All West Midlands articles – Page 58
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HSJ Local
A&E consultants resign en masse from trust
Five accident and emergency consultants have resigned from a troubled West Midlands acute trust across two hospitals, including all four consultants from one department.
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HSJ LocalSheffield organisations pitch £260m 'vanguard' care plan
STRUCTURE: Health and care organisations have agreed to pool £260m to redesign and commission services together in their application to become a “vanguard site” for the new models of care outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
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HSJ Local
Sheffield health and care FT heading for £2.4m surplus
FINANCES: Sheffield Health and Social Care Foundation Trust’s latest financial forecasts show that the organisation is heading for a surplus of £2.42m at the end of 2014-15.
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HSJ Local
Nursing shortages hit community services
WORKFORCE: A fifth of community nursing shifts were short staffed in December at Rotherham Foundation Trust, board papers show.
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HSJ Local
Harrogate highlights maternity staffing problem
WORKFORCE: Vacancies and sickness meant that only about half of planned support worker hours were filled in the delivery room at Harrogate and District Hospitals Foundation Trust in December.
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HSJ Local
Airedale FT opens new A&E department
STRUCTURE: New £6.4 million emergency department will improve privacy and bring dignity for vulnerable older patients, the foundation trust’s chief executive says.
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HSJ Local
Trust boosts services for looked after children following CQC criticism
PERFORMANCE: Humber NHS Foundation Trust has completed ’85 per cent’ of measures demanded by NHS inspectors to improve care for looked after children.
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HSJ Local
Sheffield CCG to review urgent care services
STRUCTURE: Sheffield CCG is to review the way urgent care services are run and structured across the city amid concerns that the current system is struggling with high levels of demand.
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NewsMidlands paramedic sentenced after hospital death
A West Midlands paramedic has been handed an eight month suspended sentence after failing to examine and start resuscitation on a man who collapsed outside a hospital emergency department.
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HSJ LocalMidlands trust asks former chair to pay back £10k
FINANCE: The Royal Wolverhampton Trust is attempting to claw back more than £10,000 paid to a previous chair because the payment was in breach of financial rules for trusts.
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HSJ LocalShrewsbury and Telford chief executive to retire
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust has announced he is retiring.
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HSJ LocalStafford Hospital inpatient surgery transferred
Surgical services and procedures requiring overnight inpatient stays have been transferred from the former Stafford Hospital to Royal Stoke University Hospital and Royal Wolverhampton Trust.
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News£35m nursing tech fund shared among 60 bidders
More than 60 bids by NHS and other care providers have received a share of the second tranche of nursing technology fund, an NHS England director has told HSJ.
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News'Hard evidence' special measures worked at Keogh trusts, say researchers
There is ‘hard evidence’ that the special measures regime has reduced death rates at the 11 Keogh trusts and potentially saved hundreds of lives, researchers have claimed.
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HSJ LocalExternal improvement director appointed at Heart of England
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has appointed an improvement director to help turn around Heart of England Foundation Trust.
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NewsRevealed: winners and losers of CCG support framework
Nearly 50 clinical commissioning groups will have to decide over the next month how they will access essential support services after NHS England decided their existing providers had no future.
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HSJ LocalRotherham FT leadership makes 'significant improvements'
PERFORMANCE: Rotherham Foundation Trust has made ‘significant improvements’ to how it is run, and is no longer in breach of its licence to provide services relating to governance, Monitor has said.
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Morecambe Bay hires new chief operating officer
WORKFORCE: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust has appointed a new chief operating officer.