All UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST articles – Page 17
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Fifteen nurse hours per bed day at Shelford Group trusts
WORKFORCE: Research carried for the Shelford Group, which represents England’s most powerful teaching hospitals, shows each patient bed day accounts for an average of 15 nurse hours.
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UH Birmingham praised on VTE
RESEARCH: University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust has been named an “exemplar centre” for venous thromboembolism in recognition of its work on blood clot prevention.
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NewsMost powerful hospital trusts ask for more funding
England’s 10 most prestigious teaching and research hospital trusts have asked the Department of Health and the Treasury for a 10 per cent top-up to their tariff payments, HSJ can reveal.
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BBC to feature Birmingham liver research
RESEARCH: Pioneering research carried out at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham is to be featured on a BBC Radio 4 programme on liver disease.
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NewsExpand independent sector provision, says 'most powerful' hospital chief
The NHS’s most powerful hospital trust chief executive has used a HSJ interview to call for an expansion of independent sector provision.
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Bid for Birmingham 'medical quarter'
COMMERCIAL: Property developers and a leading healthcare technology firm have joined forced to try and create a ‘medical quarter’ in Birmingham.
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Birmingham trust introduces new skin cancer drug
Two patients at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham were among the first in the country to start receiving a new anti-cancer drug within days of it being granted a licence.
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Increased income at Birmingham trust exceeds overspend
FINANCE: Clinical divisions at University Hospitals Birmingham reported a £1.5m favourable variance in divisional income against expenditure for 2011-12, due to healthcare income £13.3m more than expected.
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Birmingham FT £1.8m behind on CIP
FINANCE: University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust achieved 91 per cent of its £18.8m cost improvement plan savings in 2011-12.
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Lessons learned from war injuries
RESEARCH: Lessons learned by doctors and surgeons treating injured soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan in the past decade have been set out in a new report.
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: Birmingham and Solihull CCGs find their form
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of the key issues facing the NHS’s major health economies. This week: how the CCGs in Birmingham and Solihull are shaping up, and their plans to tackle QIPP.
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NewsExclusive: London and Manchester to get beam therapy investment
Andrew Lansley will tomorrow announce two hospitals that will offer Proton Beam Therapy for the treatment of cancer.
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NewsBirmingham chief executive made a dame in new year's honours
The chief executive of University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust has been made a dame in the new year’s honours list.
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Birmingham hospitals identify surgery reconfiguration benefits
STRUCTURE: A proposed service model for a single clinical team for vascular surgery in Birmingham has been identified by the trust as part of reconfiguration plans.
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Chief executive, University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust (New entry)
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UHB to become 'magnet' for pharma money and clinical research after hook-up with uni
COMMERCIAL: University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust and the University of Birmingham has today announced a joint working agreement to be known as Birmingham Health Partners (BHP).
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News30th annual HSJ Awards winners revealed
The 30th HSJ Awards took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London, recognising trusts and organisations for outstanding excellence in healthcare service and innovation across 18 key health categories.
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Plans approved for three trauma centres in West Midlands
STRUCTURE: Plans to reconfigure major trauma care in the West Midlands around three centres in Birmingham, Stoke and Coventry have been approved.
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NewsHospital death rate focus will disappear - Keogh
Interest in hospital mortality indicators will “wane” within three years as clinicians produce dozens of service-specific quality measures, the NHS medical director has predicted.
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NewsImproved hospital IT would save 'thousands' of lives
The extended and better use of IT could dramatically cut hospital deaths across England, a report claims, after a Birmingham trust saw deaths fall by 17 per cent in a 12-month period.