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HSJ LocalPeer review finds 'serious concerns' at Mid Staffs
A peer review of breast cancer surgery services at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has uncovered a catalogue of concerns and safety fears - despite the trust assessing them as being largely compliant with national standards.
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Competition from the US shrinks private paediatric work at Guy's
COMMERCIAL: Guy’s and St Thomas’s Foundation Trust has downgraded its earnings forecast for work at its Evelina Children’s Hospital, after losing business to US providers.
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SHA investigation highlights Leicester concerns
A lack of vision and clinical strategy risks “inhibiting improvement in clinical care” at the University Hospitals of Leicester, according to a Midlands and East strategic health authority cluster investigation.
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NewsStruggling FTs may face insolvency regime in 2013-14 - Hay
Monitor may need to place some NHS foundation trusts in administration as soon as 2013-14 – the first year its powers to do so take effect, the regulator’s chief operating officer has suggested.
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Pensioner jailed over chief executive harassment
A 74-year-old woman who harassed a hospital chief executive and turned up at a doctor’s house with a meat hammer has been jailed for four weeks.
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Heatherwood and Wexham Park finances off target
FINANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust reported an adverse financial position of £351,000 in the year to June.
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Guy's and St Thomas' has nursing shortfall of 111
WORKFORCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust has a shortfall of 111 nurses, a report reveals
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A&E target missed at Guy's and St Thomas'
PERFORMANCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust has missed its A&E target for quarter one of this financial year.
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Guy's and St Thomas's planning on £13m in Project Diamond funding
FINANCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust is planning on receiving £13m in Project Diamond funding, the top-up payment NHS London makes to trusts that do a lot of specialist work.
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North East NHS 111 go live delayed
STRUCTURE: The first go live date for NHS 111 has been delayed due to a lack of local GP engagement and outstanding contractual issues with the provider, HSJ has learned.
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Heatherwood FT slips on waiting list backlog
PERFORMANCE: Bosses at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust have warned that their ability to cut a backlog in long waiters could be “in jeopardy” as extra cash to deal with the issue runs out.
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Monitor warns of risks to Yeovil's plans
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has judged Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust is a “high risk” due to recent personnel changes and lack of financial headroom.
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Proposal to centralise pathology at St George's
STRUCTURE: The London review of pathology services has proposed centralising pathology in south west London at St George’s Hospital.
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Fifteen nurse hours per bed day at Shelford Group trusts
WORKFORCE: Research carried for the Shelford Group, which represents England’s most powerful teaching hospitals, shows each patient bed day accounts for an average of 15 nurse hours.
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OUH named as worst performer in the south on A&E
PERFORMANCE: Oxford University Hospitals Trust was the worst performer on accident and emergency in the south of England in quarter one of 2012-13.
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Plymouth avoids being 'escalated' as it delays FT application
STRUCTURE: Plymouth Hospitals Trust has pushed back its target date for applying to become a foundation trust.
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NewsMPs: community hospitals are 'key to NHS'
Community hospitals should be valued by the NHS as a key part of the NHS, the government has been told.
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Focus on falls at Lincolnshire Trust
PERFORMANCE: United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has launched a major push to prevent patients falling whilst in hospital.
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Estates arm of Guy's and St Thomas' identifies £6m in extra income
COMMERCIAL: The estates and infrastructure arm of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust believes there is potentially an extra £6m in profit to be made for the trust on “higher margin traded services”.
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Guy's and St Thomas' estate services target work in Leeds
COMMERCIAL: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust is considering bidding to run the “energy performance contract” for Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and the University of Leeds.