All HSJ Local articles – Page 191
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Exclusive: Stafford Hospital safety review triggered by doctor shortage
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has been called in to inspect Stafford Hospital following concerns its shortage of doctors has spread, causing more services to become ‘fragile’.
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Monitor takes further action against Southend FT
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has instructed an Essex foundation trust to put an action plan in place to fix what it described as “one of the worst performing accident and emergency departments in the country”.
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Sussex Partnership reports deficit despite cutting costs of out of area beds
FINANCE: Despite cutting the cost of out-of-area beds Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust is reporting a year to date deficit of £1.78m against a break-even plan.
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HSJ LocalBarking publishes improvement plan to turn around performance
PERFORMANCE: Troubled Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust has published an improvement plan which includes attracting more senior accident and emergency staff by sharing rotas with neighbouring trusts.
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HSJ LocalFoundation trust set to start running GP practices
STRUCTURE: Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust is set to take over the “full ownership” of two GP practices, it has said, and is offering to run others.
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HSJ LocalManchester trust secures £25m loan to support PFI debts
FINANCE: The University Hospital of South Manchester Foundation Trust has secured a £25m government loan to keep on top of its private finance initiative repayments, Department of Health papers have revealed.
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Hurley Group wins south-east London urgent care centre contract
COMMERCIAL: Bexley CCG has awarded a contract to run two urgent care centres to the Hurley Group.
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HSJ LocalTrust wins back community services contract via GP partnership bid
COMMERCIAL: Pennine Care Foundation Trust has won one of the first community service contracts to be retendered with a partnership bid involving Age UK and a GP consortium.
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New deputy chief executive for UCLH
WORKFORCE: Neil Griffiths has returned to University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust as deputy chief executive after leaving for a stint at management consultancy McKinsey.
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Fix for elective reporting issues at Barnet and Chase Farm delayed
PERFORMANCE: Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals Trust’s difficulties with reporting waiting list figures could drag on into the autumn, amid signs that a staggering number of patients have waited more than a year for treatment.
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HSJ LocalCCG's 'unprecedented' hearing aid charging proposals attacked
FINANCE: An “unprecedented” proposal by a Staffordshire clinical commissioning group to significantly restrict funding for hearing aids has been attacked by charities and labelled the “thin end of the wedge” for wider NHS charging.
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HSJ LocalRoyal Berkshire appoints chief
Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust has appointed Jean O’Callaghan as its chief executive.
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HSJ LocalSheffield aims for single health and care budget
FINANCE: Sheffield’s clinical commissioning group and city council have unveiled plans to pool £237m more than required by national rules in 2015-16, with the “ultimate aim” of establishing a single budget for health and social care.
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Row between East Sussex trust and local MP over 'insulting' criticism
STRUCTURE: A south east trust has hit back at its Liberal Democrat MP for refusing to discuss his “insulting and inappropriate” criticisms of its restructuring programme.
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HSJ LocalBuckinghamshire Healthcare exits special measures
Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust has become the second trust to leave the special measures regime.
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HSJ LocalFT subsidiary takes over Circle clinic
A private firm wholly owned by a Midlands foundation trust is to take over the running of a private clinic from Circle
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HSJ LocalRecruitment struggle spells end for franchise rescue
The struggle of England’s smallest acute trust to recruit consultants played a major role in the decision to ditch its search for an independent sector management franchise to take it over, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ LocalDispute hits finances of CCG and provider in Shropshire
COMMERCIAL: A contract dispute between a clinical commissioning group and a trust in Shropshire has resulted in the CCG being placed in “financial recovery” and the provider pushed deeper into deficit, board papers showed.
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NHS 111 could be terminated in Norfolk
PERFORMANCE: The NHS 111 service could be terminated in Norfolk, as the East of England Ambulance Service Trust, which runs the service, has failed to secure sufficient funding.
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Cambs and Peterborough fails healthcare aquired infections target
PERFORMANCE: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group exceeded its annual ceiling for C difficile and MRSA in 2013-14, according to papers discussed it’s June governing body meeting.