News – Page 1397
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Patient choice impedes cancer target performance, says Heatherwood FT
PERFORMANCE: Patient choice has been blamed for the foundation trust’s difficulties in meeting a cancer referral to treatment target.
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South Devon Healthcare FT praised for its hip replacements
PERFORMANCE: South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust has won praise for the quality and efficiency of its its fractured neck of femur pathway from the Royal College of Surgeons.
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Heatherwood FT sickness rate costs £720,000 in one month
WORKFORCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has reported that it lost 3,321 working days in April to sickness, at a cost of £720,000.
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CQC finds minor concerns at Queen Alexandra Hospital
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was meeting standards relating to nutrition, but with minor concerns, during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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Shift in maternity demand at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
STRUCTURE: There has been a big rise in the predicted number of births for July at the new Tunbridge Wells Hospital and a corresponding fall at Maidstone Hospital.
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Leighton Hospital passes CQC check but minor concerns noted
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was meeting standards relating to nutrition, but with minor concerns, during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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Stoke Mandeville passes CQC spot check
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was meeting standards relating to nutrition during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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Basingstoke passes CQC spot check
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was meeting standards relating to nutrition during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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Colchester fails CQC dignity and nutrition test
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was not 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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New Kent hospital on schedule for autumn opening
STRUCURE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust says it is making good progress towards fully opening its new Pembury Hospital in September.
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Darent Valley failing to meet CQC essential standards
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was not 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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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells invests £2m in bus service
FINANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is planning investment of over £2m in bus services over the next five years to enhance public transport to its new hospital in Pembury after it fully opens in September.
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South Tyneside fails to make grade on dignity
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was not meeting essential standards relating to dignity during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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NewsFT delays will create near impossible challenge, Monitor warns
Authorising aspirant foundation trusts by 2014 will be an “almost impossible challenge” if the Department of Health decides to “backload” applications, Monitor’s chair has warned.
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NewsCommissioning Board will get funds from public health budget
The NHS Commissioning Board will have access to funding from the public health budget to commission “appropriate” programmes, the government has said.
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NewsSir David made colonel in Territorial Army
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has been made honorary colonel in the 306 Hospital Support Medical Regiment (Volunteers).
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NewsSHA clustering arrangements announced
Clustering arrangements for strategic health authorities will see the country divided into the South, the Midlands, London and the North, it has been announced.
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NewsPHE chief exec to be appointed by April 2012
The government says it expects to have a Public Health England chief executive in post by next April.
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NewsPublic health directors 'expected' to report directly to council chief execs, says DH
The government has confirmed that it “expects” directors of public health to be directly accountable to council chief executives when public health functions transfer to local authorities.
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NewsFour in 10 will get cancer - Macmillian
Rising cancer rates mean that more than four in 10 Britons will be diagnosed with the disease at some point in their lives, according to a study by a leading health charity.