PERFORMANCE: Kettering General Hospital has reported 30 grade three and four pressure ulcers since last April, the cluster board for Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes PCTs heard.
“An intensive work programme is in place and had delivered a reduction in the number of pressure sores reported in October, November and December,” the board heard.
Quality report
January
Human body parts from NHS patients have been stored in unrefrigerated units for more than six months resulting in a smell of “decaying flesh” at a scandal hit waste management company, according to Environment Agency documents seen by HSJ.
A special measures trust is shifting nearly all its elective orthopaedic work out of its main hospital as part of a raft of initiatives aimed at getting out of special measures.
The company which stockpiled dozens of NHS trusts’ clinical waste, including human body parts, has ceased operations and made its staff redundant.
A financially troubled NHS trust has accepted its control total for 2018-19, despite the finance director saying it should be rejected in draft plans.
An NHS England director has been appointed as the new chief executive of Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust.
Kettering General Hospital Trust is to share a chair with the Princess Alexandra Trust despite the pair not being in the same geographical or organisational patch.
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