All North West articles – Page 100
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HSJ Local
Lowest flu jab coverage in North for Greater Manchester West staff
WORKFORCE: There was a lower uptake of the seasonal flu vaccine among staff at the trust than in any other provider in the North of England this year.
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HSJ Local
Highest flu jab coverage in North for Royal Liverpool staff
WORKFORCE: There was a higher uptake of the seasonal flu vaccine among staff at the trust than in any other provider in the North of England.
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HSJ Local
£1.3m overspend forecast for Eastern Cheshire clinical commissioners
FINANCE: Eastern Cheshire clinical commissioning group was forecasting a 2011-12 overspend of £1.3m at the end of December, its latest finance report shows.
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HSJ Local
Manchester cancer research centre mulls recruitment drive for clinical academics
WORKFORCE: The Manchester Cancer Research Centre is contemplating appointing 40 to 60 clinical academics, latest board minutes for The Christie Foundation Trust state.
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HSJ Local
‘Block contract’ loses Southport and Ormskirk Hospital £1.6m
FINANCE: A ‘block contract’ with the trust’s main commissioners has lost it around £1.6m for the year to date, its latest finance report suggests.
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HSJ Local
MP calls for probe into regulator following Morecambe Bay scandal
PERFORMANCE: An MP has called for an inquiry into foundation trust regulator Monitor after its chairman admitted it was “very likely” there were deeper problems present at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay when it was granted FT status.
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HSJ Local
Community hospitals consultation will be more than 12 months overdue
STRUCTURE: A long-awaited public consultation on the future of community hospitals on the Fylde Coast has been put back again, until “at least the summer” - a year after it was due to take place.
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NewsMonitor should toughen assessments following scandal - Bennett
Monitor’s executive chair has admitted it is “very likely” University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay had “deep-seated problems” at the time his organisation granted the trust foundation status.
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HSJ Local
Manchester CCGs to take on acutes with united commissioning pact
STRUCTURE: Greater Manchester’s clinical commissioning groups are developing a pact to work collectively after April 2013, to ensure they are strong enough to deal with powerful hospital providers.
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HSJ Local
Sharp fall in staff satisfaction ranking for Alder Hey
WORKFORCE: The foundation trust fell more than 10 places in the national rankings for staff job satisfaction, the latest annual NHS staff survey has shown.
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HSJ Local
Central Manchester FT ranked among worst in 2011 NHS staff survey
WORKFORCE: The foundation trust has remained ranked among the worst in the England for more than a third of the measures tracked by the annual NHS staff survey, the newly published 2011 results show.
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HSJ Local
Central Manchester FT takeover of Trafford Healthcare cleared for 1 April
STRUCTURE: The trust’s takeover by Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust has been cleared to go through at the end of this month, the acquiring trust reported this afternoon.
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HSJ Local
Aintree given green light for £20m A&E redevelopment
STRUCTURE: Aintree University Hospitals Foundation Trust today reported it had received planning permission for £20m of new facilities for patients requiring urgent hospital care.
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HSJ Local
Ambulance service adopts TETRA Messenger for first responders
COMMERCIAL: The ambulance trust has become the first service in the country to purchase voice and data firm Airwave’s TETRA Messenger devices for its community first response teams, the firm reported today.
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HSJ Local
Trafford council may pull social care workers out of GMW teams, board warned
WORKFORCE: A paper to GMW’s January board warned that the “economic climate” may prompt Trafford council to pull staff out the trust’s community mental health teams.
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HSJ LocalNew Morecambe Bay chair reports gulf between clinicians and managers
WORKFORCE: The newly-installed chairman of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay this week said he had found a “massive gulf” between clinicians and managers at the troubled foundation trust.
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NewsNational NHS surplus rises by £329m
The NHS is on course to finish the year with a surplus of more than £1.5bn - £300m more than originally planned - HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
SHA report: Southport and Ormskirk missed "covenant tests" for FT bid
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s bid for foundation status has been marked amber-red in the latest NHS North of England provider development report.
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HSJ Local
Independent probe underway of Pennine Acute FT bid
PERFORMANCE: An independent review has been commissioned of the trust’s progress towards foundation status, the NHS North of England finance director reported.
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HSJ Local
NHS Trafford puts community services up for tender
COMMERCIAL: The primary care trust has launched a tender process for organisations seeking to take over its community services.