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
Clinical waste from NHS hospitals has been transported and disposed of in ways which normally breach safety regulations, prompting concerns about capacity in the waste sector.
An NHS trust chief executive has criticised his neighbouring provider for “poor” planning ahead of the part closure of its accident and emergency department next month.
The chairman of a clinical commissioning group in the east Midlands has lost his bid to be re-elected to the post.
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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