All UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST articles – Page 8
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Winter pressures hit elective work at Southampton trust
PERFORMANCE Winter pressures have caused elective work to be cancelled at University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, due to high bed occupancy caused by winter pressures.
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Cummings visits Southampton to learn about nursing innovations
CLINICAL RESEARCH: The NHS Commissioning Board’s chief nursing officer Jane Cummings has visited University Hospitals Southampton Foundation Trust to find out more about the trust’s bedside research.
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A quarter of Southampton trust CIPs are non recurrent
FINANCE: A quarter of University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust’s planned cost improvement savings are non recurrent.
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Older patients praise Southampton trust
PERFORMANCE: Ninety eight per cent of older people surveyed at University Hospitals Southampton Foundation Trust rated their care as good, very good or excellent.
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Salisbury appoints permanent chief exec
WORKFORCE: Peter HIll has been appointed as chief executive at Salisbury Foundation Trust.
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Southampton doctors trial new flu vaccine
CLINICAL RESEARCH: Doctors based in Southampton are trialing a new “four-part” vaccine which they hope will offer children much greater protection against flu viruses.
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Southampton FT plans £70m children's hospital
STRUCTURE: Plans for a new £70m children’s hospital have been revealed by University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust.
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Southampton consultant wins prize for flu vaccine research
RESEARCH: A consultant at Southampton General Hospital has been honoured following the publication of a paper on a universal vaccine for influenza.
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Southampton trust pioneers 'bedside clinics' for diabetes inpatients
RESEARCH: Clinicians in Southampton are piloting a new way of treating diabetes patients during hospital stays.
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Southampton trust pioneers new cerebral palsy rehab treatment
RESEARCH: A new rehabilitation programme pioneered in Southampton can halve the recovery time for children with cerebral palsy who have undergone hip surgery.
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Southampton research sheds light on recurrent miscarriages
RESEARCH: A study carried out by specialists in Southampton has found that women who suffer recurrent miscarriages may actually be “super fertile”.
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NewsOFT investigates NHS hospitals sharing price data
The Office of Fair Trading has obtained assurances from eight NHS trusts that they will cease sharing commercially sensitive information about their private patient unit prices, it revealed this morning.
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Research establishes gender link in allergy hereditary
RESEARCH: Clinicians at Southampton University Hospital Foundation Trust have discovered a child’s risk of developing an allergic disease is doubled if a parent of the same sex has suffered from it.
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Hampshire providers struggle on emergency target
PERFORMANCE: Providers in the Hampshire area have struggled to meet the four hour accident and emergency waiting times target in quarter one of 2012-13.
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Southampton will keep children's heart surgery
STRUCTURE: Children’s heart surgery services will be kept at the University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust after a national reconfiguration programme recommended three other units in England lose their services.
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NewsChildren's heart surgery to end at Royal Brompton
Managers at a hospital at the centre of a bitter legal row over plans to streamline paediatric heart services said they were baffled at Wednesday’s decision to stop it performing heart surgery on children.
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: acute demand outpacing supply on the south coast
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of key issues facing some of the major NHS health economies. This week’s HSJ Local Briefing looks at the Southampton and Portsmouth health economy, which has struggled to control rising demand for acute services.
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Southampton FT falls short on CIP
FINANCE: University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust began 2012-13 falling short of its cost improvement plan, amid ongoing concerns about activity levels.
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Southampton FT falls short on three performance measures
University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust reported poor performance for April on cancer waiting times, accident and emergency and referral to treatment times.
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Concern over A&E demand in Portsmouth and Southampton
PERFORMANCE: Emergency department waiting times have been identified as a “key performance concern” by the Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth primary care trust cluster.