All Health Service Journal articles in 23 August 2012 – Page 2
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HSJ Local
Main entrance upgrade at Kings Mill Hospital
STRUCTURE: Work has started to change the main entrance at King’s Mill Hospital, in Nottinghamshire to improve patient and visitor access.
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HSJ Local
NHS London approves £4m funding for SW London reconfiguration programme
STRUCTURE: NHS London has approved a request for NHS South West London to use £4m of top-sliced funding for its reconfiguration programme.
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HSJ Local
A&E target problems for Ashford and St Peter’s in Q1
PERFORMANCE: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust breached the four-hour target for accident and emergency waits more often than it met it during the first quarter of 2012-13, according to board papers.
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HSJ Local
NHS London exempts NHS Croydon from two per cent top-slice requirement
FINANCE: NHS London has approved NHS Croydon’s request that it be exempted from the two per cent top-slicing for all primary care trusts stipulated in the NHS Operating Framework.
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HSJ Local
Thousands stop smoking in Northamptonshire
PERFORMANCE: More than 5,000 people decided to quit smoking in Northamptonshire last year health officials have announced.
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HSJ Local
New cancer care unit at Grantham Hospital
STRUCTURE: A new dedicated breast cancer unit costing £125,000 is being developed at Lincolnshire’s Grantham Hospital.
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HSJ Local
OFT invites comment on proposed private cancer unit at Guy's and St Thomas'
COMMERCIAL: The Office of Fair Trading has issued an invitation to comment on the “anticipated acquisition by HCA International Limited of the lease of premises from Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Foundation Trust in order to install and operate a private patient unit in relation to cancer treatment and radiotherapy services”.
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HSJ Local
Second CQC warning in a year for Leicester
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of Leicester has been handed a second warning notice by the Care Quality Commission in less than a year.
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HSJ Local
Southampton research sheds light on recurrent miscarriages
RESEARCH: A study carried out by specialists in Southampton has found that women who suffer recurrent miscarriages may actually be “super fertile”.
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HSJ Local
SHA agrees extra £10m for South London Healthcare Trust in 'transition year'
FINANCE: NHS London has agreed to release £10m it had topsliced from the south east London primary care trusts to bail out South London Healthcare Trust in a “transition year”.
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HSJ Local
NHS London approves £4.8m bailout of Bexley
FINANCE: NHS London has approved a £4.8m bailout of NHS Bexley this financial year to allow it to set a “realistic and suitable QIPP target”.
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HSJ Local
X-ray mistakes investigated at Midlands hospital
PERFORMANCE: A baby and an adult patient were wrongly subjected to an x-ray by hospital staff it has emerged after a whistleblower came forward.
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HSJ Local
SASH breached A&E target in April
PERFORMANCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust breached the four-hour target for accident and emergency waits for two consecutive weeks during the first quarter of 2012-13, according to board papers.
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HSJ Local
Steady performance by Frimley Park on four-hour A&E target
PERFORMANCE: Frimley Park NHS Foundation Trust breached the four-hour target for accident and emergency waits once during the first quarter of 2012-13, according to board papers.
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Comment
The care measurement evolution
How useful are randomised controlled trials in evaluating new ways of delivering care?
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Comment
Readers' letters - 23 August 2012
Delayed discharge is expensive and entirely preventable. Plus, why are ambulances being held up?
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HSJ Local
Lambeth given £1m towards 'Neighbourhood Resource Centres'
FINANCE: NHS London gave £1m to the south London primary care trust for the “Norwood and Akerman business cases development costs - development of proposals for the Neighbourhood Resource Centres supported by a full business case”, a report said.
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HSJ Local
SHA approves £1m admissions avoidance scheme for cluster
FINANCE: NHS London has approved NHS South East London’s application for an emergency readmissions avoidance scheme, funded from the primary care trust cluster’s 2 per cent annual top-slice.
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HSJ Local
Lewisham hospital gets £2.2m for 'sustainable maternity service'
FINANCE: NHS London granted a request from NHS South East London for £2.2m of its top-sliced funding to pay for “the delivery of a sustainable maternity service” and other “key service developments”, a Freedom of Information Act request reveals.
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HSJ Local
£5.4m to tackle waiting list backlog at King's
FINANCE: King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust was given £5.4m of its top-sliced 2 per cent funding back by NHS London to tackle a waiting list backlog at one of its main providers.