WORKFORCE: NHS Medway Clinical Commissioning Group achieved an average sickness absence rate of 1.31 per cent during March.
This compares to rates of 1.53 per cent for Canterbury and Coastal CCG and 2.77 per cent for West Kent CCG, according to latest available data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
Meanwhile, NHS Surrey achieved an average sickness absence rate of 3.56 per cent during its last three months of existence.
23 July 2013
Building work will get underway within weeks on a new hospital near Ascot, after the board of Frimley Health Foundation Trust gave it the go-ahead.
University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed a new chair.
Junior doctors have worked beyond their contracted terms and conditions more than 63,000 times since 2015, resulting in fines worth more than £250,000, HSJ can reveal today.
A team of medical professionals had to review the notes of 3,200 patients registered at a Kent practice because of “significant” concerns over patient safety.
A social enterprise has won a contract to provide all NHS and council commissioned children’s community services in Medway.
WORKFORCE: A Kent clinical commissioning group is considering bringing in clinicians from Calais to help reduce waiting times and increase choice locally.
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