All HSJ Local articles – Page 344
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Warwickshire under delivers on QIPP amid 'paucity' of information
FINANCE: Warwickshire primary care trust has reported a £2.4m under-delivery on quality, innovation, productivity and prevention schemes in the first four months of 2012-13.
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Rise in emergency admissions at Southport and Ormskirk
PERFORMANCE: An increase in emergency admissions at Southport and Ormskirk has pushed NHS Merseyside 2 per cent over its plan for non-elective activity for the year-to-date, the primary care trust cluster has reported.
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Provisional data shows RTT waiting targets underperformance at Walton centre
PERFORMANCE: Provisional June data shows “underperformance” by the Walton Centre against national 18 week referral-to-treatment waiting targets, NHS Merseyside’s latest performance report states.
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Royal Wolverhampton charges disabled to park
FINANCE: Free parking for disabled people has been scrapped at a Midlands hospital with parking charges for short-stay visitors being doubled.
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St Helens and Knowsley exceeds annual MRSA threshold
PERFORMANCE: The trust has already exceeded its target maximum number of MRSA cases for 2012-13, NHS Merseyside’s August performance report shows.
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Mortality rate falls at George Eliot
PERFORMANCE: Reported death rates at George Eliot Hospital have fallen after the “rebasing” of the Dr Foster mortality measure.
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George Eliot gets top marks on PEAT
PERFORMANCE: George Eliot Hospital Trust has scored top marks across the board in this year’s annual patient environmental action team (PEAT) scores.
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DTOCs soar at South Warwickshire
PERFORMANCE: Delayed discharges are far above target at South Warwickshire Foundation Trust.
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Northern Devon puts back FT application a second time
STRUCTURE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust is seeking a revised submission date for its foundation trust application, strategic health authority board papers reveal.
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Patient leaflets help reduce PCT waiting times by half
PERFORMANCE: A pilot project between Wolverhampton City PCT and charity Arthritis Research UK has halved waiting times for physiotherapy appointments and improved patient satisfaction.
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Lack of management capacity hits Coventry QIPP
FINANCE: Coventry’s quality, innovation, productivity and prevention programme is forecast to under-achieve by £3.08m – in part due to a lack of project management capacity.
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Nick Tupper appointed Doncaster CCG chair
WORKFORCE: GP Nick Tupper has been appointed chair of NHS Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group.
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Butterfly scheme to aid peaceful care in A&E
PERFORMANCE: Staff at the University Hospitals of Leicester have embraced a new scheme to show extra respect to the families of those who are dying or have died in the emergency department.
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Commissioners forecast East Lancashire Hospitals overspend of £8.6m
FINANCE: Lancashire commissioners had overspent their budgets for the trust by £2.7m by the end of July, and were forecasting an £8.6m overspend for the full year 2012-13.
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Aintree appeals against third recorded MRSA case
PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust currently has three recorded cases of MRSA for 2012-13, against an annual target of no more than two, commissioner board papers report.
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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals forecast to overperform by £8.1m
FINANCE: Lancashire primary care trusts are forecasting an overspend of £8.1m on their contracts with Blackpool Teaching Hospitals in 2012.
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Wexham Park Hospital expands AMU
STRUCTURE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust is investing more than £2.5m in reconfiguring wards, in anticipation of a rise in emergency attendances.
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Lincolnshire CCG accountable officers named
STRUCTURE: The designate accountable officers of the four clinical commissioning groups within Lincolnshire PCT have been announced.
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Lay chair for Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield CCG
STRUCTURE: NHS Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield CCG has appointed a lay chair.
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'Extreme' risk George Eliot will be unable to agree CIP
FINANCE: George Eliot Hospital Trust has recorded an “extreme” risk that it will be unable to agree its cost improvement plan for the current financial year.