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
Inspectors have branded a hospital’s paediatric services “inadequate” and warned of “resentment” among medical staff following a trust merger.
A union has criticised a hospital trust for “jeopardising patient safety” by issuing “highly inappropriate” instructions for resident doctors to approve prescription requests from physician associates.
NHS England has knocked back plans to merge corporate services across an integrated care system – blaming the size of the patch’s deficit.
Two coastal trusts embarking on a new leadership model have appointed a joint chief executive.
Staff at a trust in the South West have had to spend hours “phoning around hospitals” to find suitable cots for premature babies, in the face of “increasing difficulty” in accessing appropriate care locally.
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.
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