All Health Service Journal articles in 17 March 2011
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HSJ Local
NHS Haringey risks rise in acute activity by cutting community posts
WORKFORCE: Haringey Teaching Primary Care Trust has drawn up plans to save money by axing posts in its intermediate care and community services, and altering its paediatric dentistry provision
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HSJ Local
Kent acute trusts propose merger
STRUCTURE: The boards of Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust and Medway NHS Foundation Trust are “exploring” the option of merging.
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HSJ Local
IT failure at UCLH closed A&E unit and led to surgery cancellation
PERFORMANCE: University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust had to cancel operations and close an accident and emergency department to blue light traffic as a result of an IT failure.
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HSJ Local
NHS London hand-out gives Haringey chance of breakeven
FINANCE: Haringey Teaching Primary Care Trust was allocated £28m from the NHS London Challenged Trust Board to cover a forecast out-turn deficit of £28.2m.
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HSJ Local
UCLH busts target on MRSA cases
PERFORMANCE: University College Hospitals Foundation Trust has exceeded its MRSA target for 2010-11, but regulator Monitor has chosen not to take action over the issue.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge nearing limits for infection control
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s infection report for January shows it is currently on course to hit its targets for MRSA cases but behind for Clostridium difficile.
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HSJ Local
CQC warns Cambridgeshire and Peterborough mental health FT
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has told Cambridgeshire and Peterborough FT that if it does not take immediate steps to improve standards of its mental health services, enforcement action may follow.
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HSJ Local
Concern over infection rise at UH Coventry and Warwickshire
PERFORMANCE: Increasing numbers of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL) infections have triggered concerns at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust.
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HSJ Local
Dartford and Gravesham struggling on ‘bare below elbows’ compliance
WORKFORCE: Dartford and Gravesham has said it is still experiencing isolated cases of staff failing to comply with infection control regulations requiring frontline staff to be “bare below the elbows”.
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HSJ Local
Dartford and Gravesham busts MRSA target but remains free of norovirus
PERFORMANCE: The acute trust said it had remained “remarkably” free of norovirus even though it had breached its target for MRSA cases.
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HSJ Local
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals in dispute with PCT over income
FINANCE: The trust has warned that £3.6m of its income is under dispute with commissioners, which poses a risk to its agreed year-end position.
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HSJ Local
South Warwickshire finds no 'shortcomings' following mortality alert
PERFORMANCE: South Warwickshire FT has said that a review triggered by a mortality alert found there were not “evident shortcomings in care” at the trust.
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HSJ Local
5 Boroughs behind on its target for early intervention teams
PERFORMANCE: The mental health foundation trust was behind at the end of January on its commitment to serve 143 new psychosis cases this year by early intervention teams, its latest performance report shows.
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HSJ Local
Southend UHFT builds surplus
FINANCE: Southend University Hospital FT found itself with a surplus of more than £5.25m at the end of January, a better than expected position.
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HSJ Local
CQC demands improvement action at Kent and Medway
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has told the partnership trust to take action to improve services.
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HSJ Local
New hospitals in Mid Yorkshire fully open
STRUCTURE: The final services moved into the new Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals this month, the Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust has announced.
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HSJ Local
Surplus above plan for South Warwickshire FT
FINANCE: South Warwickshire FT is reporting a £2m surplus for the year, according to board reports.
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NewsHutton proposes pension overhaul
Former Labour cabinet minister Lord Hutton has suggested that those who work for the NHS, teachers and police should receive pensions based on their average salary throughout their career, rather than ones based on their pay immediately before they retire.
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HSJ Local
Fire at Stoke community hospital
STRUCTURE: A small fire broke out at the Haywood Hospital in Burslem on 10 March, NHS Stoke on Trent has said.
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NewsFunctions guidance for consortia published by DH
The Department of Health has published a “working document” to clarify what functions commissioning consortia will have to perform.