All HSJ Local articles – Page 294
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Royal United struggles for capacity
PERFORMANCE: High levels of activity at Royal United Hospital Bath has seen the trust forced to keep open about 50 extra beds at the beginning of the year.
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Buckinghamshire QIPP plan to fall short by a third
FINANCE: Buckinghamshire’s attempts to reduce activity were off target due to quality, innovation, productivity and prevention plan slippages.
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Epsom and St Helier meets waiting targets but behind in some specialties
PERFORMANCE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust is hitting waiting time targets for the year-to-date but has backlogs in three specialities.
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Serco out-of-hours fell 'unacceptably short'
PERFORMANCE: Cornwall’s Serco run out-of-hours service fell “unacceptably short” of essential standards of quality and safety, the chair of the public accounts committee has said.
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Strike threat at Yorkshire Ambulance Service
WORKFORCE: Hundreds of frontline staff at an ambulance trust could be taking strike action by the end of the month.
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Royal Cornwall's response to concerns 'less than adequate'
PERFORMANCE: Failure to respond properly to concerns raised by staff at Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust allowed a potentially unsafe doctor to continue to operate for more than ten years, a report has found.
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New nursing director for Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust
WORKFORCE: Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed a new nursing director.
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Non-elective activity drives Bath cluster overspend
FINANCE: The Wiltshire and Bath and North East Somerset primary care trust cluster was overspent on its contract with Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust by £3.3m at the end of January.
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Trust acknowledges errors in care of patient found hanged
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust has said it “sincerely regrets” the shortcomings in the care provided to a man with mental health problems who was found dead at his home last year.
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Board in place for Hillingdon Healthwatch
STRUCTURE: A chair and board have been appointed to Healthwatch Hillingdon, which has a start date of 1 April 2013.
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NHS Leeds PCT expects £23m surplus
NHS Leeds PCT is expected to record a year-end surplus of £23.2 million, in line with the control total agreed with the SHA.
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Bradford Care Trust took 'appropriate' action over homicide
PERFORMANCE: An independent review into a homicide committed by a service user of Bradford District Care Trust’s mental health services has determined that actions taken to investigate the incident were appropriate.
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Scarborough CCG may reopen MIU
STRUCTURE: A clinical commissioning group is looking to reopen a minor injuries unit at weekends – just a few months after the local PCT closed it to save money.
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Harrogate FT records below target suplus
FINANCE: Harrogate and District Foundation Trust had a surplus of £1.7m after the first eight months of the financial year - £1.2m less than planned.
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Hull and East Yorks forecasts £3.5m surplus
FINANCE: Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust is forecasting a surplus of £3.5m this financial year - £1.3m behind its original plans.
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Leeds Hospitals short of emergency registrars
PERFORMANCE: A shortage of emergency medicine specialty registrars is one of the factors in poor A&E performance at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust. A report to the trust board said that there was a 60 per cent vacancy rate for these posts across the trust. Consultants are working nights, locum doctors ...
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£5m risk identified by Leeds Hospitals
FINANCE: Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has £5m of income at risk in the last few weeks of this financial year.
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Leeds Hospitals appoints COO and medical and nursing directors
WORKFORCE: Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has made three key board appointments.
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A&E wait problems at Airedale FT
PERFORMANCE: Airedale Foundation Trust could be found in significant breach of its authorisation after it failed to meet the 95 per cent performance target for treating A&E patients in the third quarter, coming in at 94.6 per cent.
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Airedale identifies need to reuce operating costs
FINANCE: Airedale Foundation Trust cannot sustain the current level of operating costs within its income as it moves into 2013-14, the board has been warned