All HSJ Local articles – Page 473
-
HSJ Local
Amber-red rating for Coventry and Warwickshire over C difficile and waiting times
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust has given itself an amber-red performance rating after falling short on seven Monitor standards.
-
HSJ Local
Leeds Hospitals issued Facebook warnings
WORKFORCE: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has warned nine staff over use of social networking sites since April 2010.
-
HSJ Local
Sheffield Hospitals chief elected chair of NHS Employers policy board
STRUCTURE: NHS Employers has announced Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Sir Andrew Cash as the new chair of its policy board.
-
HSJ Local
Bury ‘patients champion’ charged with £60,000 fraud
WORKFORCE: A “patients champion” and former chair of Bury’s local involvement network has been charged with committing £60,000 of VAT fraud, in the course of half a decade of paid consultancy work for the NHS.
-
HSJ Local
Ashford and St Peter’s bid for Epsom confirmed
STRUCTURE: The board in charge of demerging Epsom and St Helier hospitals to ensure they achieve foundation trust status has confirmed it has received a bid from Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital FT to merge with Epsom.
-
HSJ Local
Overnight power loss at Worthing Hospital
PERFORMANCE: Worthing Hospital lost its mains power supply for more than 12 hours last week.
-
HSJ Local
St George's puts in formal bid for St Helier
STRUCTURE: The south London acute trust was the only bidder to make a formal approach to Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust to run St Helier Hospital.
-
HSJ Local
NHS Surrey reverses IVF funding ban
FINANCE: NHS Surrey has announced it is to reinstate IVF treatment from April 2012.
-
HSJ Local
Doncaster and Bassetlaw says 2,000 A&E admissions down to road collisions
PERFORMANCE: Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust has announced more than 2,000 admissions to its A&E and minor injuries unit between April and September 2011 were due to road traffic collissions, in support of a campaign.
-
HSJ Local
Lewisham Healthcare above average for claims
PERFORMANCE: The south London trust’s number of in-year negligence claims per 10,000 bed days was 2.52 against a national mean of 1.37.
-
HSJ Local
Whittington plans to split benefits of contract 50:50 with GPs
STRUCTURE: The Whittington Health Trust plans to split the benefits of a block contract scheme 50:50 with local GP commissioners, according to its latest strategy document.
-
HSJ Local
Sherwood Forest slips on capital spend
FINANCE: Slippage on capital expenditure due to the delay on the renal scheme remains outside of the 25 per cent tolerance level that Monitor applies to capital spend variances.
-
HSJ Local
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare worst offender for A&E waits
PERFORMANCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare recorded the worst performance during the last quarter for patients waiting more than four hours to be admitted from accident and emergency.
-
HSJ LocalTorbay trust launches first integrated health and social care IT system
COMMERCIAL: England’s first integrated health and social care patient record system has been procured in a £3.8m deal that managers hope will make it easier to join up services.
-
HSJ Local
Community DTOC up at Somerset Partnership
PERFORMANCE: Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust lost more than 500 bed days to delayed discharges during September.
-
HSJ Local
South Warwickshire FT beats surplus target
FINANCE: An injection of “deferred income” has enabled South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust to deliver more than double its target surplus for September.
-
HSJ Local
South Warwickshire FT eyes community assets
STRUCTURE: South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is “confident” it will be allowed to take ownership of community hospitals in its area.
-
HSJ Local
C difficile and A&E improvements for South Warwickshire FT
PERFORMANCE: South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is reporting a “general improvement in performance” for the second quarter of 2011-12.
-
HSJ Local
Worcestershire Acute's radiotherapy unit one step closer
STRUCTURE: Worcester City Council Planning Committee has agreed outline planning permission for a new radiotherapy unit at Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
-
HSJ Local
Midlands announces cluster chairs
WORKFORCE: NHS Midlands and East has announced the appointment of four chairs to the newly created primary care trust cluster organisations across the region and two new trust chairs.