All Yorkshire and the Humber articles – Page 21
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HSJ LocalChildren's mental health crisis centre aims to reduce A&E use
West Yorkshire mental health trust to provide overnight beds for children and young people suffering a mental health crisis First service of its kind in the region but it is expected to be rolled out across the West Yorkshire STP area Trust says the facility will reduce the number ...
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HSJ Local500 nurses in pipeline for large teaching hospital
Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust to hire 500 more nursing staff Chief executive Julian Hartley says £14m recruitment drive is to improve safe staffing levels CQC raised trust’s rating to good but says it requires improvement on safety One of the largest teaching hospitals in the country is planning ...
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HSJ LocalShortlist for new hospital site revealed
CCG announces three possible sites for new mental health hospital in York Possible locations include Bootham Park, Clifton Park and Haxby Road Shortlist announced as trust opens temporary ward for adult mental health patients Three sites have been shortlisted to be the location for a new mental health ...
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HSJ LocalIT crash trust had tech problems in pathology service since March
Automated pathology system suffered faults from March, letter reveals Problems led to 400 samples not being tested and a backlog of 2,000 tests at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust says the issue was unrelated to major hardware fault last month IT problems at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust’s blood sciences ...
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HSJ Local'Outstanding' CCG to make smokers and obese patients wait six months for surgery
Harrogate and Rural District CCG announces new measures to help it make £8.4m of savings Proposals include getting obese patients and smokers to lose weight or quit for six months before being considered for operations The CCG was one of 10 rated “outstanding” by NHS England in July ...
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HSJ LocalTrusts establish 'first of its kind' regional pathology venture
Two trusts have formed an innovative digital pathology partnership designed to secure sustainable, high quality services for the whole of east and south Yorkshire.
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HSJ LocalCommissioners plan children's surgery shake-up
Two district hospitals would stop providing hyper-acute stroke care and reduce access to paediatric surgery under a proposed shake up of services in Yorkshire.
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HSJ LocalHospital IT crash won't be resolved until end of the week
Leeds and Bradford trusts cancel 132 operations IT system may not be fully restored until the end of this week Other hospitals in Yorkshire now providing pathology services to Bradford hospital and Leeds GPs Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has said it has now successfully cleared a backlog of ...
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HSJ LocalIT failure leaves teaching hospital with 10,000 tests backlog
Leeds and Bradford trusts cancelling non-urgent operations IT system may not be up and running until the end of next week Test results are being hand delivered but some are going to the wrong place with incorrect patient information One of the country’s largest teaching hospitals faces a ...
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HSJ LocalGPs told to cancel blood tests after teaching trust's IT failure
CCGs tell all GPs in Leeds to cancel routine blood tests after hardware fault at Leeds Teaching Hospital GPs expect to have to recall some patients for testing as samples become unviable Fault is also affecting Bradford Teaching Hospitals and caused “critical” internal incident at Leeds All routine ...
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HSJ LocalIT crash causes 'critical incident' at major teaching hospital
Operations and appointments have been cancelled after a “critical” fault with Leeds Teaching Hospitals’ pathology IT system Test results are having to be hand delivered to clinical teams with significant impact on patient flow Fault is also affecting Bradford Teaching Hospitals and local GPs who use the trust’s pathology ...
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HSJ LocalYorkshire hospital trust chief steps down
LEADERSHIP: A south Yorkshire hospital trust chief executive has stepped down to spend more time with his family after nearly four years in the post.
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CommentCapitated budgets are a good deal for long term conditions
With the Year of Care capitation tariff attracting global interest, capitation budgets are becoming a mainstream need for seamless care of patients with long term conditions
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HSJ LocalMental health trust saves £2m by cutting out of area placements
Mental health trust has eliminated acute adult out of area placements due to lack of beds in the last four years Sheffield Health and Social Care FT has put the £2m savings into bolstering community services teams “Out of town bed nights” dropped from 2,939 to 188 from 2011-12 ...
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HSJ Local'Outstanding' CCG announces £8m savings target
Harrogate and Rural District CCG was given the top rating by NHS England last month CCG now says growing and ageing population is putting strain on its finances and it expects an £8.4m shortfall for 2016-17 FINANCE: A Yorkshire clinical commissioning group rated as outstanding last month has ...
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NewsHEE to re-run job appointment after royal college complaint
Health Education England has said it will re-run the appointment process for the head of Yorkshire and the Humber School of Radiology after the appointment of a radiographer led to complaints by a medical royal college.
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NewsRevealed: £6m spent on redundancies at closed CSUs
The bill for redundancies following the shutting of two commissioning support units reached more than £6m, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local'Confusion' over new policies led to trust's inadequate safety rating
Introduction of new policies “had not got the pace behind it should have” at Humber Foundation Trust, says nursing director Trust said policies had not filtered down to staff when CQC inspectors visited Inspectors rate trust as requires improvement overall and inadequate for safety QUALITY: Failure to filter ...
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HSJ LocalNew mental health crisis units designed to take strain off A&E
New mental health urgent crisis support unit opened near Bradford Shipley unit is the first of three designed to take pressure off A&E by directing mental health patients to other services Units funded through West Yorkshire Urgent Emergency Care Network vanguard SERVICE DESIGN: The first of three mental ...
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: when high expectations meet low morale
At a time of stagnating salaries and punishing workloads, how are NHS leaders helping staff cope?