All HSJ Local articles – Page 515
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Posts and beds to go at Princess Alexandra
WORKFORCE: Princess Alexandra Hospital will cut 250 staff posts and 60 beds to meet a £17m savings target in the current financial year.
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Southampton trust misses targets on waiting times
PERFORMANCE: Southampton University Hospitals Trust has fallen short on three of waiting times indicators.
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Bradford hospital wrongly tells woman of miscarriage
PERFORMANCE: For two weeks a pregnant woman was led to believe her unborn baby had died, before eventually being told a mistake had been made and her child was alive and well.
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New appointment service introduced at Ashford
FINANCE: Ashford and St Peter’s introduced a new appointment confirmation service this month, which it hopes will save £1m by the end of the financial year.
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Ashford celebrates one year MRSA free
PERFORMANCE: Ashford and St Peter’s has reported 365 days without a hospital acquired MRSA bacteraemia at the trust – one of only 11 in England to do so.
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Consultation on patient transport in Sussex
PERFORMANCE: NHS Sussex, the county’s new primary care trust cluster, held a public consultation exercise this month to improve its non-urgent Patient Transport Service.
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Surrey and Sussex Healthcare forced to turn patients away in July
PERFORMANCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare experienced significant pressure on its accident and emergency unit during the last two weeks of July, resulting in patients being diverted to other trusts.
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Review into ‘poor’ palliative care completed at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare
PERFORMANCE: The trust has completed an internal review into end of life care sparked by an episode of the Channel 4 Dispatches programme.
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Bristol trust chief executive announces retirement
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of North Bristol Trust has announced her retirement after 18 months in the post.
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Highest number of overdue patient safety alerts at UH Morecambe Bay
PERFORMANCE: In July the foundation trust was overdue to complete more national patient safety alerts than any other NHS organisation in the country, central alerting system data shows.
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Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust opens new rehab unit
STRUCTURE: The trust has opened a new rehabilitation and recovery unit, as part of its strategy to redesign inpatient care pathways.
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West Sussex reports success in smoking cessation
PERFORMANCE: Around 10,000 people have given up smoking using NHS smoking cessation services in Sussex, according to the county’s primary care trusts.
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New chair elected for Sussex joint commissioning board
WORKFORCE: West Sussex County Council cabinet member Michael Brown has been elected as chair of the West Sussex Joint Commissioning Board.
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East Lancashire children’s nurse selected for national ice hockey team
WORKFORCE: A Blackburn nurse has been selected to play ice hockey for England in Canada.
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Southampton nurses produce women’s cancer guide
WORKFORCE: Two of the trust’s nurses have written a textbook on breast and gynaecological cancers which aims to provide a comprehensive guide for patients and medical staff.
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Trust U-turns over weight loss operation funding
FINANCE: A primary care trust that won two legal battles after rejecting a former policeman’s request for weight-loss surgery has changed its mind and agreed to provide funding for the operation.
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West Kent at ‘extremely high risk’ from QIPP
FINANCE: The primary care trust reported a breakeven position after the first two months of the year, but had to use contingencies to avoid a deficit.
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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh plans 486 post reduction
WORKFORCE: The foundation trust plans to reduce posts by 486 whole time equivalents by 2013-14, its three year plan shows.
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NHS Somerset delegates medicines to GPs
STRUCTURE: NHS Somerset has delegated responsibility for medicines management to the area’s emerging clinical commissioning group.
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Kent cluster still lacking director of finance
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust cluster has reported “good progress” in appointing directors but still has a gap in finance.