Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust – Page 20
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Trust to be sentenced over disabled man's death
A hospital trust will be sentenced on Monday after admitting patient safety failings over the death of a severely disabled man.
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Mid Essex trust appoints chair
Mid Essex Hospital Services Trust has appointed Sheila Salmon as its new chair.
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Colchester chief to step down
The chief executive of a hospital trust has announced he is stepping down - three months after the trust’s chair was sacked by Monitor.
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Basildon 'guilty' over patient death
Officials at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust in Essex have today pleaded guilty to health and safety failings that led to the death of a patient with learning disabilities.
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Foundation seeks pay rise below Agenda for Change rate
The only foundation trust outside the national pay framework has made its first real attempt to break away from national pay rates.
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Neil Churchill: advice for managers on giving criticism
As a manager, you are meant to give three pieces of praise for every piece of criticism. That’s the minimum ratio experts believe is effective in encouraging good performance.
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Quality board to adopt 'values' in bid to avoid further rows
The Care Quality Commission, Monitor, Dr Foster Intelligence and others are being asked to follow a set of “values” in the hope of avoiding a repeat of last year’s row over quality reporting.
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Basildon prosecuted over disabled patient's death
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust is being prosecuted over the death of a severely disabled patient.
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CQC calls in high ranking fixer for ‘chaotic’ trust registration process
NHS East of England chief executive Sir Neil McKay has been brought in to “challenge” the Care Quality Commission as it prepares to register every trust by 1 April.
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Work needed at Basildon and Thurrock - Andy Burnham
More work needs to be done to improve standards at a scandal-hit NHS foundation trust, health secretary Andy Burnham has told MPs.
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Basildon faces legionnaires' probe
Health chiefs are investigating a possible outbreak of legionnaires’ disease at a hospital that was recently under scrutiny for blood splattered equipment and an unusually high patient mortality rate.
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Basildon and Thurrock making progress on hygiene, says CQC
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital Foundation Trust has made an “encouraging start” to improving hygiene standards, inspectors have found.
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Leader
Populist blame culture stifles openness
The introduction of mandatory safety breach reporting has superficial voter appeal, but problems lurk beneath.
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Safety outcry is ‘mandate’ for NHS quality
Public outcry about apparently unsafe hospitals gives the health service a mandate to put quality ahead of finance in planning and providing services, the NHS medical director has said.
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Cynthia Bower defends CQC in mortality furore
Care Quality Commission chief executive Cynthia Bower has defended NHS regulation after a string of events threatened to shatter public confidence in the safety of services.
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Leader
Successful trusts must not let their stories be overshadowed
The past week has seen the NHS endure its worst reputational battering since the Mid Staffordshire scandal in March.
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Are death rates fair? You decide
Drip, drip, drip. No, not the sound of a hospital “deep clean” in action, but the horror-on-horror, day-by-day reporting in the run-up to and wake of the publication of Dr Foster’s annual Hospital Guide.
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Andy Burnham defends NHS targets
The health secretary has defended the government’s targets for the NHS in the wake of failings at several hospitals.
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CQC 'sees no need to intervene'
The Care Quality Commission has said it sees no need to intervene in more hospitals despite new research suggesting 12 acute trusts are significantly underperforming.
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Basildon responds to CQC report
The Essex foundation trust at the centre of the latest round of criticism over care failings says it has already begun to tackle the problems uncovered by Care Quality Commission inspectors.