All HSJ Local articles – Page 524
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Worcestershire Acute submits action plan to address stroke failings
PERFORMANCE: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust has submitted an action plan to NHS West Midlands to address poor performance against stroke and TIA indicators.
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Portsmouth hospital demand levels exceed contract
FINANCE: Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has signed its main commissioner contract, but is already reporting that demand is outstripping the agreed level of activity.
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Performance on targets costing West Suffolk £350,000 in first quarter
FINANCE: Failure on performance targets have cost West Suffolk Hospital Trust £350,000 in the first quarter of the financial year, according to a board report.
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Herefordshire 'significantly' missing stroke target
PERFORMANCE: NHS Herefordshire remains significantly far away from achieving the target for 80 per cent of stroke patients’ time to be spent on a stroke unit.
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New chair at Rotherham Foundation Trust
WORKFORCE: A new chair has been appointed to The Rotherham Foundation Trust.
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Royal Free to submit its foundation trust application in August
STRUCTURE: A document produced by NHS London rating its monthly progress against different organisational milestones said the north London acute planned to apply to the strategic health authority in August.
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Portsmouth trust falls behind on capital programme
FINANCE: Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has spent just £103,000 of its capital budget for 2011-12 by the end of May, having planned to spend £2.1m.
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London Ambulance Service to submit its foundation trust application in September
STRUCTURE: The capital’s ambulance service plans to apply to NHS London to become a foundation trust in September, according to internal SHA documents.
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Lewisham Healthcare and London Ambulance Service told to prove patient safety assurances as they work toward FT status
WORKFORCE: London Ambulance Service and Lewisham Healthcare Trust have been asked to provide more information on workforce issues by NHS London.
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District general hospital selects FT as takeover partner
STRUCTURE: Trafford Healthcare Trust, with a turnover of £96m, has selected a takeover partner from bids submitted by two nearby foundation trusts.
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NHS chief warns South Essex CCGs may 'fragment'
STRUCTURE: The chief executive of the NHS has said the formation of clinical commissioning groups in south Essex could lead to “fragmentation”.
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Out of hours risk in Cambridgeshire
STRUCTURE: New arrangements for out of hours GP services in Cambridgeshire risk increasing “serious incidents”, according to the local primary care trust.
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South East London cluster promises 'robust list validation' process for GP practices
PERFORMANCE: A report to the cluster’s board said the list validation would include “a one-off programme and an ongoing rolling programme”.
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Cambridgeshire sets limits on providers to cut patient transfer delays
PERFORMANCE: NHS Cambridgeshire has set “contractual limits” to reduce beds being blocked by delays in transfering patients in the area, according to a letter from the strategic health authority.
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Chesterfield Royal expands opthalmology services
FINANCE: Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust is planning to attract business for opthalmology services from neighbouring hospitals.
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Leeds and Bradford and Airedale form late PCT cluster
STRUCTURE: Leeds PCT and Bradford and Airedale Teaching PCT, which had been due to remain separate organisations, will now merge into a single cluster.
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Integrated provider slashes DTOC in Herefordshire
PERFORMANCE: Wye Valley Trust, England’s first organisation to to provide integrated acute, community and social care services, has released savings of almost £400,000 a month through reductions in delayed transfer of care.
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South London A&E performance running at winter peak levels in May and June
PERFORMANCE: The south east London cluster reported A&E performance as “extremely poor” at all of its main providers except Lewisham Hospital.
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Tees, Esk and Wear MH buys £4.3m data system
COMMERCIAL: Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation Trust has awarded a £4.3m contract to Advanced Business Solutions to provide an “Integrated Information Centre”, including data warehousing and business intelligence analytics.
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Leeds Partnerships FT seeks new name
STRUCTURE: Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a new name after taking on community services.