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Top gay equality ranking for Sussex Partnership
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Partnership has come top in the first ever Healthcare Equality Index, published by Stonewall to measure an organisation’s commitment to delivering services to the lesbian, gay and bisexual community.
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Sustainability drive reaps savings for Sussex Community Trust
FINANCE: The drive towards more sustainable healthcare is generating benefits for Sussex Community Trust, its board has been told.
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Sussex Community Trust expects to hit surplus target
FINANCE: Sussex Community Trust is still predicting it will make its planned surplus of £1.89m for the year – despite a £4m shortfall in its quality, innovation productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings programme.
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Kent acute trusts overpaid staff by £3m
FINANCE: Nurses and doctors at all four trusts in Kent have been overpaid by almost £3m since 2007, an investigation has revealed.
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Leadership change at Surrey and Sussex CSU
WORKFORCE: A new interim managing director has been appointed at Surrey and Sussex Commissioning Support Unit.
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FT pipeline progress for Sussex Community Trust
STRUCTURE: Sussex Community Trust has been given the green light to move forward to the next stage of its preparations to achieve foundation status in 2014.
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Royal Surrey medic wins NICE scholarship
WORKFORCE: Dr Matthew Rogers a year-five specialty trainee in haematology has been awarded a scholarship by the National Insitutute for Health and Care Excellence.
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QVH nursing director made NICE fellow
WORKFORCE: Amanda Parker, director of nursing, Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been made a NICE Fellow for 2013-16.
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Brighton hospitals may move chemotherapy into community
SERVICES: Sussex cancer patients could be offered chemotherapy in the community to reduce the pressure at hospitals.
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£30m efficiency requirement in 2013-14 for Brighton Hospitals
FINANCE: Brighton and Sussex Hospitals Trust will have to make £30m of savings in the next financial year to deliver a one per cent surplus.
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Sussex Community Trust redesigns safeguarding training
WORKFORCE: Sussex Community Trust is redesigning some of its training in safeguarding children because of unacceptably low number of staff being appropriately trained.
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Trust investigates streptococcal infections at Crawley Hospital
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Community Trust is investigating how nine patients on a ward at Crawley Hospital came to contract a group A streptococcal (GAS) infection.
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Kent and Medway reports QIPP slip
FINANCE: Only 55 per cent of planned QIPP savings of £57m were delivered in Kent and Medway to the end of January.
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Long waits for CAMH in Kent and Medway
PERFORMANCE: Young people with mental health problems in Kent are having to wait more than six months for a specialist assessment.
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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells 'grossly' over activity
FINANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust is ‘grossly’ overperforming on contracts with its main commissioners with a £26m overspend to the end of month 11. The vast majority of this is with West Kent PCT.
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Eastbourne CCG requires £18.4m savings next year
FINANCE: Eastbourne. Hailsham and Seaford CCG will need to make £18.4m savings in the next financial year – most of that in the acute sector.
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BSUH within C Difficile target
PERFORMANCE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has seen higher rates of C Difficile infection in February and March although it remains well within its target of no more than 71 cases for the year at just 46.
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Brighton and Sussex reconsidering whistleblowing policy
WORKFORCE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust is considering reshaping its approach to whistleblowing.
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South East Ambulance deals with more patients over phone
SERVICES: A new method of triaging and responding to calls to the ambulance service has seen more patients dealt with over the phone – but has not always been popular with patients.
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Severe A&E pressure at Brighton and Sussex
PERFORMANCE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has had 34 12 hour trolley waits since January – and has had to declare ‘major incidents’ twice because of the severe pressure on A&E.