PERFORMANCE: The number of serious incidents reported at Milton Keynes Hospital Foundation Trust has increased by 36 in 11 months compared to the previous year.
By the end of February the trust reported 89 serious incidents since April 2012, compared with a total of 53 incidents reported between April and March 2012.
These incidents include healthcare aqcuired infections, grade 3 and 4 pressure ulcers, slips, trips and falls and other patient safety incidents.
April 2013
A trust has reached an out-of-court settlement with a wrongly excluded senior surgeon and apologised for the “distress” the legal proceedings had caused her.
A troubled private company has terminated a contract to provide dermatology services two months early and at very short notice, HSJ has learned.
A senior coroner is investigating whether the deaths of five patients with eating disorders in Cambridgeshire are connected by systemic care failings, HSJ can reveal.
An acute trust has started rolling a out a three-year programme designed to boost staff well-being and aid recruitment.
Two hospital trusts in separate health economies are looking at the benefits of a “stronger working relationship and collaboration”.
COMMERCIAL: Milton Keynes Hospital Foundation Trust has been given university hospital status as part of plans to create the country’s first private medical school.
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