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Lancs Hospitals misses four hour target in January
PERFORMANCE: The 95 per cent target for treating A&E patients with four hours was missed in January at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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East Sussex centralises maternity and children's services after 'calamity' warning
A hospital trust is to centralise its consultant-led maternity and paediatric inpatient services onto one site without consulting the public, after an expert team warned of “the potential for calamity”.
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Trust faces £1.5m fine for small C Difficile breach
PERFORMANCE: A trust which has had just one case of clostridium difficile cross infection this year faces a penalty of at least £1.5m for exceeding its target number of cases by three.
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Trauma stretching A&E at Brighton and Sussex
PERFORMANCE: A significant increase in trauma cases is stretching A&E services at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust and affecting its performance against the four hour target.
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Brighton and Sussex has lost 492 bed days to norovirus
PERFORMANCE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has seen 493 bed days lost to norovirus so far this financial year with 225 patients and 55 staff members affected.
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Medway FT missed four hour target
PERFORMANCE: Medway Foundation Trust missed the four hour A&E target in January. But while nearly 93.5 per cent of people were treated, admitted or discharged within four hours one patient had to wait 19 hours and 36 minutes before being admitted.
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Queen Victoria told to improve record keeping
PERFORMANCE: The Queen Victoria Hospital Foundation Trust has been told to improve its record keeping by the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ Local
Royal Surrey records surplus
FINANCE: The Royal Surrey County Hospital Foundation Trust was £400,000 in surplus at the end of December – but made a loss of £200,000 in the month itself, reflecting a small number of working days and patients choosing not to have major surgery around Christmas. It has a revised planned ...
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Sussex Partnership short on savings
FINANCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust has only made £8.7m of its planned £10.9m savings so far this financial year.
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DTOC review at Sussex Partnership
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust has launched a review of delayed transfer of care after the number soared to the highest since it became a foundation trust.
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NewsGovernment's competition rowback 'doesn't address fundamentals'
The government’s changes to controversial secondary legislation covering the contracting of NHS services have sparked disagreement over the effect of the new rules.
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George Eliot Trust working on Lorenzo implementation
COMMERCIAL: George Eliot Trust is working with the Department for Health and IT contractor CSC to implement the Lorenzo electronic patient record system.
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NewsHSJ Live 13.3.2013: Nicholson and Hunt speak at the Innovation Expo
Sir David Nicholson speaks about culture at the Healthcare Innovation Expo, where Jeremy Hunt is also due to talk, and revelation of the new NHS GP deputy medical director.
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NewsDH accepts mortality data 'around' during Nicholson's Mid Staffs oversight
Hospital-level mortality rates were “around at that time” when Sir David Nicholson was chief executive of the heath authority overseeing the Mid Staffordshire Trust, the Department of Health has accepted to HSJ.
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HSJ LocalMorecambe Bay Inquiry chair revealed
PERFORMANCE: The independent inquiry into poor care at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust will be led by Dr Bill Kirkup CBE, local MPs have revealed.
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Regulator demands action over Hull Infirmary assessment unit
PERFORMANCE: Hull Royal Infirmary is not always ensuring safe care for patients in its acute assessment unit, a Care Quality Commission inspection has found.
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NewsHSJ Live 12.3.2013: Are there more Mid Staffs?
Trust chairs believe there are other Mid Staffs-type failures and the rest of the today’s news
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NewsEx-older people's tsar criticises out of hospital obsession
Planning for large reductions in older people in acute hospitals is “absolute la la land”, the government’s former older people’s tsar has told HSJ.
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NewsGovernment drops controversial clause from NHS competition rules
The Department of Health has amended key sections of controversial secondary legislation covering the contracting out of NHS services.
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Aylesbury Vale CCG heading for deficit
FINANCE: Aylesbury Vale clinical commissioning group is forecasting a £1m deficit for 2012-13, driven largely by demand for unscheduled care services.