All Health Service Journal articles in 14 July 2011 – Page 6
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NewsSHA clustering arrangements announced
Clustering arrangements for strategic health authorities will see the country divided into the South, the Midlands, London and the North, it has been announced.
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NewsCommissioning Board will get funds from public health budget
The NHS Commissioning Board will have access to funding from the public health budget to commission “appropriate” programmes, the government has said.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells invests £2m in bus service
FINANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is planning investment of over £2m in bus services over the next five years to enhance public transport to its new hospital in Pembury after it fully opens in September.
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HSJ Local
Darent Valley failing to meet CQC essential standards
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was not meeting standards relating to dignity and nutrition during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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HSJ Local
South Tyneside fails to make grade on dignity
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was not meeting essential standards relating to dignity during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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HSJ Local
New Kent hospital on schedule for autumn opening
STRUCURE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust says it is making good progress towards fully opening its new Pembury Hospital in September.
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HSJ Local
Colchester fails CQC dignity and nutrition test
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was not meeting standards relating to dignity and nutrition during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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HSJ Local
Basingstoke passes CQC spot check
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was meeting standards relating to nutrition during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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HSJ Local
Stoke Mandeville passes CQC spot check
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was meeting standards relating to nutrition during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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HSJ Local
Leighton Hospital passes CQC check but minor concerns noted
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was meeting standards relating to nutrition, but with minor concerns, during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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HSJ Local
Shift in maternity demand at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
STRUCTURE: There has been a big rise in the predicted number of births for July at the new Tunbridge Wells Hospital and a corresponding fall at Maidstone Hospital.
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HSJ Local
CQC finds minor concerns at Queen Alexandra Hospital
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was meeting standards relating to nutrition, but with minor concerns, during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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HSJ Local
Heatherwood FT sickness rate costs £720,000 in one month
WORKFORCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has reported that it lost 3,321 working days in April to sickness, at a cost of £720,000.
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HSJ Local
South Devon Healthcare FT praised for its hip replacements
PERFORMANCE: South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust has won praise for the quality and efficiency of its its fractured neck of femur pathway from the Royal College of Surgeons.
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HSJ Local
Patient choice impedes cancer target performance, says Heatherwood FT
PERFORMANCE: Patient choice has been blamed for the foundation trust’s difficulties in meeting a cancer referral to treatment target.
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HSJ Local
NHS Bristol signs £1.4m telehealth deal
COMMERCIAL: NHS Bristol has signed a three year contract worth £1.4m with a telehealth company to provide support for patients with long term conditions.
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HSJ Local
North West trusts 31 per cent behind on savings plans at the end of May
FINANCE: NHS trusts in the region had collectively fallen £7.4m behind on their cost improvement programme savings plans at the end of the second month of 2011-12, strategic health authority board papers show.
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HSJ Local
Oldham £335,000 behind plan by the end of May
FINANCE: The primary care trust was breaking even at the end of the second month of 2011-12, against plans to have made a surplus of £335,000 by that point, strategic health authority board papers show.
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HSJ Local
Trafford £165,0000 behind plan by the end of May
FINANCE: The primary care trust was showing a surplus £165,000 behind plan at the end of the second month of 2011-12, strategic health authority board papers show.
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HSJ Local
Ashton, Wigan and Leigh £116,000 behind plan by the end of May
FINANCE: The primary care trust was showing a surplus £116,000 behind plan at the end of the second month of 2011-12, strategic health authority board papers show.