All HSJ Local articles – Page 334
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Buckinghamshire CCGs overspend by £1.3m on elective care
FINANCE: Buckinghamshire’s clinical commissioning groups have reported an overspend on planned care of £1.3m in the year to date.
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HSJ LocalBristol children's cardiac ward where patient died was understaffed
PERFORMANCE: Managers at University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust have been criticised by the Care Quality Commission for failing to address long running staffing issues on a ward for seriously ill children.
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Barts Health Trust has 20 year-plus waiters, ahead of DH crackdown
PERFORMANCE: Barts Health Trust has 20 patients who have been waiting more than a year for treatment, a report reveals.
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Whittington hitting delayed transfers of care target
PERFORMANCE: Whittington Health Trust is hitting its target for keeping delayed transfers of care low, despite problems transferring to Islington care homes.
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Whittington Health Trust theatre utilisation behind target
PERFORMANCE: Whittington Health Trust is 14 per cent short of its local target of 95 per cent theatre utilisation.
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Whittington Health Trust increases ward rounds to hit A&E target
PERFORMANCE: A report to the board of Whittington Health Trust said: “Emergency department performance against the four-hour target is causingconcern.”
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King’s Lynn records five never events
PERFORMANCE: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn FT has reported five never events to date this year.
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Whittington finances ahead of plan
FINANCE: Whittington Health Trust is ahead of plan by £295,000 at month six, board papers reveal.
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Luton and Dunstable behind budget
Luton and Dunstable University Hospital FT is £600,000 behind its budget plan submitted to Monitor, according to its mid-year financial report.
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Barts Health Trust gets Cyberknife
PERFORMANCE: Barts Health Trust has now started offering services with Cyberknife cancer technology.
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Barts Health Trust 'national outlier' for infections
PERFORMANCE: Barts Health Trust is a “national outlier” in MRSA infections, a report to the trust’s board said.
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Barts Health Trust misses A&E target for quarter two
PERFORMANCE: Barts Health Trust has missed the 95 per cent accident and emergency target for quarter two, a report reveals.
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Fax hitch hits Berkshire cancer performance
PERFORMANCE: A fax server failure has led to a backlog in cancer waits in Berkshire.
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Emerging pressures spotted in Berkshire ambulance service
PERFORMANCE: The Berkshire primary care trust cluster has reported “emerging pressures” emerging in ambulance services.
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HSJ LocalSurgeons in safety row blame managers
Two Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust surgeons at the centre of a row about safety concerns have blamed the trust’s management for problems and called for an investigation.
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HSJ LocalProvider sparks probe into placement claim
COMMERCIAL: A primary care trust is refusing to fund placements at a privately run facility for patients with learning disabilities because of its proximity to the site of a scandal-hit NHS hospital, it has been claimed.
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Heatherwood and Wexham Park misses waiting time target in two specialties
PERFORMANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust missed its waiting time target in the trauma and orthopaedics and ear nose and throat specialties, primary care trust board papers show.
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Berkshire East releases reserves to hit surplus target
FINANCE: Berkshire East primary care trust was forecasting it would achieve its planned surplus for 2012-13, after committing to releasing contingency funding to cover overspends on several providers.
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ACAS bought in to Carillion dispute
WORKFORCE: Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust’s private finance initiative partner Carillion have approached the Advisory, Concillation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) to mediate in its long running dispute with hospitality staff.
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Great Western struggles for chemo capacity
PERFORMANCE: Patients are waiting up to three weeks for chemotherapy at Great Western Hospital Foundation Trust due to major capacity problems.