All Yorkshire and the Humber articles – Page 52
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HSJ KnowledgeAdded value in student nurse placements
A project for undergraduates has helped nurture integrated working
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Strike threat at Yorkshire Ambulance Service
WORKFORCE: Hundreds of frontline staff at an ambulance trust could be taking strike action by the end of the month.
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NHS Leeds PCT expects £23m surplus
NHS Leeds PCT is expected to record a year-end surplus of £23.2 million, in line with the control total agreed with the SHA.
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Bradford Care Trust took 'appropriate' action over homicide
PERFORMANCE: An independent review into a homicide committed by a service user of Bradford District Care Trust’s mental health services has determined that actions taken to investigate the incident were appropriate.
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Harrogate FT records below target suplus
FINANCE: Harrogate and District Foundation Trust had a surplus of £1.7m after the first eight months of the financial year - £1.2m less than planned.
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Hull and East Yorks forecasts £3.5m surplus
FINANCE: Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust is forecasting a surplus of £3.5m this financial year - £1.3m behind its original plans.
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Leeds Hospitals short of emergency registrars
PERFORMANCE: A shortage of emergency medicine specialty registrars is one of the factors in poor A&E performance at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust. A report to the trust board said that there was a 60 per cent vacancy rate for these posts across the trust. Consultants are working nights, locum doctors ...
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Leeds Hospitals appoints COO and medical and nursing directors
WORKFORCE: Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has made three key board appointments.
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A&E wait problems at Airedale FT
PERFORMANCE: Airedale Foundation Trust could be found in significant breach of its authorisation after it failed to meet the 95 per cent performance target for treating A&E patients in the third quarter, coming in at 94.6 per cent.
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Airedale identifies need to reuce operating costs
FINANCE: Airedale Foundation Trust cannot sustain the current level of operating costs within its income as it moves into 2013-14, the board has been warned
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New NED at Airedale Foundation Trust
WORKFORCE: Retired consultant in chemical pathology Michael Toop has joined Airedale Foundation Trust as a non-executive director.
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Uphill battle to meet A&E targets at Barnsley Hospital
PERFORMANCE: Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust will only achieve the 95 per cent target for treating patients within four hours at A&E if it can achieve 98 per cent in the last two months of the year, the trust board heard.
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Barnsley FT plans to cut mortality rates
PERFORMANCE: Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust is hoping to reduce its mortality rates by this autumn. A package of work – including looking at coding, reviewing never events, and an external scrutiny of surgical site infections – is ongoing. The trust also has a project on early warning systems and recognising ...
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Barnsley installs new CT scanner funded by local residents
SERVICES: A new CT scanner has been installed at Barnsley Hospital – thanks to the generosity of a local couple who left a legacy of £600,000. Mary Tasker died in 2011 and her husband, local photographer Ted, had died in 1989.
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Twenty cancer wait breaches at Mid Yorks
PERFORMANCE: Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust has had 20 breaches of the 62 day cancer referral to treatment target in January.
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Mid Yorks cuts deficit prediction to £24m
FINANCE: The projected deficit at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust has been cut to £23.9m from £26m, the trust board has been told.
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Mid Yorkshire receives 181 MARS applications
WORKFORCE: 181 members of staff at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust have applied for voluntary redundancy under the MARS2 scheme.
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Big surplus at Calderdale & Huddersfield
FINANCE: Overperformance on contracts, savings from unfilled vacancies and some non-recurrent income has meant that Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust had a £4.9m surplus at the end of month 10, against a plan of £3.3m. The trust is now predicting it will end the year with a surplus of £3.4m, ...
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Calderdale and Huddersfield looks to reserves for savings
FINANCE: More than a fifth of Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust’s efficiency savings target of £14.2m had still to be identified at the end of month ten and will be met out of reserves. However, the board was told that all but £1.6m of the identified savings were low risk, ...
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Rotherham reduces job cut plans
A hospital trust which said it would need to cut posts by 750 just six months ago is now saying that it will only need to axe 22 whole time equivalent posts among clinical and frontline staff.