All MAIDSTONE AND TUNBRIDGE WELLS NHS TRUST articles – Page 5
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HSJ LocalFormer acute trust boss to lead six CCGs
A former acute trust chief executive is to head the new single strategic commissioner covering six clinical commissioning groups in Kent and Medway.
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NewsHighest and lowest trusts in each area for staff witnessing care mistakes
A breakdown by area of acute trusts by the share of staff saying they had witnessed potentially harmful errors, near misses or incidents in the last month, in the 2017 NHS staff survey.
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NewsIn full: Pathology network proposals
HSJ approached the 29 pathology networks proposed by NHS Improvement to ask if local trusts had signed up. In most cases the proposed “hub” trust was able to answer on behalf of its network.
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NewsRevealed: 58 trusts admit they will miss financial plan
NHS Improvement has accepted formal revisions to the financial forecasts of almost 60 NHS trusts, according to data published today.
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HSJ LocalTrust seeks £15m DH support as deficit forecast balloons
A trust in financial special measures is to seek up to £15m of working capital support from the Department of Health after its planned deficit quadrupled.
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HSJ LocalFormer St George's boss appointed trust chief executive
Miles Scott, the former chief executive of St George’s University Hospitals Foundation Trust, has been appointed to run Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust.
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NewsCounty leaders plan major stroke service shake-up
Kent and Medway is hoping to become the first area to offer patients thrombectomy outside a neuroscience centre as part of a wider shake-up of stroke services, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalTrust could pay nurses 'finder's fee' to help recruitment
An NHS trust is exploring whether to pay nursing staff a “finder’s fee” for recommending other nurses to come and work at the provider.
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HSJ LocalHospital trust may hire mobile morgue for winter
A hospital trust in the south of England may hire a mobile morgue and use local funeral directors’ facilities as part of its preparations for winter.
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HSJ LocalTrust chief steps down after 10 years to focus on STP
The longstanding chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust is stepping down to run the Kent and Medway sustainability and transformation partnership full time.
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NewsCCG targets millions in savings under Right Care programme
West Kent CCG uses NHS Right Care data to identify five priority areas for savings Plans to reduce A&E attendances and prescribing costs Investment needed to change care models that no longer meeting patients’ needs Commissioners in Kent plan to save more than £7m by reducing unwarranted variation ...
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NewsExclusive: Special measures trusts forced to pay higher interest on bailouts
Trusts in financial special measures are paying interest rates up to four times higher than some other providers Barts Health Trust faces annual interest charges of £6m Experts liken the higher rates to “kicking someone when they’re down” The DH says rates are designed to “reflect the additional risk ...
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NewsAnalysis: The trusts posing the biggest risk to NHS's financial plan
HSJ analysis shows which providers must deliver the biggest improvement in the final three months of 2016-17 If the average performance in the first nine months is projected across the whole year, the sector would report a deficit of £1.14bn, against the £580m control total Hospital trusts with ...
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Big reveals and a welcome warning
HSJ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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HSJ LocalNew plan for troubled trust assumes £37m financial improvement
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust plans to deliver £37m of financial improvements by March Most of the improvements to be delivered through additional revenue Regulators said trust’s pay bill growth was “excessive” An NHS trust in financial special measures is now planning to deliver £37m of financial improvements ...
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NewsRevealed: New oversight ratings for every NHS trust
Each trust placed in one of four categories based on the level of support they require from NHS Improvement Trusts will be formally categorised next month as part of the regulator’s new “single oversight framework” Thirty-five out of 238 trusts will have “maximum autonomy” See every rating in the ...
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NewsMore trusts considered for 'financial special measures'
Regulators have drawn up a list of more NHS providers to be considered for “financial special measures”.
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: How about some big action on data
The NHS must ensure that informatics’ potential for savings and productivity must be fulfilled quickly
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HSJ LocalMajor South East hospital trust eyes reconfiguration
Three emergency medicine sites in East Kent likely to move to two Seven stroke units likely to reduce to three Vascular services expected to be reconfigured from two sites STRUCTURE: Stroke, vascular and emergency medicine services in Kent and Medway are likely to see major reconfiguration, one of ...
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News£400m of uncertainty in financial forecast as trusts reject control totals
Seventeen trusts that have not agreed control totals with NHS Improvement are predicting a combined deficit of more than £400m for 2016-17.