All Health Service Journal articles in 3 March 2011 – Page 3
-
HSJ Local
Dorset Healthcare University FT acquisition of community services moves forward
STRUCTURE: Dorset Healthcare University FT’s takeover of local community services is pressing ahead.
-
HSJ Local
Royal Devon and Exeter ahead of plan on suplus
FINANCE: Royal Devon and Exeter FT is predicting a year end surplus £0.4m above plan.
-
HSJ Local
CQC recomemends improvement at Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust
PERFORMANCE: The CQC have made seven recommendations for improvement at Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust.
-
HSJ Local
Plymouth Hospitals Trust predicts £4.6m deficit
FINANCE: Plymouth Hospitals Trust is forecasting to break even at the end of the year despite reporting a £4.6m deficit.
-
HSJ Local
Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust predicting £6m deficit for 2013-14
FINANCE; A specialist eye hospital is predicting a significant deficit within two years because of increased cost pressures
-
HSJ Local
NHS Bromley plans to save £7.5m on urgent care
FINANCE: NHS Bromley’s Quality, Improvement, Productivity and Prevention programme anticipates saving £1.8m on urgent care for each of the next four financial years.
-
HSJ Local
Barts and the London Trust still above agency staff budget
WORKFORCE: The east london acute trust missed its 3.5 per cent target in December, board papers revealed.
-
HSJ Local
South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust hits SHA savings targets but misses its own
FINANCE; The mental health organisation achieved the £6.2m Cost Improvement Programme target set by NHS London.
-
HSJ Local
NHS Barnet asks SHA to be excused repayment of £45.4m loan
FINANCE: The north London primary care trust has written to NHS London’s challenged trust board asking if the sum they received this financial year could be written off.
-
HSJ Local
Dispute with PCTs puts Great Western Hospitals' surplus at risk
FINANCE: Great Western Hospitals FT has disputed the amount offered by its local PCTs for activity above contract.
-
HSJ Local
NHS Swindon sheds more than 100 staff
WORKFORCE: Staff numbers at NHS Swindon fell by 14 per cent between April and December last year.
-
HSJ Local
University Hospitals Bristol FT presses ahead with partnership plans
STRUCTURE: University Hospitals Bristol and North Bristol Trust have set up a partnership board to take forward plans to work more closely together.
-
HSJ Local
NHS Plymouth confident of surplus despite commissioning overspend of £11.5m
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY: NHS Plymouth is forecasting an overspend on commissioning of £11.5m.
-
HSJ Local
Hinchingbrooke predicts recovery plan will rescue breakeven
FINANCE: Hinchingbrooke Health Care expects to break even despite a £1.4m deficit at the end of 2010, thanks to its recovery plan.
-
HSJ Local
Below average performance on stroke indicators at Sherwood Forest Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust is performing below average on five out of nine stroke indicators.
-
HSJ Local
Sick leave numbers hit 12-month peak at Alder Hey
WORKFORCE: Alder Hey lost 5,496 work days in November due to staff illness, the highest monthly rate of sickness abscence for the foundation in 12 months.
-
HSJ Local
Yeovil District Hospital FT introduces band 4 HCAs
WORKFORCE: Yeovil District Hospital FT is working towards its first group of band 4 associate practitioners.
-
HSJ Local
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals delays women and children unit to help balance books
FINANCE: The foundation calculated that its decision to delay construction work on its new women and children’s unit would defer spending of £1.5m and help it avoid finishing 2010/11 in deficit, board documents show.
-
HSJ Local
Warrington & Halton Hospitals forced to divert patients to other emergency departments
PERFORMANCE: Warrrington & Halton Hospitals FT has been forced to divert patients to other A&E departments on four occasions over the winter period, Department of Health data shows.
-
HSJ Local
Audit Commission highlights weaknesses at Great Western Ambulance Service
FINANCE: The Audit Commission’s annual audit of Great Western Ambulance Service highlighted two serious weaknesses in reporting.