All Health Service Journal articles in 30 June 2011 – Page 5
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Sherwood Forest Hospitals scrapes though CQC nutrition check
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission said the FT passed standards relating to dignity and nutrition during a spot check, but improvements were needed to ensure performance was maintained on nutrition.
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Nuffield Orthopaedic makes grade on dignity and nutrition
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission said the specialist trust passed both of the 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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Tameside closed 2010-11 with £1.4m deficit and red rating for governance
PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust closed 2010-11 with a year-end deficit of £1.39m, and a red rating for governance from FT regulator Monitor.
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University Hospitals Bristol gets on top of new A&E indicator
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust has improved performance against the time to initial assessment A&E indicator by 15 per cent in a month.
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Seventeen South East Coast provider contracts signed off late
COMMERCIAL: A total of 17 providers in the South East Coast strategic health authority area did not have their 2011-12 provider/commissioner contracts signed off at the beginning of the year.
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Minor concerns raised about nutrition standards at St George’s
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission said the trust passed standards relating to dignity and nutrition during a spot check, but improvements were needed to ensure performance was maintained on nutrition.
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CQC success for North Middlesex University Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission said the trust passed both of the 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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University Hospitals Bristol FT gets amber/red Monitor rating
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust has achieved an amber/red governance risk rating from Monitor for 2010-11.
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United Lincolnshire fell short on savings for 2010-11
FINANCE: United Lincolnshire Hospitals “significantly” missed a savings target last year, according to board minutes.
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Twenty-two contracts signed off late in Yorkshire and the Humber
COMMERCIAL: A total of 22 provider/commissioner contracts for 2011-12 were not signed off at the beginning of the financial year in the Yorkshire and the Humber region, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMeldrum: reform changes 'more than a respray'
The British Medical Association council chair has said the government’s changes to its NHS plans are “more than a respray job”.
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NewsHealth secretary gains powers over NHS Commissioning Board in amended bill
The health secretary is to be given the power to intervene in “particular cases” of “significant failure” by the NHS Commissioning Board, under the newly amended Health Bill.
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NewsProposed commissioning groups will be 'unsustainable'
Senior managers implementing NHS reforms believe many of the proposed clinical commissioning groups are “unsustainable” because they are too small.
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NewsGPs focus on financially rewarding patients, study shows
Patients whose care sees GPs receive financial payments are being prioritised at the expense of others, research suggests.
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NewsHospitals failing stroke admissions target
Most hospitals in Scotland are failing to meet admission targets for stroke victims, new figures have shown.
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News‘Specialist’ doctors on CCG boards could be GPs
The “hospital doctors” due to sit on the boards of clinical commissioning groups will not have to be currently working in acute care and may even be serving GPs, HSJ has learned.
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CommentJon Restell: it's time to get behind the defenders of pensions
When you hear the word “pension”, do you bury your head in the sand? If so, I’ve got bad news.
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NewsOn valuing managers: Nigel Edwards writes exclusively in HSJ this week
The former NHS Confederation chief executive Nigel Edwards writes an exclusive opinion piece for HSJ this week on the value of managers in the NHS.
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Bailout fund considerably less than available reserves, SHA confirms
FINANCE: NHS London directors confirmed at a board meeting the reserves allocated to the Challenged Trust Board for 2011-12 were £95.3m, while acute trusts have debts of more than £424m.
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Nicholson says region's FT pipeline risks going backwards
STRUCTURE: Sir David Nicholson has written to the board of a strategic health authority saying “there is a real danger that by the end of 2011-12 many of these [trusts in the pipeline] will be a position where their ability to achieve FT by 2014 will have worsened”.