PERFORMANCE: Medway Foundation Trust missed the four hour A&E target in January. But while nearly 93.5 per cent of people were treated, admitted or discharged within four hours one patient had to wait 19 hours and 36 minutes before being admitted.
The patient attended A&E at 9.33pm but, despite seeing a consultant and a surgical referral recommended, it was 5.03pm the next day before they were transferred to a ward.
March 2013
Abi Tierney discusses how support service providers are stepping up to the challenge of care co-ordination
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National officials have privately acknowledged there may be a shortage of incinerator capacity for burning clinical waste – contrary to the government’s public assertions – documents seen by HSJ show.
Medway Foundation Trust is to lose both its finance director and chief executive this autumn – with the medical director also making a sideways move into a different role.
The chief executive who brought one of the most troubled trusts in England out of special measures is set to return to Australia.
A foundation trust with a £62m deficit has sought advice from its external auditors before deciding whether it could declare itself a “going concern.”
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