All HSJ Local top news articles – Page 166
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Hospital fined over never events
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of Leicester will be financially penalised after two never events were reported by the trust in April.
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NewsWatchdog backs merger of Ealing and North West London hospitals
The health service’s competition watchdog has cleared proposals for a merger of NHS trusts Ealing Hospital and North West London Hospitals.
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University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire FT application date slips
A West Midlands teaching hospital has seen its application date for applying for foundation trust status put back.
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London Ambulance performance on life threatening calls falls sharply in run up to Olympics
PERFORMANCE: London Ambulance Service’s response to life threatening calls has fallen dramatically following the introduction of a new software system, with just weeks to go until the capital hosts the 2012 Olympic Games.
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ROH finances 'embarrassingly good', says new CEO
FINANCE: The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Foundation Trust’s chief executive has warned his board against potential complacency after describing the trust’s finances as “almost embarrassingly good”.
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Record fine for data breach to be appealed
PERFORMANCE: A south coast hospital trust is to appeal against a decision to fine it £325,000 for a serious breach of the Data protection Act.
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DH tells would-be FT application delay 'cannot happen again'
PERFORMANCE: A West Midlands teaching hospital has seen its application date for applying for foundation trust status delayed in the face of falling revnues ansd “numerous performance issues”.
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HSJ LocalLeicester gets all-clear from CQC
PERFORMANCE: Inspectors from the Care Quality Commission have given the University Hospitals of Leicester Trust the all-clear after it was issued with a warning notice by the watchdog earlier this year.
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HSJ LocalMid Staffs nurses disciplined for continuing cannula incidents
PERFORMANCE: Nurses at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have been disciplined with one suspended after the trust revealed another patient had been discharged with a cannula left in their arm.
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Reconfiguration high on Monitor's agenda after FT breach
STRUCTURE: Monitor’s response to financial problems at a struggling foundation trust has offered the first example of the watchdog’s new readiness to push for reconfiguration of services.
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Trust approves £1m consultant rota to cut death rates
WORKFORCE: Consultants working at Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals Trust are to be expected to work a seven-day rota in a drive to cut the number of weekend deaths.
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Trust rips up FT plans and seeks merger
The board of Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care Trust has voted unanimously to abandon plans to become a foundation trust and will instead seek a merger.
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New chief executive for Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals
WORKFORCE: The Essex trust has appointed Clare Panniker, chief executive of North Middlesex University Hospital Trust, as the replacement for Alan Whittle.
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Specialist trust chief executive leaves for charity
WORKFORCE: Jane Collins, chief executive of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children Foundation Trust, is stepping down to take up the chief executive’s role at Marie Curie Cancer Care.
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Public pressure led to PCT inspection, MP claims
PERFORMANCE: Pressure from patients and politicians helped to create a review of the out-of-hours medical service offered to people in Cornwall, according to an MP.
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Formal grievance lodged over outsourcing plans
WORKFORCE: Unison has lodged a formal grievance against University Hospitals of Leicestershire Trust following its decision to outsource transcriptions to India and downband medical secretaries.
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Trust's high activity level costs commissioners £27m
FINANCE: Oxford University Hospitals Trust exceeded planned levels of activity by 3.7 per cent in 2011-12, costing the local health economy £26.6m more than expected.
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HSJ LocalGP quality monitoring project under threat from reform
PERFORMANCE: A groundbreaking project monitoring the quality of GPs faces an uncertain future once its host strategic health authority is abolished.
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HSJ LocalBristol acutes consider merger
STRUCTURE: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust and North Bristol Trust have set up a project board to consider whether the two organisations should merge to create an organisation with a turnover close to £1bn.
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HSJ LocalMorecambe Bay 'not sustainable' without reconfiguration, says new chief
Troubled foundation trust University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay “can’t work” in the future without the reconfiguration of key services, its new chief executive has told HSJ.