All UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BRISTOL NHS TRUST articles – Page 6
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HSJ LocalRecruitment struggle spells end for franchise rescue
The struggle of England’s smallest acute trust to recruit consultants played a major role in the decision to ditch its search for an independent sector management franchise to take it over, HSJ has been told.
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NewsSecond trust abandons private franchise option
A second district general hospital trust has ruled out being run by a private company under a franchise agreement.
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HSJ Local
Capita wins Bristol pathology software contract
COMMERCIAL: A trio of acute trusts have signed an eight-year contract with outsourcing giant Capita and software provider Clinisys to supply laboratory information system for their pathology services.
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NewsExclusive: Specialised commissioning overspend tops £450m
NHS England was set to blow its budget for specialised services by at least £450m in 2013-14, largely due to “predictable” overspends at acute hospitals.
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NewsHSJ Live 27.03.2014: Competition to run district general hospital is abandoned
George Eliot tender process dropped, and the rest of today’s comment and news
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CommentMy advice on Bristol: we have come a long way
Chief executive responds to Maria Von Hildebrand
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HSJ LocalExclusive: University Hospitals Bristol 'inured' to impact of failings
An adviser to the national review of children’s heart surgery has warned recent failings at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children “echo” those which led to a public inquiry almost 20 years ago.
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CommentMy advice to Bristol heart parents: consider another hospital
The unit lacks direction and leadership
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HSJ LocalNew review of children's heart surgery in Bristol
The chair of the high profile public inquiry into paediatric heart surgery in Bristol is to lead a new review into the deaths of a number of children with heart problems at University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
UHBristol fails cancer target after 'service swap'
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust failed the 62 day cancer target after it ceased to provide breast and urology services.
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NewsOFT to rule on key pathology mergers as another project collapses
Fresh evidence has emerged of the impact competition probes are having on plans to reconfigure services after Office of Fair Trading investigations were cited as barriers to two major pathology reorganisations.
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HSJ Local
Ambulance handovers still big problem at North Bristol
PERFORMANCE: Almost half of ambulances arriving at North Bristol Trust in the last week of August waited more than 15 minutes to handover their patient to hospital staff.
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HSJ Local
University Hospitals Bristol takes on new research role
CLINICAL RESEARCH: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust has been appointed to run a local branch of the National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network, it has been announced.
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NewsConcern over Monitor's Bristol 'merger' decision
Monitor has concluded that quality improvements borne of a recent reconfiguration of acute services in Bristol are not sufficient to outweigh the loss of patient choice resulting from the “merger”. The competition regulator said the decision would have “important considerations” for the “wider health system”.
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HSJ Local
Monitor given more time to consider Bristol service swaps
STRUCTURE: The Department of Health has granted Monitor more time to consider whether the benefits of service swaps between Bristol’s two acute trusts outweigh the loss of competition.
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HSJ Local
Bristol based researchers get £9m funding boost
RESEARCH: A team of health researchers based at University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust have been given £9m by the National Institute of Health Research.
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HSJ Local
High levels of cancelled operations in Bristol
PERFORMANCE: Continuing pressure on acute hospital beds in Bristol has led to high levels of cancelled operations, CCG board papers report.
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HSJ Local
Plans for Bristol and Bath vascular network
STRUCTURE: North Bristol Trust’s Southmead hospital is likely to be the centre of a new vascular network across Bristol, Bath, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.