All East of England articles – Page 73
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HSJ Local
Herts CCG expecting £12.5m acute overspend
FINANCE: East and North Herts CCG is expecting to overspend on acute services by £12.5m by the end of the financial year – but is offsetting them by underspends elsewhere. A report to NHS Hertfordshire’s board showed significant underspends on areas such as re-enablement in the forecast outcome of £3.7m.
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HSJ Local
NHS Midlands and East may struggle with mortality rates probe
PERFORMANCE: NHS Midlands and East could struggle to complete special reviews which will underpin the government-led probe into hospitals with high mortality rates by the summer deadline, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Cambridgeshire kicks off community services restructure
STRUCTURE: Cambridgeshire commissioners have begun considering the future of their community services, after it was decided the provide trust would not survive independently.
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HSJ Local
55000 GP and nurse appointments missed a year
PERFORMANCE Patients miss 55,000 GP and nurse appointments a year across north east Essex, NHS Mid Essex has announced.
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HSJ Local
Now Herts Community Health expects £1m surplus
FINANCE: Hertfordshire Community Trust expects to end the year with a surplus of £1.05m against a plan of £1.23m.
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HSJ Local
C Diff breached at Herts Community Trust
PERFORMANCE: Breaching the yearly target for clostridium difficile cases has led to a red rating for Hertfordshire Community Trust.
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HSJ Local
Herts hospitals miss stroke targets
PERFORMANCE: Both West Herts Hospital Trust and East and North Herts Trust failed to meet targets for patients spending time on a stroke ward with performance at 70.8 per cent and 78.9 per cent respectively in month nine against a target of 80 per cent.
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HSJ Local
East and North Herts records £760,000 surplus
FINANCE: East and North Hertfordshire Trust had a year-to-date surplus of just £0.76m at the end of January - £3.60m behind plan.
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HSJ Local
Review concludes Basildon short of senior pharmacists
STRUCTURE: An overhaul of pharmacy services at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust could see more senior pharmacists employed.
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HSJ Local
Small surplus prediction from Basildon
FINANCE: Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust Is expecting to end the year with a small surplus of around £200,000.
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HSJ Local
Inappropriate admissions issue for Colchester
PERFORMANCE: One of the trusts at the centre of a mortality investigation has said that it needs to work to reduce inappropriate admissions, especially for patients who are terminally ill.
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HSJ Local
Colchester busts C diff limit
PERFORMANCE: Colchester University Hospital Foundation Trust has exceeded its maximum number of C difficile cases for the year and will be red rated by Monitor.
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HSJ Local
Review reports on Basildon children's surgery
STRUCTURE: The question of whether children’s surgical services at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust should continue in their present form has been raised by an external review.
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HSJ Local
Capacity severely affecting elective work at Basildon
PERFORMANCE: Capacity problems have left an Essex foundation trust unable to carry out most elective work for over two months – with only cancer, day case and urgent work being done.
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HSJ Local
Chief executive sent in to troubleshoot East of England ambulance
PERFORMANCE: The Department of Health has asked an experienced ambulance service chief to carry out an independent review of the troubled East of England Ambulance Trust ahead of an expected critical report from the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ Local
CQC issues warning to Basildon despite improvement
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has issued a warning notice to Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust after concerns service improvements have not gone far enough.
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HSJ LocalLister Surgicentre faces CQC 'action'
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has said it will take “action” in relation to privately-run Lister Surgicentre, after it concluded patients’ health and welfare continue to be put at risk by the facility.
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HSJ Local
Southend CCG accountable officer lands place on national panel
WORKFORCE: Southend clinical commissioning group accountable officer Dr Paul Husselbee has been selected to join Sir Bruce Keogh’s advisory group to review 14 hospitals which have had higher than expected mortality rates.
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HSJ Local
West Essex CCG given five conditions for authorisation
STRUCTURE West Essex clinical commissioning group (CCG) has been granted conditional authorisation with 13 conditions, the NHS Commissioning Board has announced.
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