All THE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST articles – Page 8
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HSJ Local
Newcastle FT exceeds C Diff threshold in 2013-14
PERFORMANCE: Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust reported 86 cases of C difficile in 2013-14, exceeding its threshold of 66, according to papers discussed at the June meeting of Gateshead, Newcastle North and and East and Newcastle West CCGs.
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HSJ Local
Newcastle FT fails to meet nursing staffing levels
WORKFORCE: Planned nurse staffing levels were not met for 19 per cent of inpatient shifts at Newcastle Upon Tyne Foundation Trust in April, according to a paper discussed at its May board meeting.
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HSJ Knowledge
Four hours in A&E: what the target tells us about trusts
Does performance reflect the leadership?
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Comment
'An irreversible shift in power was long overdue': 10 years of FTs
Milburn, Bennett and more review the sector
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News
Uncertain future for Project Diamond funding
The future of funding for highly specialist treatments in various hospitals has been thrown into uncertainty after the Department of Health decided to stop providing a £62m budget that supplements it.
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HSJ Knowledge
Spending to save: The innovative response to the Francis report for the nursing workforce
How the focus on clinical practice is bringing about new ways of working at leading trusts
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News
HSJ Live 10.02.2014 Vasco-Knight suspended with immediate effect
The chief executive of South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust, accused of “nepotism” by two whistleblowers, has been suspended, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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News
FT boards to be independently reviewed every three years
Monitor has detailed how it expects foundation trusts to arrange external reviews of their board’s effectiveness every three years.
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HSJ Local
Legal challenge issued after out-of-hours firm loses bids
A provider of GP out-of-hours services is taking legal action after it lost bids in two out of three areas where they being tendered.
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News
Leading foundation trusts explore moves into primary care
Two of the most powerful acute and tertiary trusts in the country are looking to expand into providing primary care to establish vertically integrated provider organisations, HSJ has discovered.
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HSJ Local
Oxford gets AHSC status, but Birmingham and Newcastle fail
Newcastle and Birmingham have failed in their attempts to become academic health science centres, although Oxford’s bid has succeeded.
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News
Three applicants seek academic health science centre status
Three partnerships between hospital trusts and medical schools are bidding to be accredited as academic health science centres, HSJ understands.
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News
Regional hospitals push for funding equality with London
A group of regional teaching hospitals is pushing NHS England to guarantee its members the same level of financial support as their London counterparts receive under the Project Diamond programme, HSJ has discovered.
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HSJ Local
Newcastle FT governors announced
WORKFORCE: Election results for the council of governors for The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have been announced.
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News
High cost of fines for long waits revealed
English hospitals would have been fined £227m in 2012 if they had been subjected to the penalty regime written into their contracts for the current financial year, according to analysis shared exclusively with HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Newcastle FT chief exec hits out at 'legal procrastination'
STRUCTURE: The chief executive of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Sir Leonard Fenwick, has issued a statement following the High Court review on children’s heart surgery services.
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HSJ Local
Savile affair disrupts Newcastle patient experience checks
PERFORMANCE: The Jimmy Savile affair and the need for a protocol for visits to wards has affected how a working group assessing patient experience in Newcastle’s hospitals has worked.
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HSJ Local
Newcastle ahead of plan in Jan
FINANCE: Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust had made a surplus of £23.3m at the end of January – £13.7m ahead of plan.