All North West articles – Page 101
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NewsTrust put finances ahead of waiting lists, Monitor suggests
The foundation trust regulator has voiced “concern” that the Royal Bolton Hospital placed finance ahead of tackling its burgeoning waiting list problems.
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Second hospital abandons staff sickness policy
WORKFORCE: A second hospital trust in the North West has ripped up a sickness absence policy under which nurses had pay increments withheld.
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Regulator puts Bolton FT in 'significant breach' over waiting times
PERFORMANCE: Monitor today found the Royal Bolton FT in significant breach of its terms of authorisation, following repeated failures by the trust to hit waiting time targets.
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Recruitment drive at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals to address nursing shortages
WORKFORCE: The trust’s unscheduled medical care division has acknowledged it will need to recruit up to eight nurses and healthcare assistants a month to prevent a repeat of the staff shortages it experienced in 2011.
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Stockport and East Cheshire trusts consider pooled breast surgery service
STRUCTURE: The foundation trust is reviewing its clinical services with East Cheshire Trust to identify specialties that could be provided jointly across the two acute providers.
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Dalton letter: Cluster chief raised doubts about East Cheshire FT bid
STRUCTURE: Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral primary care trusts’ chief executive warned in January that she was “not convinced” the PCT cluster should support the trust’s bid for foundation status.
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Workforce director appointed at Plymouth
WORKFORCE: Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust’s deputy director of human resources is to join Plymouth Hospitals Trust as director of workforce.
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£500k spike in Bolton Health Consortium prescribing overspend
FINANCE: Bolton Health Consortium’s forecast overspend on its prescribing budget went up by £496,000 in February, to £861,000.
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Takeover of Trafford Healthcare Trust completed
STRUCTURE: The takeover of the Trafford Healthcare Trust by Central Manchester University Hospitals is now complete, the foundation has announced.
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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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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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£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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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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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.