PERFORMANCE: Berkshire patients are more likely to recommend Heatherwood Hospital than Wexham Park, feedback from NHS Choices has shown.
Two thirds of patients said they would recommend the trust’s major acute site at Wexham Park, compared with 90 per cent for Heatherwood, which does not have a full emergency department and provides some inpatient services along with diagnostics and outpatient work.
July 2012
An “integrated care provider” of a range of services including core general practice is due to be established in a major new housing development.
A major London teaching trust has accelerated a trust-wide training programme after reporting seven never events in its financial year to date, including two in one month.
HSJ ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
A troubled foundation trust is to be placed into special measures after inspectors reported a catalogue of repeated failings, including unsafe staffing levels and missed accident and emergency targets.
STRUCTURE: The Competition and Markets Authority has begun a review of the proposed merger between Frimley Park Hospital Foundation Trust and its troubled neighbour Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust.
PERFORMANCE: The outgoing chief executive of Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust has said it will take “years” to fix the organisation, and predicted that a forthcoming Care Quality Commission inspection would find continuing failings in some aspects of care.
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