Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust – Page 21
-
HSJ Local
Competition watchdog clears Trafford Healthcare takeover
STRUCTURE: The NHS competition watchdog has approved Central Manchester University Hospitals’ proposed takeover of Trafford Healthcare Trust, the hospital known as the “birthplace of the NHS”.
-
HSJ Local
Central Manchester loses appeal against £1m race discrimination award
WORKFORCE: The foundation has lost its appeal against an employment tribunal which awarded one of its former managers around £1m for unfair dismissal and racial discrimination.
-
HSJ Local
Mothers and babies still at 'significant' risk at Morecambe Bay
PERFORMANCE: The safety of mothers and babies at the foundation’s Furness General Hospital remains at “significant risk”, according to a new independent review commissioned by foundation trust regulator Monitor.
-
HSJ Local
Trafford takeover will give Central Manchester FT 22pc market share
STRUCTURE: Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust’s proposed takeover of Trafford Healthcare Trust would give it a market share of more than a fifth of all admissions in Greater Manchester, it has told the NHS’s competition watchdog.
-
News
Hospital mergers have little benefit, study suggests
Waiting times have risen and financial performance has declined at NHS hospitals following mergers, a study has found.
-
HSJ Local
Former Central Manchester FT manager awarded £1m in race discrimination tribunal
WORKFORCE: An employment tribunal has awarded a former manager at Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust nearly £1m damages for racial discrimination and unfair dismissal.
-
HSJ Local
Central Manchester FT scores 79.2 per cent against 18 week target in October
PERFORMANCE: Just 79.2 per cent of the foundation’s admitted patients completed in October were treated within 18 weeks, against a national target of 90 per cent, latest Department of Health figures show.
-
HSJ Local
Altrincham Hospital rebuild set to be delayed until November 2012
STRUCTURE: The start of work to rebuild the trust’s Altrincham General Hospital is set to be pushed back a year, to November 2012, a revised timeline for the project shows.
-
HSJ Local
£5.4m bailout for Trafford dependant on ‘accountability agreement’
FINANCE: Trafford Healthcare Trust would need to conclude an “accountability agreement” with its commissioners to secure a further £5.4m tranche of “transitional” funding, its last board meeting was told.
-
News
Nicholson predicts between 14 and 18 academic health science networks
Academic health science networks could be set up in between 14 to 18 health economies in England, the NHS chief executive has said.
-
HSJ Local
Manchester acute trusts fall behind on performance
PERFORMANCE: Acute trusts across Greater Manchester are failing on performance targets and in some areas things have got worse recently, the PCT cluster board heard.
-
News
'Top leaders' to help trusts get through FT pipeline
The NHS Top Leaders programme has launched a drive to send senior managers into NHS trusts needing help with savings plans or getting through the foundation trust pipeline.
-
News
Integrated care plans 'will not save money for three years'
Integrated care systems are unlikely to demonstrate financial savings for at least three years, a Nuffield Trust study into Trafford’s pioneering work in the field has said.
-
HSJ Local
Former council chief exec appointed to major review of Trafford acute services
STRUCTURE: A former chief executive of Stockport Council has been appointed chairman of a major review of hospital services in Trafford.
-
HSJ Local
Over 20 mixed sex breaches in September for UHSM
PERFORMANCE: University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust recorded 22 breaches of the Department of Health’s guidelines on mixed sex accommodation last month.
-
HSJ Local
Central Manchester FT records five mixed sex breaches
PERFORMANCE: Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust recorded five breaches of the Department of Health’s guidelines on mixed sex accommodation last month.
-
HSJ Local
Takeover plans may have led to £1m emergency admissions shortfall at Trafford Healthcare
FINANCE: News of the trust’s need to be taken over by a larger foundation may have driven a £1m shortfall in its emergency admissions income in the first four months of 2011-12, its latest board papers suggest.
-
HSJ Local
UH South Manchester surplus and savings behind plan
FINANCE: The foundation reported a year-to-date surplus of £335,000 at the end of August, against a planned surplus of £759,000 to that point in the financial year.
-
HSJ Local
Potential industrial action at two North West path labs, Unite warns
WORKFORCE: Two acute trusts in the North West could face industrial action in their pathology labs.
-
News
Lansley identifies 20 'unsustainable' trusts
The government has identified 20 trusts whose “clinical and financial stability is at risk” because of “cash-flow shortages” and legacy debt.