All Health Service Journal articles in 12 April 2013 – Page 4
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HSJ Local
West Hertfordshire falls behind on complaints responses
PERFORMANCE: Complaints ranging from an elderly patient pursued by debt collectors over a parking ticket to a pregnant woman who was told to “stop wasting hospital time” and subsequently had a stillbirth were among 20 complaints discussed at West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust board meeting.
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HSJ KnowledgeCCGs must act now to meet NHS carbon targets
The new groups have a key role in to play in NHS sustainability
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HSJ Local
Basildon and Thurrock needs £14m savings to break even in 2013-14
FINANCE: Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust needs to make savings of over five per cent - or around £14m - to break even in 2013-14.
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HSJ Local
Sumara appointed Bolton chief as trust reports 'encouraging' coding review findings
PERFORMANCE: Antony Sumara has been appointed as interim chief executive at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust. In a statement trust chair David Wakefield said that the organisation had received “encouraging interim findings from an independent review into sepsis recording at the trust.
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NewsRoyal College voices concerns over UK paediatric services
Hospital care for sick children at weekends and in evenings needs to be better organised to ensure senior staff are available when needed, according to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
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NewsHSJ Live 11.4.2013: HSE announces investigation into Staffs case
Jeremy Hunt gains “frontline experience”, Tony Blair’s advice to Labour, deciding NHS resource allocation, and the rest of today’s news
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HSJ Local
Norfolk Community Trust reports 25 serious incidents in February
PERFORMANCE: 21 out of 25 serious incidents reported to Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust in February were grade three pressure ulcers, the March board meeting heard.
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News
Exclusive: NHS England could 'ratchet up' financial pressure on private mental health providers, analysts warn
Private mental health providers could see pressure on their profit margins “ratcheted up” by the centralisation of secure and specialised mental healthcare commissioning in the hands of NHS England, according to a new report by market analysts Laing and Buisson.
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CommentThe dialectic of foundation trust finances
Why the next FT accounts will be true works of beauty
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HSJ Local
Leeds surgery halt meant 10 children transferred
Ten sick children had to be transferred up to 120 miles from a Leeds paediatric heart unit while surgery was suspended, it has emerged.
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HSJ KnowledgePodcast: How NHS resource should be allocated post-reform
Resource allocated will increasingly frame the debate about funding
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NewsGPs express online records concern
Giving patients online access to their health records will lead to doctors having to explain themselves more often, according to a survey by the Medical Protection Society.
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News
Regulator should 'make allowances' for aspirant community FTs, says DH review author
Foundation trust regulator Monitor should “make allowances” for aspirant community foundation trusts and consider adjusting its assessment framework accordingly, according to the author of a confidential review the sector’s future commissioned by the Department of Health.
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HSJ LocalClock stopped on FT merger investigation
COMMERCIAL: The first merger between two foundation trusts faces further delays after the Competition Commission “stopped the clock” on its investigation into the deal.
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HSJ Local
Internal review to be carried out of Basildon cardiothoracic centre
STRUCTURE: An internal review is to be carried out into the cardiothoracic centre at Basildon Hospital, looking at whether it has achieved its original aims and how it might develop in the future.
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HSJ Local
North West 111 launch beset by 'serious problems', says Eastern Cheshire CCG chief
STRUCTURE: The March launch of the NHS 111 service for the North West has been beset by “a range of serious problems”, according to Jerry Hawker chief officer of NHS Eastern Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group.
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NewsHealth secretary working in hospital A&E
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is working in Watford General Hospital’s accident and emergency department today as part of an initiative to give health ministers and officials frontline experience, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
West Suffolk recruits plastic surgeons
WORKFORCE: West Suffolk Foundation Trust has employed its own plastic surgeons due to increasing demand.
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HSJ Local
New high observation bay for Scarborough Hospital
STRUCTURE: Patients at Scarborough Hospital are to benefit from a high observation bay designed for patients who need closer monitoring after surgery or who are ‘stepping down’ from more intensive care, the trust has reported.
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HSJ Local
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals recruits new clincial research director
CLINICAL RESEARCH: Dr Peter Sneddon is to become the director of clinical research at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust and the University of Sheffield next month.