
WORKFORCE: Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust is forming a strategic alliance with a neighbouring trust to help tackle recruitment problems in accident and emergency.
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Royal Cornwall Hospital fined over 18 weeks backlog
PERFORMANCE: The Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust has been fined nearly £1m so far this year for failing to meet referral-to-treatment times.
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NHS Cornwall slipping on QIPP
FINANCE: NHS Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly is seeing a worrying slippage on QIPP schemes in both acute and primary care.
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Two soft tissue sarcoma surgery sites for Cornwall
STRUCTURE: Services for adult patients with soft tissue sarcomas are to be provided at two centres in the South West Peninsula - rather than being concentrated on just one site.
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Acute activity sparks overspend forecast at Bath and NE Somerset
FINANCE: NHS Bath and North East Somerset is heading for an overspend of £5.2m on its commissioned services at year end - due mainly to more activity in the acute sector.
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Comment
South West shouts about its success as handover looms
No one could accuse NHS South West’s 133-page handover document, published last week, of being anything less than exhaustive.
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Delayed discharges force Royal Devon to cut operations
PERFORMANCE: Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust was forced to reduce elective procedures due to the high number of patients waiting for suitable ongoing care outside hospital.
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Taunton gets £12m loan for rebuild
FINANCE: Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust has received a £12m loan from the NHS financing facility to enable the building of five new wards.
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Gloucestershire fails four hour A&E standard
PERFORMANCE: Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust is failing the four hour accident and emergency target.
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Salisbury appoints new chief executive
WORKFORCE: Salisbury Foundation Trust has appointed a new chief executive.
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CQC holds up Devon Partnership FT timetable
PERFORMANCE: Devon Partnership Trust’s foundation trust application has been delayed due to a responsive review by the Care Quality Commission.
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Cornwall Partnership governance risk downgraded
PERFORMANCE: Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust’s Monitor governance rating has been downgraded to amber/red owing to Care Quality Commision concerns about services.
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Eleven homicides investigated at AWP
PERFORMANCE: Avon and Wiltshire Partnership Trust is subject to 11 investigations into homicides by NHS South West, more than any other mental health trust in the region.
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NHS South West exceeds planned surplus
FINANCE: NHS South West delivered a surplus for NHS organisations in the region £10m higher than planned.
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Poole and Royal Bournemouth agree next step towards merger
STRUCTURE: The boards of Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals and Poole Hospital foundation trusts have agreed to pursue a merger in order to ensure the retention of “sustainable local services”.
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AWP criticised over patient homicides
PERFORMANCE: Avon and Wiltshire Partnership Trust has been criticised for failing in the care of two patients from Swindon who went on to kill people within months of each other.