All SUSSEX PARTNERSHIP NHS TRUST articles – Page 7
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New mental health service in Hastings and Rother
STRUCTURE: A new hub structure for delivering mental health services across Hastings and Rother was launched on 12 December.
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Sussex Partnership FT takes over Southern Cross home
STRUCTURE: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has taken over The Downs Nursing Home, Hove, from Southern Cross.
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Sussex Partnership records zero mixed sex breaches for September
PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust this month again recorded no breaches of the Department of Health’s guidelines on mixed sex accommodation.
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Sussex Partnership announces £3m upgrade of low secure facilities
FINANCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust’s board has agreed plans to improve and expand its secure mental health services in Chichester.
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Sussex Partnership directors pledge to balance books
FINANCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust has pledged to safeguard frontline services and deliver a balanced budget for 2011-12, despite facing “challenging times”.
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Sussex Partnership wins research grant
COMMERCIAL: Sussex Partnership FT has been awarded a major research grant to investigate whether a form of meditation can help people with schizophrenia who “hear voices”.
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Sussex Partnership issues £50m tender for informatics programme
COMMERCIAL: The mental health trust has issued a tender for the provision of its managed IT infrastructure and data management services.
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Sussex Partnership meeting all ‘priority indicators’
PERFORANCE: Sussex Partnership is meeting all its priority service indicators, its board of directors were told this month.
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CommentBig ambitions cause dilemma on the South East Coast
The South East Coast region is home to several large and ambitious mental health foundation trusts but evidence suggests that there has been a victim of one trust’s success.
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Sussex Partnership faced with fallout from closure of private unit
STRUCTURE: The foundation trust is relocating patients from a local independent hospital which is set to close in September.
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Seventeen South East Coast provider contracts signed off late
COMMERCIAL: A total of 17 providers in the South East Coast strategic health authority area did not have their 2011-12 provider/commissioner contracts signed off at the beginning of the year.
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Savings target already proving problem for Sussex Partnership FT
FINANCE: During the first month of 2011-12, the mental health foundation trust delivered savings of £377,000, which is £148,000 behind plan for April.
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FT chief exec returns to work and praises care at local acute trust
WORKFORCE: Lisa Rodrigues has returned to her post at the Sussex mental health FT after undergoing gallbladder surgery at a local acute hospital.
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Permanent assistant COO appointed at Sussex Partnership
WORKFORCE: the mental health foundation trust has confirmed the appointment of Andy Gray as assistant chief operating officer.
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Specialist mental health advice service for GPs piloted in Sussex
STRUCTURE: The trust is piloting a new service to offer local GPs access to specialist mental health advice.
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Sussex Partnership FT inherits 250 staff
WORKFORCE: The foundation trust boosted its workforce by 246 in April following its takeover of new services under the transforming community services programme.
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Sussex Partnership plans to recruit two nurse consultants
WORKFORCE: The mental health foundation trust intends to add two new nurse consultants to its workforce, according to its latest HR report.
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Sussex Partnership reports £5.2m surplus for 2010-11
FINANCE: The mental health foundation trust has reported finishing the 2010-11 financial year with a surplus of £5.2m, according to board papers.
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Sussex Partnership launches perinatal mental health service
STRUCTURE: The mental health FT is to launch a new service designed to help women in East and West Sussex who have mental illnesses during pregnancy and in the first year of their baby’s life.
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Interim chair appointed at Western Sussex Hospitals Trust
WORKFORCE: The Appointments Commission has confirmed the appointment of Mike Viggers as interim chair of Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust.