STRUCTURE: Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust is planning to extend its bariatric surgery service which opened last year.
The first patients were operated on last summer at Doncaster Royal Infirmary, becoming the second centre in South Yorkshire in addition to Sheffield. The trust now plans to extend the service to Bassetlaw Hospital from April.
Trust statement (attached see right)
March 2011
Acute trusts are expected to be told they cannot keep mental health patients who are waiting for a bed or assessment within their accident and emergency department, HSJ understands.
A GP group in Yorkshire and the Humber has been rated “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission.
An “integrated care provider” of a range of services including core general practice is due to be established in a major new housing development.
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals has promoted its nursing director to chief executive.
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust has achieved teaching trust status today following a public consultation.
LEADERSHIP: A south Yorkshire hospital trust chief executive has stepped down to spend more time with his family after nearly four years in the post.
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