All HSJ Local articles – Page 183
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HSJ LocalSouthend FT chief executive to leave
STRUCTURE: The chief executive of troubled Southend University Hospital Foundation Trust is to leave her job.
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HSJ LocalLeicester provider breaches waiting target for second year
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of Leicester Trust has failed to meet its four-hour accident and emergency waiting target on a monthly basis for two years in a row.
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HSJ LocalSecond inquest into Stafford Hospital death resumes
A second inquest into the death of a man who died after being treated at Stafford Hospital in 2006 was due to resume in Leicestershire today.
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HSJ LocalDudley becomes first trust to request CQC rating review
Dudley Group Foundation Trust has become the first trust to be granted a formal review of its Care Quality Commission rating.
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HSJ LocalDevon provider ‘requires improvement’
PERFORMANCE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust has been rated as “requires improvement” by the Care Quality Commission after inspectors found a raft of concerns, including do not resuscitate forms being filled in without discussion with patients and relatives.
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HSJ LocalProposal to centralise stroke services in Lewisham
STRUCTURE: Lewisham and Greenwich Trust has proposed moving stroke services out of one of its acute hospitals to help cope with demand for emergency beds.
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HSJ LocalCambridge University Hospitals in row over withheld payments
PERFORMANCE: Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has clashed with commissioners over £1m withheld from the trust for failing to meet a target it believes it met.
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HSJ LocalKing's Lynn to remain in special measures
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has recommended that Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn Foundation Trust remains in special measures.
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HSJ LocalCentral London GP practices to close
STRUCTURE: Two central London GP practices will be closed, leaving 6,000 patients forced to find an alternative provider.
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HSJ LocalTaunton chief exec to retire
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust has announced her retirement after six years running the south western hospital.
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HSJ LocalCQC finds safety failures at Avon and Wiltshire
A mental health trust that was found to have a “controlling” leadership culture two years ago has been ordered to make urgent improvements to the safety of its services by the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ LocalCCG to withhold acute payments in contract row
A clinical commissioning group is to withhold over £75,800 in monthly contract payments from an acute trust following a row over the trust’s accident and emergency performance.
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HSJ LocalStrained ambulance service to cut call-outs by 15 per cent
PERFORMANCE: London Ambulance Service Trust has announced it will cut the number of emergency calls that receive an ambulance response by 15 per cent, in response to staff shortages and rising demand.
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HSJ LocalCCG given NHS England legal direction over waiting list backlog
PERFORMANCE: A legal direction has been placed on a clinical commissioning group by NHS England following the discovery of a large backlog of elective patients at its main provider.
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HSJ LocalCommissioners should join CQC inspections, says CCG leader
A clinical commissioning group leader has called on the Care Quality Commission to allow CCGs to join inspections of their local hospitals.
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HSJ LocalOxford trust sees 11 per cent jump in patient complaints
PERFORMANCE: Oxford University Hospitals Trust saw an 11 per cent jump in in the number of complaints it received from patients last year, it has emerged.
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HSJ LocalNottinghamshire CCGs mull tender for continuing healthcare support
Five clinical commissioning groups in Nottinghamshire are considering tendering for part of the area’s continuing healthcare service due to problems with the current support provider.
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HSJ LocalNorfolk trust applies for mutual programme
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust is bidding to be one of 10 trusts to receive grant funding to investigate the potential scope for becoming a mutual, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalHerts Valleys CCG seeking partner to undertake ‘strategic review’
STRUCTURE: Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group is looking for an “independent partner” to help it conduct a “strategic review” to ensure the sustainability of the West Hertfordshire healtheconomy.
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HSJ LocalCCG leader steps down
WORKFORCE: The managing director of South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group has stepped down from his role, it has emerged.