All WESTON AREA HEALTH NHS TRUST articles – Page 4
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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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HSJ Local
CQC lifts concerns at Weston
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has found Weston Area Health Trust is now meeting all standards for acute trusts.
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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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NewsNursing shortage drives hospitals overseas
More than a third of hospital trusts have turned to actively recruiting nurses from overseas as they struggle to keep wards adequately staffed, it has emerged.
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HSJ Local
South West hospitals perform well against SHMI
PERFORMANCE: Five trusts in the south west had higher than expected mortality under the standardised hospital mortality indicator.
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HSJ Local
New chair for Weston brings 'change experience'
WORKFORCE: A former managing director of Debenhams has been confirmed as the new chair of Weston Area Health Trust by the The NHS Trust Development Authority.
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HSJ Local
CQC lifts concerns about Weston
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has lifted the three warning notices it placed on Weston Area Health Trust earlier this year.
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HSJ Local
Weston goes overseas to recruit nurses
WORKFORCE: Weston Area Health Trust has recruited 44 registered nurses from Spain.
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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.
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HSJ Local
Weston reorganises management structure
STRUCTURE: Weston Area Health Trust has reorganised its management structure from three divisions into two.
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HSJ Local
Mental health trust admits it is unable to win FT status alone
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust has become the latest NHS provider to admit it will not be able to win foundation trust status independently.
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HSJ Local
Weston to recruit more nurses
WORKFORCE: Weston Area Health Trust’s board has agreed to fund an additional 62.6 full time equivalent nurses and healthcare assistants to improve patient safety and patient experience.
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News
Flory: Francis has moved an all-FT NHS back two years
The consequences of the Francis inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire care scandal have pushed back the process of getting all NHS providers to foundation trust status by two years, David Flory has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Two trusts say private sector franchise an option
STRUCTURE: Two small provider trusts - both of which have aggressively pursued service and organisational integration - have indicated they may form partnerships with the independent sector.
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HSJ Local
Weston opens extra beds as emergency admissions rise
PERFORMANCE: Weston Area Health Trust has opened an additional ward to cope with increasing demand over the winter months.
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HSJ Local
Weston now compliant with CQC standards on patient discharge
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has judged Weston Area Health Trust is now compliant with requirements to co-operate with other providers.
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BlogsOrthopaedics scrapes inside waiting target for first time
Long waits are down again, but the total number waiting is a bit higher than usual. This will become worrying, if it carries on.
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NewsDistrict general hospitals top efficiency league
District general hospitals are the most clinically efficient in the NHS, a major study has revealed.
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HSJ LocalWeston abandons ambition to form integrated care organisation
STRUCTURE: Plans for an integrated care organisation incorporating England’s smallest acute have been abandoned, it has been confirmed.
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NewsNorth Somerset integration plan hits the rocks
Plans to create a new integrated foundation trust in North Somerset are looking increasingly unlikely to succeed due to the scale of the financial challenge involved, HSJ has learned.