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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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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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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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£4.9m surplus at the Christie
FINANCE: The Christie Foundation Trust had a surplus of £4.9m at the end of December - £1.6m ahead of plan.
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Bradford and Airedale CCG reviewing special needs services
STRUCTURE: Bradford and Airedale CCG has launched a consultation in partnership with Bradford Council to review local services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
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Manchester cancer 'board' to replace network
STRUCTURE: A cancer providers board is to be set up in Greater Manchester and Cheshire to replace the existing cancer network. All trusts which want to provide cancer services will be expected to belong.
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Manchester scientists in tumour gene breakthrough
RESEARCH: Scientists from Manchester Biomedical Research Centre at St Mary’s Hospital and the University of Manchester have identified a new gene responsible for causing a common tumour affecting the brain and spine. Although these spinal meningiomas can be removed by surgery, they can reoccur and sometime run in families.
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New neuro unit for East Lancs
SERVICES: Childrens’ specialist neurodevelopment services are to be brought together in a new unit at East Lancashire Hospitals Trust.
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Three north west trusts to collaborate on 'sustainability'
STRUCTURE: Three trusts to the south of Manchester are to work more closely together.
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Hopes for no more C Diff at Lancs Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust is hoping to see no more C difficile cases in the last weeks of the financial year.
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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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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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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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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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NewsMost chairs back Francis's recommended rules for board members
Nearly three-quarters of hospital and mental health provider chairs back the introduction of a “fit and proper person test” for membership of trust boards
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NewsTrust chairs believe there are other Mid Staffs-type failures
“A small number” of trusts are failing in a similar way to Mid Staffordshire, HSJ survey finds
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Aggregate hospital ratings 'risk leaving out what matters'
A study into quality ratings for hospital trusts has found that single organisational measures - which are being explored by the government - “run the risk of leaving out what matters to patients with specific conditions”.
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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.