Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust – Page 12
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News
Hospitals eye charges for disabled parking spaces
Campaigners have criticised plans to charge disabled people for parking at hospital appointments.
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HSJ Local
Savings shortfall leaves Southport and Ormskirk surplus 96 per cent behind plan
FINANCE: Failure to meet cost improvement programme savings targets has left the trust with a surplus of just £59,000 for the first five months of 2011-12, against a planned surplus of £728,000.
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HSJ Local
Charities pledge £1m to Southport cancer centre
FINANCE: Two charities have pledged £1m towards refurbishing and extending a cancer treatment centre for patients in north Sefton and West Lancashire.
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HSJ Local
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals cash plan anticipates 'PFI support'
FINANCE: The trust has reported that it will be able to manage its cash flow as planned provided it receives “all anticipated financial support” for its private finance initiative development.
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HSJ Local
Aintree FT advises on introduction of medical emergency team at Whiston Hospital
WORKFORCE: The foundation has been advising St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals Trust on its plans to introduce a multidisciplinary medical emergency team, it said in a statement.
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HSJ Local
Super merger plans let down by £116m PFI shortfall
STRUCTURE: A planned merger that would create England’s largest NHS trust would require £116m of support in its first year.
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News
Exclusive: fifth acute trust says it is considering private franchise management
A fifth hospital trust has said it will consider private franchise management.
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HSJ Local
NAO to investigate St Helens and Knowsley FT bid
STRUCTURE: The trust is one of two in the North West to be visited by the National Audit Office for its research on the challenges to achieving foundation trust status, according to a report to the region’s strategic health authority.
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HSJ Local
NAO to probe Pennine Acute FT bid
STRUCTURE: The trust is one of two in the North West to be visited by the National Audit Office for its research on the challenges to achieving foundation trust status, according to a report to the region’s strategic health authority.
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HSJ Local
Warrington and Halton Hospitals fights to retain vascular services
STRUCTURE: Warrington and Halton Hospitals Foundation Trust has vowed to fight a recommendation to reject its bid to become a high volume centre for arterial surgery, as part of a regional reorganisation of vascular services.
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HSJ Local
Southport and Ormskirk falls 45 per cent behind on savings target in Q1
FINANCE: The trust was 45 per cent behind on its challenging cost improvement programme savings at the end of the first quarter of 2011-12, board papers show.
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Comment
One in five organisations who failed April waiting times targets are in North West
A few days after NHS deputy chief executive David Flory issued a curt letter warning the health service not to allow any further failures to hit waiting time targets, an NHS North West board meeting considered the problem.
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Comment
The North West's performance problems
A few days after NHS deputy chief executive David Flory issued a curt letter warning the health service not to allow any further failures to hit waiting times targets, an NHS North West board meeting considered its own share of the problem.
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HSJ Local
Southport and Formby DGH passes CQC tests
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was meeting standards relating to dignity and nutrition during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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HSJ Local
Pennine Acute categorised as “high risk plus” in NHS North West foundation trust pipeline report
STRUCTURE: The trust is one of four categorised as “high risk plus” in NHS North West’s latest update on the progress towards foundation trust status of the non-FTs in its patch.
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HSJ Local
St Helens and Knowsley due to submit foundation trust pipeline agreement by end of July
STRUCTURE: The trust has agreed to submit a formal document detailing how it will reach foundation trust status to the Department of Health by the end of July.
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News
DH to review FT application process to avoid 'embarrassment'
The Department of Health is overhauling the process for checking whether a trust is ready to apply for foundation status to avoid “embarrassing” the health secretary, HSJ has discovered.
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HSJ Local
CQC finds care of elderly patients lacking at more trusts
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has criticised two trusts for not feeding elderly patients properly.
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HSJ Local
Capita grabs toehold in HR as preferred supplier for twelve trusts
COMMERCIAL: Capita has been named “preferred supplier” of HR services for 12 north Merseyside NHS organisations. The deal gives the outsourcing firm a toehold in NHS human resources.