All HSJ Local articles – Page 421
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Royal Devon almost escalated over infection performance
PERFORMANCE: Poor performance against C difficile limits led Monitor to consider whether Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust was in significant breach of its authorisation.
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West Yorkshire cluster gets new finance director
WORKFORCE: Ian Currell has been appointed as Cluster Director of Finance and will take up his post during April 2012.
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Suffolk assets worth £29.2m set for NHS Property Services
FINANCE: Properties worth more than £29m look likely to be transferred to NHS Property Services Ltd if Suffolk primary care trust signs a deal with preferred bidder Serco.
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IT savings for Kent and Medway partnership
FINANCE: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust saved £500,000 by completing its rollout of the RiO IT system three months ahead of schedule.
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Patient ‘passport’ launched at East Kent Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has launched an initiative designed to aid communication between the trust and patients with learning disabilities.
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Social enterprise chair named best in sector
WORKFORCE: Ian Church, chair of Central Surrey Health, has been named by the Sunday Times as the best non-executive director within the public service sector.
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New maternity training aid for Western Sussex Hospitals
WORKFORCE: A new birthing simulator teaching aid is to be introduced at Worthing Hospital.
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Kent and Medway partnership behind on 28 day re-admission target
PERFORMANCE: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has warned that it is behind with quality account plans to reduce the rate of re-admissions for adolescents.
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One compulsory redundancy follows QVH ward closure
WORKFORCE: One member of staff was made compulsorily redundant following the closure of a ward at Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, according to board papers.
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Alan Maynard appointed to York CCG board
STRUCTURE: Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group has announced the appointment of two lay board members, including experienced health economist Professor Alan Maynard.
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North Bristol Trust plans private patient unit
North Bristol Trust is seeking a commercial partner to build and run a stand-alone private patient unit next to its new private finance initiative hospital.
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New chief exec and chair for Croydon after current chair steps down
WORKFORCE: The chair of Croydon Health Services is stepping down shortly after the chief executive departed.
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Essex trusts form limited company with university and council
STRUCTURE: South Essex Partnership University Foundation Trust has formed a limited company with four other NHS trusts, Essex County Council and a university.
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Oxford and Southampton named as trauma centres
STRUCTURE: John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and Southampton General have been named as the South Central region’s two major trauma centres.
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Torbay looks to collaborate with acute trust
STRUCTURE: Torbay Care Trust and South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust have agreed to “strengthen their levels of collaboration”.
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Liverpool Community Health names new medical director
WORKFORCE: The trust has appointed Craig Gradden, currently of Aintree University Hospitals, as medical director.
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New Plymouth social enterprise below average on staff engagement
WORKFORCE: Plymouth Community Health scored below average on four key indicators of staff engagement in the 2011 NHS staff survey.
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Northants and Milton Keynes performance under closer SHA scrutiny
PERFORMANCE: NHS Midlands and East has stepped up its monitoring of the Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes primary care trust cluster amid substandard performance in A&E and urgent care.
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Coventry and Warwickshire faces 'significant underdelivery' of CIPs
FINANCE: Significant under delivery of the cost improvement programme means that only £20m of the £28m target is now forecast to be achieved.
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George Eliot Trust awards itself amber-red governance rating
PERFORMANCE: George Eliot Hospital Trust’s self-assessed governance risk rating for quarter four is amber-red, after the trust missed targets on C difficile and accident and emergency care.