All HSJ Local articles – Page 270
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Plymouth Hospitals goes overseas to recruit nurses
WORKFORCE: Plymouth Hospital Trust has held recruitment days in Belfast and Dublin in a bid to recruit registered nurses.
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Medway FT scores badly on patient dignity
PERFORMANCE: Medway Foundation Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing below average in the inpatient survey for treating people with dignity and respect.
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Queen Victoria FT staff supportive of patients
PERFORMANCE: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing above average in the inpatient survey for emotional support given to patients.
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Patients recognise nurse respect at Queen Victoria FT
PERFORMANCE: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing above average in the inpatient survey for the way nurses acted around them.
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Queen Victoria FT scores well in information levels
PERFORMANCE: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing above average in the inpatient survey for the amount of information given to patients.
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Pain control highly rated at Queen Victoria FT
PERFORMANCE: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing above average in the inpatient survey for efforts to control pain.
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New non-executive for Hull and East Yorks
WORKFORCE: Andy Snowden has been appointed as a non-executive director at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust.
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PCT chair joins acute trust board
WORKFORCE: A former primary care trust chair has joined Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust as a non-executive director.
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Calderdale and Huddersfield leading on new cornea surgery
SERVICES: Patients at Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust are benefiting from a new cornea transplant process.
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Vale of York CCG plans £3.3m surplus and to pay off debt
FINANCE: Vale of York CCG is planning for a surplus of £3.3m in its first financial year – but hopes to pay off nearly £3.5M of the deficit it is inheriting.
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Keyhole kidney stone treatment introduced at Huddersfield
SERVICES: Keyhole treatment for kidney stones is now available at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, saving patients a journey to Wakefield or Leeds. And a new centralised urology unit at the hospital can also use lithotropsy to break up smaller stones.
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Nottingham consultants given clinical lead roles
STRUCTURE: Three consultants from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust are to play a key role in shaping NHS policy in critical care and major trauma.
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Fluck named as renal tsar
STRUCTURE:A leading kidney expert from Derby Hospitals, Dr Richard Fluck, practising consultant in renal medicine has been appointed as National Clinical Director for Renal Disease by the NHS Medical Director, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh.
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Mansfield CCG highlights transfers problem at Sherwood Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Recent board papers from Mansfield and Ashfield CCG warn of the high level of delayed transfers of care at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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Nene launches medicine waste campaign
FINANCE: Nene CCG has launched waste medicines campaign in order to tackle the problem of patients “stockpiling” medication at home and then throwing it away.
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Milton Keynes CCG already overspending on hospital care
FINANCE: Milton Keynes CCG is grappling with a £10m over-performance on acute services.
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East Leicestershire identifies acute overspend risk
FINANCE: Recent finance board papers for East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG warn that there is a “significant level of financial risk” for the CCG due to the level of over performance across all the out of county providers it commissions from.
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Patients happy with information at Queen Victoria FT
PERFORMANCE: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing above average in the inpatient survey for understandable information from clinicians.
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Queen Victoria FT involves patients in decisions
PERFORMANCE: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing above average in the inpatient survey for involvement in decision-making.
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Patients lack help eating at Dartford and Gravesham
PERFORMANCE: Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust was picked out by the Care Quality Commission as performing below average for the help provided by staff at meal times in the inpatient survey.