PERFORMANCE: Average length of stay for mental health patients treated by Leicestershire Partnership Trust have crept up to 63.6 days against a target of 53.9 days, the board was told.
A review is underway with detailed analysis of patients who stay longer than 100 days; a number of very long stay patients is thought to have skewed the figures.
February 2012
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire clinical commissioning groups have appointed a single accountable officer, it has been announced.
Nurses, GPs and mental health staff are “the big three” areas where the health and social care secretary is most concerned about staff shortages, he told HSJ.
Regional chiefs have identified Norfolk as a trouble spot this winter, with local ambulance handover delays described as a “major problem”, according to leaked meeting minutes obtained by HSJ.
STRUCTURE: Leicester Partnership Trust and West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group are to relocate community nursing and musculoskeletal services from Ashby and District Hospital to a leisure centre.
STRUCTURE: Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust has appointed a new acting chief executive.
WORKFORCE: Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust has appointed Adrian Childs as its new chief nurse, from Manchester Mental Health Social Care NHS Trust.
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