All West Midlands articles – Page 67
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HSJ Local
Ambitious plan seeks to reduce admissions by 12,000
An ambitious project has been launched in Staffordshire in an attempt to reduce the level of non-elective admissions to the University Hospital of North Staffordshire by almost 12,000 over the next three years.
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HSJ Local
CCG leader voices anger over specialised service budget transfer
FINANCE: Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group has expressed irritation at NHS England’s decision to reduce the CCG’s budget by £3.4m in a transfer to specialised services.
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HSJ Local
George Eliot Hospital Trust appoints finance director
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust has appointed Shahana Khan as its director of finance
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News
Former Mid Staffs chief nurse given caution
A former chief nurse at scandal-hit Stafford Hospital has received a five year caution after being found guilty of exposing patients to danger.
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HSJ Local
Coventry and Warwickshire trust slips on cancer waits
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire has failed to hit its cancer waiting time target for three months in a row.
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News
Exclusive: Carter laments slow progress on pathology reform
The author of an influential review of pathology services has expressed disappointment at the slow pace of reform but said he had not yet “given up hope” it can be achieved.
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HSJ Local
Heart of England considers inpatient and surgery reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: One of the largest acute trusts in the Midlands has begun a review of surgery and inpatient services across its three sites, with a view to ensuring their long term clinical and financial sustainability.
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HSJ Local
Mid Staffs asks neighbour for help to sustain A&E
WORKFORCE: Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has been forced to draft in two consultants from a neighbouring trust to maintain a safe service in its emergency department.
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News
Updated: administrators get extra time at Mid Staffs
The trust special administrators overseeing proposals to downgrade Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have been given extra time to prepare their final report and to agree on where funding for the proposals will come from.
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HSJ Knowledge
Make a link between mental and physical health services
Liaison psychiatry can help achieve parity between services
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HSJ Local
Trust in court over patient death
An NHS trust is to appear in court on Wednesday charged with safety breaches connected to the death of a diabetic patient.
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HSJ Local
Birmingham Children's Hospital hails feedback app
PERFORMANCE: Birmingham Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust has said an innovative new feedback app - which allows patients to make comments on how they are being treated in almost real-time – has been a success.
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HSJ Local
Mid Staffs finance director joins Morecambe Bay
WORKFORCE: Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust’s finance director is leaving to take up the role of director of finance and deputy chief executive at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust.
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News
Ambulance trusts step into breach to provide NHS 111
NHS ambulance services are to take on the temporary provision of NHS 111 in most of the areas where NHS Direct is pulling out of delivery, the health advice provider has announced.
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HSJ Knowledge
How the NHS can translate research evidence into better care
How CLAHRCs are improving practice
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HSJ Local
Worcestershire to open new radiotherapy centre
STRUCTURE: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust has said a brand new radiotherapy centre will open at the hospital in 2014.
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HSJ Local
Coventry and Warwickshire to bid to take over George Eliot
STRUCTURE: A financially challenged NHS trust is set to launch an attempt take over a struggling neighbour in a bid to secure the future of both over the long term, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Junior doctor numbers tripled at struggling A&E
Extra government funding will be used to trebled the number of junior doctors at the accident and emergency department of a trust affected by the closure of services at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, it has been announced.
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HSJ Local
GMC abandons case against four Mid Staffs doctors
WORKFORCE: The General Medical Council has abandoned fitness to practise investigations into four senior doctors at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust due to insufficient evidence.