All HSJ Local articles – Page 286
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Vale Royal CCG disagreement over ambulance service redirect
STRUCTURE: Vale Royal CCG board papers warn of a conflict between the new CCGs in the region and North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
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Research finds third of East Lancs A&E patients could go elsewhere
PERFORMANCE: Up to a third of patients attending East Lancashire NHS Trust’s Royal Blackburn Hospital’s Urgent Care Centre could be sent to their GP or pharmacy after research has found that many attendees should not be there.
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Cumbria public health director to lead Faculty of Public Health
STRUCTURE: Dr Rebecca Wagstaff has been appointed intrim director of Public Health for Cumbria.
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Stillbirths and infant mortality declining in Cumbria
SERVICE DESIGN: Stillbirths and infant mortality in Cumbria are declining but more can be done to reduce rates further according to a report published by NHS Cumbria.
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West Lancs CCG launches consultation on diabetes service
SERVICE DESIGN: NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group has launched a consultation on the design of community diabetes services.
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Wrightington FT stroke services praised
PERFORMANCE: An independent review of NHS Stroke Services across Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust has praised the standards of clinical practice and overall service quality at the organisation.
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Lancashire CSU appoints director of delivery
WORKFORCE: Linda Riley has been appointed as director of delivery at the Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit.
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Newcastle Hospitals issues children's heart surgery statement
STRUCTURE: Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has issued a statement following the successful legal challenge to the national children’s heart surgery reconfiguration proposals.
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Brighton hospitals may move chemotherapy into community
SERVICES: Sussex cancer patients could be offered chemotherapy in the community to reduce the pressure at hospitals.
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£30m efficiency requirement in 2013-14 for Brighton Hospitals
FINANCE: Brighton and Sussex Hospitals Trust will have to make £30m of savings in the next financial year to deliver a one per cent surplus.
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North Cumbria and Northumbria decide takeover date
STRUCTURE: Hospitals in North Cumbria are set to be run by Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust from October 1.
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Sussex Community Trust redesigns safeguarding training
WORKFORCE: Sussex Community Trust is redesigning some of its training in safeguarding children because of unacceptably low number of staff being appropriately trained.
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East of England ambulance chair resigns
WORKFORCE: The chair of troubled East of England Ambulance Service Trust has resigned with immediate effect.
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Trust investigates streptococcal infections at Crawley Hospital
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Community Trust is investigating how nine patients on a ward at Crawley Hospital came to contract a group A streptococcal (GAS) infection.
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Kent and Medway reports QIPP slip
FINANCE: Only 55 per cent of planned QIPP savings of £57m were delivered in Kent and Medway to the end of January.
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Long waits for CAMH in Kent and Medway
PERFORMANCE: Young people with mental health problems in Kent are having to wait more than six months for a specialist assessment.
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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells 'grossly' over activity
FINANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust is ‘grossly’ overperforming on contracts with its main commissioners with a £26m overspend to the end of month 11. The vast majority of this is with West Kent PCT.
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Eastbourne CCG requires £18.4m savings next year
FINANCE: Eastbourne. Hailsham and Seaford CCG will need to make £18.4m savings in the next financial year – most of that in the acute sector.
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BSUH within C Difficile target
PERFORMANCE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has seen higher rates of C Difficile infection in February and March although it remains well within its target of no more than 71 cases for the year at just 46.
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Brighton and Sussex reconsidering whistleblowing policy
WORKFORCE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust is considering reshaping its approach to whistleblowing.