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
A teaching hospital is considering closing its urology service to out of area referrals, as it struggles to deal with a backlog of cases.
A maternity department facing investigation into more than 100 alleged cases of poor care has been found by the CQC to be repeating mistakes which led to avoidable deaths almost 10 years ago, HSJ can reveal today.
The leader of the Mid Staffordshire public inquiry has been appointed chair of Healthwatch England.
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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