Acute Care – Page 465
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Foundation concern over £28m in unpaid bills
Nine foundation trusts have 'significant concerns' over whether outstanding bills will be paid by primary care trusts. The trusts are warning that £28m might have to be written off.
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Treaty clash between regulatory rivals
Friction between regulators Monitor and the Healthcare Commission was growing this week over the former's reluctance to sign up to a concordat designed to reduce the regulatory burden on trusts.
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Comms failure hampered London bombing response
London Ambulance Service trust has accepted that the breakdown of the mobile network and the configuration of its radio system led to 'communications difficulties' that hampered the NHS response to the bombings in London on 7 July last year.
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Higher costs warning on independent sector
Uncertainty over the role of the independent sector is likely to result in higher costs to the NHS, less innovation and a 'muddle' which will put patients in danger, the King's Fund has warned.
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MPs to probe IT programme
MPs on the Commons health select committee are set to investigate the NHS IT programme later this year in response to a letter from 23 computer experts. MPs will examine the national programme and decide whether there is a need for an independent audit.
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Foundation governance definitely not kids' stuff
Monitor has stepped in to prevent a foundation trust appointing children as governors.
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Choice: too little data for patients
Patients want to choose hospitals on the basis of quality of care but there is too little data to help them come to a conclusion, a report has found.
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Foundation trust defers application
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has deferred its foundation trust application because of continuing uncertainty over the payment by results tariff for specialist services.
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News analysis Trusts feel impact as PFI and payment by results collide
Cash-strapped trusts locked into expensive and inflexible PFI deals have always faced particular challenges. But with payment by results making no allowance for the extra costs they face, their future is looking bleak indeed. Alison Moore reports
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Audit Commission and NAO calls for debt bail-outs
Ministers should reconsider their decision not to bail out trusts with historic deficits, a report by the Audit Commission and National Audit Office has recommended.
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Some trusts will stay in red, MPs warn
Some NHS trusts will never get back into financial balance, one of the government's turnaround advisers has admitted.
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Specialist trusts lobby ministers for change in tariff
Britain's five specialist orthopaedic hospitals say they will be forced to cancel operations and cut services unless the government adjusts the way they are paid.
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Trust faces bill for dropped PFI deal
A £167m scheme to centralise a hospital trust's services on one site has been dropped at a likely cost of £10m. Essex Rivers Healthcare trust made because the decision because the opening of a new independent treatment centre would have made it unaffordable and because the plans did not align ...
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DoH publishes diagnostic test figures
The Department of Health has for the first time published waiting-time figures for all diagnostic tests for every acute trust.
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New rules for providers on data
Providers will be contractually obliged to provide information to help commissioners decide whether they should continue to buy services from them.
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Stroke patients 'die needlessly', says report
Stroke patients in England 'die needlessly or suffer more serious disability than they should' because they continue to be denied fast access to brain scans and clot-busting drugs, according to a report published by the Commons public accounts committee.
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Maternity unit's near miss
A trust has reversed its decision to close a maternity unit after threats from a local MP to raise the issue with the prime minister.
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Surgeons slate target culture
Workforce planning has been plunged into 'disarray' by 'recent government policies' that show an 'arrogant' disregard of the views of consultants, Royal College of Surgeons president Bernard Ribeiro was due to say yesterday.
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Monitor settles payment by results row
A public dispute between the foundation trust and primary care trust in Bournemouth over payments under payment by results has been settled.
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Ombudsman points to failed leadership over complaints
Leadership and management failures are evident in many of the complaints against the NHS handled by the parliamentary ombudsman.