All West Midlands articles – Page 87
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HSJ Local
Assura win Coventry community services contract
STRUCTURE: Assura Coventry have won a contract to provide the last remaining primary care trust-run community service centres in the Arden cluster area.
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HSJ Local
Mid Staffs medical director announces resignation
WORKFORCE: The medical director of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has announced he is to resign, less than six months before the end of his contract.
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HSJ Local
Northants and Milton Keynes performance under closer SHA scrutiny
PERFORMANCE: NHS Midlands and East has stepped up its monitoring of the Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes primary care trust cluster amid substandard performance in A&E and urgent care.
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HSJ Local
Coventry and Warwickshire faces 'significant underdelivery' of CIPs
FINANCE: Significant under delivery of the cost improvement programme means that only £20m of the £28m target is now forecast to be achieved.
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HSJ Local
George Eliot Trust awards itself amber-red governance rating
PERFORMANCE: George Eliot Hospital Trust’s self-assessed governance risk rating for quarter four is amber-red, after the trust missed targets on C difficile and accident and emergency care.
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HSJ Local
Rising demand leads to rising agency spend at George Eliot
WORKFORCE: High levels of demand has led to a rise in demand for agency staff at George Eliot Hospital Trust.
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HSJ Local
Worcestershire's stroke performance a 'concern'
PERFORMANCE: NHS Worcestershire’s performance on a stroke target is “of concern” to NHS Midlands and East.
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HSJ Local
George Eliot off target on surplus
FINANCE: George Eliot Hospital Trust has reported an £8,000 surplus - £842,000 worse than planned and in psite of year-to-date income being £1.3m higher than expected.
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News
Treasury hints at winners and losers under local pay
Local pay bargaining could raise the salaries of staff in regional “hotspots” but parts of the West Midlands, Yorkshire, west Scotland and Wales may lose out, Treasury documents suggest.
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HSJ Local
Wye Valley facing serious in-year financial pressures
FINANCE: Serious underachievement of planned savings, combined with expenditure pressures and lower than forecast income levels, have led to significant in-year financial pressures.
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HSJ Local
Pressure on Worcestershire Acute over FT ambitions
STRUCTURE: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust will be subject to “first level national escalation” after withdrawing from the Monitor assessment process.
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HSJ Local
Shrewsbury and Telford reports first surplus of the year
FINANCE: Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals Trust recorded a surplus for the first time in the year at the end of January amounting to £123,000.
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PCTs must not focus on ‘fantastic’ pasts
Handover documents produced by primary care trusts have focused too much on past achievements and not enough on concerns for the future, the official overseeing the transition to the new commissioning system has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Shrewsbury and Telford's reconfiguration receives £35m of DH cash
FINANCE: Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust is being given £35m from the Department of Health to spend on a planned reconfiguration of services.
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HSJ Local
Birmingham Women's to get £3.2m to expand capacity
FINANCE: Birmingham Women’s Foundation Trust is set to receive £3.2m to spend on increasing maternity capacity.
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HSJ Local
Royal Wolverhampton's QIPP scheme gets £3m boost
FINANCE: The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals Trust is to receive £3m of central money to spend on a heat and power plant to support Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention targets.
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HSJ Local
Trust runs up £5.4m deficit
FINANCE: University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire Trust was running at a £5.4m year to date deficit at the end of January, with its cost improvement plan £7m behind schedule.
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HSJ Local
Five per cent of Coventry and Warwickshire A and E patients wait over ten hours
PERFORMANCE: Five per cent of accident and emergency patients who were admitted to University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire Trust have waited for more than 10 hours before being admitted for treatment.
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HSJ Local
Council cash blamed for delayed transfers of care at Coventry and Warwickshire
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire is reporting a rise in delayed transfers of care, with part of the problem blamed on council funding
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HSJ Local
New director of operations for Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt FT
WORKFORCE: Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Val Doyle as its new director of operations.