FINANCE: Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust achieved 105.6 per cent of their cost improvement programme plan for 2010-11.
The £146m-turnover acute saved £6.7m and aims to increase that by 20 per cent this year.
The trust has now lodged its accounts for 2010-11 in parliament.
Trust verbal communication
May 2011
The long-planned hospital merger in Liverpool is unlikely to create an NHS trust which is financially secure – so there will need to be a rebalancing of funding in the city to help it escape a structural deficit, according to an acute chief executive in the patch.
An integrated care system in the south west of England has appointed Nick Relph as interim chair.
The Department of Health and Social Care has received an additional £600m from the Treasury to cover “unforeseen” cost pressures in 2018-19.
Pathologists in one of England’s most advanced health economies have launched a procurement for a common IT system across laboratories at up to eight NHS trusts.
STRUCTURE: Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust plans to increase its provision of integrated out-of-hospital services during 2014-15, board papers reveal.
PERFORMANCE: Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust was above its limit for cases of c-difficile in May by one case.
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