PERFORMANCE: Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust is setting up a team to support community hospitals in managing patients at risk of pressure ulcers.
Minutes from December’s board said this was part of work to reduce the prevalence of patients being admitted from community settings with pressure ulcers.
February 2013
Nearly half of all trusts recorded a drop in their 62-day cancer performance over the past year, official data shows, as system leaders gear up to publish new national strategy.
A large trust has become the first to publicly admit it will fail to meet its financial plan this year and will plunge into a deficit of more than £40m.
An acute trust is considering ending a 20-year partnership with a local authority as the cost of delivering adult social care services is exceeding funding by £35m per year.
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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