FINANCE: Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust recorded a £3.73m surplus.
Board minutes said the surplus was recorded in audited annual accounts. The minutes said: “[Audit committee chair] Richard Bell updated colleagues on discussions in other NHS bodies regarding ‘going concern’ status. The board of directors took the opportunity to confirm their collective view that [the trust] did indeed represent a going concern.”
May 2011
A baby died with an infection caught on a neonatal unit, despite earlier warnings about outbreaks due to its “approach to overcrowding” of cots, HSJ has learned.
A South Yorkshire trust is to share a chair with its neighbour as part of a programme of “partnership working”.
Leaders at a trust with “inadequate” maternity services were focused on plans for a new hospital “to the detriment of current service challenges”, the care regulator has said.
NHS England has taken formal enforcement action against a trust after expressing “significant concerns” over a “deterioration” in how its board operates.
An MP has accused the leadership of her local trust of orchestrating a “witch hunt” against one of its own directors and manipulating a recruitment process to ensure the CEO’s “preferred” candidate was shortlisted for an executive position.
Two more non-executive directors have criticised the leaders of Bradford Teaching Hospitals, accusing them of using “Islamophobic tropes” and retaliating against “dissenting opinion”.
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