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Yorkshire lets ten year GP practice contract
FINANCE: A ten-year contract to provide medical services at Thornton and Denholme Medical Practice has been awarded to a group of Shipley-based doctors who are already providing temporary services at the surgery.
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Bradford drops health and wellbeing centre plan
STRUCTURE: Plans to develop a health and wellbeing centre in the Keighley area of Bradford have been dropped in favour of concentrating on an integrated care model.
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Sheffield Children’s Hospital struggles with diagnostic target
PERFRORMANCE: Sheffield Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust failed to carry out diagnostic tests on 30 patients within six weeks in January – meaning that it did not meet the 99 per cent target.
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Board in place for Hillingdon Healthwatch
STRUCTURE: A chair and board have been appointed to Healthwatch Hillingdon, which has a start date of 1 April 2013.
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Hull and East Yorks forecasts £3.5m surplus
FINANCE: Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust is forecasting a surplus of £3.5m this financial year - £1.3m behind its original plans.
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Leeds Hospitals short of emergency registrars
PERFORMANCE: A shortage of emergency medicine specialty registrars is one of the factors in poor A&E performance at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust. A report to the trust board said that there was a 60 per cent vacancy rate for these posts across the trust. Consultants are working nights, locum doctors ...
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£5m risk identified by Leeds Hospitals
FINANCE: Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has £5m of income at risk in the last few weeks of this financial year.
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A&E wait problems at Airedale FT
PERFORMANCE: Airedale Foundation Trust could be found in significant breach of its authorisation after it failed to meet the 95 per cent performance target for treating A&E patients in the third quarter, coming in at 94.6 per cent.
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Uphill battle to meet A&E targets at Barnsley Hospital
PERFORMANCE: Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust will only achieve the 95 per cent target for treating patients within four hours at A&E if it can achieve 98 per cent in the last two months of the year, the trust board heard.
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Barnsley FT plans to cut mortality rates
PERFORMANCE: Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust is hoping to reduce its mortality rates by this autumn. A package of work – including looking at coding, reviewing never events, and an external scrutiny of surgical site infections – is ongoing. The trust also has a project on early warning systems and recognising ...
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Twenty cancer wait breaches at Mid Yorks
PERFORMANCE: Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust has had 20 breaches of the 62 day cancer referral to treatment target in January.
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Bradford Hospitals introduced new home help
STRUCTURE: Patients who are discharged after a stay at Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust are to get extra help at home.
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Calderdale and Huddersfield seeks to speed fracture ops
PERFORMANCE: Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust is taing action to improve its performance on fractured neck of femur operations to ensure patients get into theatre quickly. The trust has a target of treating 85 per cent of patients within 36 hours but its performance this year is only 66 per ...
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Calderdale and Huddersfield looks to reserves for savings
FINANCE: More than a fifth of Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust’s efficiency savings target of £14.2m had still to be identified at the end of month ten and will be met out of reserves. However, the board was told that all but £1.6m of the identified savings were low risk, ...
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Rotherham reduces job cut plans
A hospital trust which said it would need to cut posts by 750 just six months ago is now saying that it will only need to axe 22 whole time equivalent posts among clinical and frontline staff.
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Deficit expected at Humber FT
FINANCE: Humber Foundation Trust is forecasting a £2.9m deficit this year – in part due to the cost of redundancies which will enable it to deliver cost improvements next year.
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Yorkshire ambulance service highlights patients late for travel
PERFORMANCE: Patients who require non-emergency transport to hospital with Yorkshire Ambulance Service often arrive early or late for their appointments.
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Bradford Care Trust took 'appropriate' action over homicide
PERFORMANCE: An independent review into a homicide committed by a service user of Bradford District Care Trust’s mental health services has determined that actions taken to investigate the incident were appropriate.
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New NED at Airedale Foundation Trust
WORKFORCE: Retired consultant in chemical pathology Michael Toop has joined Airedale Foundation Trust as a non-executive director.
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Patient record hitches lead to delays for cancer patients at Rotherham
Cancer patients faced delays in hospital appointments because of issues implementing an electronic patient record system at Rotherham Foundation Trust.