All HSJ Local articles – Page 498

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Delayed transfers of care rise in Coventry and Warwickshire

2011-09-23T16:18:00Z

PERFORMANCE: An action plan to tackle rising rates of delayed transfers of care has been agreed in Warwickshire.

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West Midlands trauma care review due to complete in February

2011-09-23T16:15:00Z

STRUCTURE: West Midlands Specialised Commissioning is expecting to complete a review of trauma care in the region by February 2012.

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Notts County abandons extended hours aim

2011-09-23T16:13:00Z

PERFORMANCE: NHS Nottinghamshire County has given up on a target to offer all patients access to GP practices with extended hours.

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Drop in GP referrals loses Nottingham Hospitals half a million pounds

2011-09-23T15:49:00Z

FINANCE: A significant drop in GP referrals has led to a 5 per cent drop in new outpatient attendances at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust.

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GPs failing to convey 'urgency' to suspected cancer patients

2011-09-23T15:49:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Suspected breast cancer patients are missing hospital appointments because GPs are failing to inform them how urgently their symptoms need to be treated.

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Reforms linked to staff sickness at Notts County PCT

2011-09-23T15:47:00Z

WORKFORCE: NHS Nottinghamshire County is experiencing an increase in staff sickness levels related to organisational change.

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Warwickshire stroke services behind target

2011-09-23T12:37:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Stroke services in Warwickshire are behind target, with George Eliot Hospital and South Warwickshire Foundation Trust both significantly underperforming.

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NHS North West brings forward health visitor recruitment plans

2011-09-23T11:40:00Z

WORKFORCE: The strategic health authority has increased the number of health visitor training posts it will need to meet the government’s recruitment drive from 603 to 715, after the Department of Health raised questions about its original plan.

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Poor prescribing at root of C difficile problems in Tameside and Glossop

2011-09-22T18:46:00Z

PERFORMANCE: An analysis of the Tameside and Glossop area’s high rate of C difficile infection in the first three months of 2011-12 has found that the majority of cases were avoidable, and due to inappropriate prescribing.

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Board report indicates problem with new A&E quality measure

2011-09-22T18:43:00Z

PERFORMANCE: A south London trust has highlighted a problem with one of the A&E activity measures.

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Leicester GPs refuse to carry out health checks

2011-09-22T18:04:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Only 33 out of 50 GP practices have signed up to the NHS Health Checks programme in West Leicester CCG.

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NHS London raises bar for non-FTs with gloomy tariff assumptions

2011-09-22T18:02:00Z

FINANCE: NHS London has ordered non-FTs to plan for a 1.5 per cent deflation in the tariff for the next five years in their applications for FT status.

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University Hospitals Leicester asked for assurance on quality

2011-09-22T17:44:00Z

PERFORMANCE: NHS Leicester City has written to University Hospitals of Leicester Trust after it failed to deliver on agreed improvement plans on a number of patient safety areas.

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Manchester fires starting gun on major reconfiguration

2011-09-22T17:26:00Z

STRUCTURE: Primary care trusts across greater Manchester have agreed to pool resources worth tens of millions of pounds a year to fund a major reconfiguration of the city’s planned and emergency hospital services.

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Costs data submitted by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals ‘incorrect’

2011-09-22T17:24:00Z

FINANCE: The foundation was among the 12 per cent of NHS trusts whose 2009-10 reference cost submissions were materially inaccurate, the Audit Commission reported today.

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Change of plan for Bassetlaw community services

2011-09-22T17:24:00Z

STRUCTURE: Bassetlaw Primary Care Trust’s community services, which had been due to become part of Rotherham Foundation Trust, will now go to Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust instead.

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St George's to split HR director role with university

2011-09-22T17:22:00Z

WORKFORCE: At a staff meeting, employees of the south London trust were told about plans to share the human resources director post with St George’s University of London medical school.

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Super merger plans let down by £116m PFI shortfall

2011-09-22T06:00:00Z

STRUCTURE: A planned merger that would create England’s largest NHS trust would require £116m of support in its first year.

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Mid Staffs seeks bailout to avert cash crisis

2011-09-22T00:00:00Z

FINANCE: Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has sunk so much money into resolving its care quality failures it will run out of cash by December unless it secures a bailout.

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Arden cluster plans commissioning support service

2011-09-21T17:49:00Z

STRUCTURE: The Arden cluster of primary care trusts is planning a commissioning support service with around 200 staff.