All UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF MORECAMBE BAY NHS TRUST articles – Page 18
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NewsMorecambe Bay faces loss of vascular services
STRUCTURE: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust could lose up to £2m a year through commissioner plans to transfer its complex vascular surgery work to another trust, its board was warned last week.
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HSJ Local
Jackie Daniel to take Morecambe Bay chief exec job
WORKFORCE: Jackie Daniel, the chief executive of Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust, is moving to troubled foundation trust University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay from the start of August.
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NewsCQC criticises emergency care and leadership at Morecambe Bay
Regulators have called for improved standards and leadership at the troubled University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust.
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NewsMorecambe Bay withheld damning report from regulators, probe finds
Monitor is to toughen disclosure rules for would-be foundation trusts, after a probe found University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay withheld information that could have led regulators to discover its major care failures sooner.
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HSJ Local
Morecambe Bay forecasts £30m deficit for 2012-13
FINANCE: The trust is expecting to incur a deficit of around £30m in 2012-13, its latest finance report shows.
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HSJ Local
Cumbria misses RTT waiting target for Q1 2012-13
PERFORMANCE: Cumbria will not meet national referral to treatment waiting times standards for the first three months of 2012-13, due to a “backlog of patients waiting over 18 weeks”, its latest performance report states.
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NewsOmbudsman's claims on care quality complaint 'did not stand up '
An apparent failure to fully investigate a high profile complaint has led to a renewed call for changes to the system.
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HSJ LocalMorecambe Bay 'not sustainable' without reconfiguration, says new chief
Troubled foundation trust University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay “can’t work” in the future without the reconfiguration of key services, its new chief executive has told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: a healthcare crisis facing Cumbria
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of the key issues facing the NHS’s major health economies. This week, HSJ looks at the healthcare crisis in Cumbria.
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HSJ Local
FTs join forces on pathology services
STRUCTURE: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay FT and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals FT have announced plans to work together to develop pathology services in Cumbria and Lancashire.
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HSJ Local
MP calls for probe into regulator following Morecambe Bay scandal
PERFORMANCE: An MP has called for an inquiry into foundation trust regulator Monitor after its chairman admitted it was “very likely” there were deeper problems present at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay when it was granted FT status.
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NewsMonitor should toughen assessments following scandal - Bennett
Monitor’s executive chair has admitted it is “very likely” University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay had “deep-seated problems” at the time his organisation granted the trust foundation status.
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NewsPay freeze fails to prevent trust overspend on wages
The NHS pay freeze has failed to prevent acute hospitals from running up an estimated £300m year-to-date overspend on wage bills, an HSJ investigation has revealed.
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HSJ LocalNew Morecambe Bay chair reports gulf between clinicians and managers
WORKFORCE: The newly-installed chairman of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay this week said he had found a “massive gulf” between clinicians and managers at the troubled foundation trust.
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NewsTrusts pursue pay curbs for staff sickness
A tribunal decision that forced a trust to stop withholding pay from staff who take too much sick leave has failed to deter other organisations from pursuing similar policies, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Morecambe Bay incident ‘gold command’ may stand down
PERFORMANCE: NHS North of England will consider “in the immediate future” whether to stand down the strategic coordinating team that mobilised in response to patient safety issues at the Morecambe Bay trust, board papers state.
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HSJ Local
Morecambe Bay's chief quits
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of under fire University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust has quit.
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NewsMonitor intervenes to replace chair at underperforming trust
Monitor has stepped in to replace the chair of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust after three separate independent reviews last week revealed a catalogue of leadership and governance failures.
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HSJ Local
Mothers and babies still at 'significant' risk at Morecambe Bay
PERFORMANCE: The safety of mothers and babies at the foundation’s Furness General Hospital remains at “significant risk”, according to a new independent review commissioned by foundation trust regulator Monitor.
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HSJ Local
Regulator installs new chairman at troubled Morecambe Bay hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has invoked its powers of intervention to install a new chairman at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust, following rising concern about the quality of care and leadership at the foundation.