All North West articles – Page 78
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Royal Liverpool hopes to confirm new hospital within weeks
Royal Liverpool plans to reach financial close and sign the contract for its new hospital build before the end of the year, the trust’s recent board papers state.
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Bolton on course to meet planned deficit
Bolton Foundation Trust believes it can still achieve its planned deficit, despite missing a recent financial target, board papers show.
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NewsCCGs lobby for access to safety incidents data
Clinical commissioning groups in the North of England are lobbying for direct access to information submitted by their providers to the national database of patient safety incidents, HSJ has learned.
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Monitor to probe Wirral FT's finances
FINANCE: Monitor has launched an investigation into poor financial performance at Wirral University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust.
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HSJ KnowledgeScaling the NHS's diversity problems
Why are staff from BME backgrounds underrepresented at the top of the service?
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C difficile vaccine to be trialled at Pennine Acute Trust
PERFORMANCE: Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust is taking part of a trial seeking to develop a vaccine to prevent the C Difficile infection in hospitals
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NewsJones overturns neonatal care move
Wales’s first minister has overturned a decision to transfer some specialist neonatal care in north Wales across the border to England.
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HSJ KnowledgeNine steps to an effective informatics strategy
How IT and data can be solve an organisation’s problems
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Mystery surrounds executive director suspension
A foundation trust has suspended the last executive director remaining in post from the tenure of its previous chief executive, HSJ has discovered.
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Pennine Acute records £2.1m deficit in July
FINANCE: Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust recorded a deficit of £2.1m for July, against a planned deficit of £0.4m, its latest performance report states.
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Salford finance director to move to Leeds
STRUCTURE: Salford Royal Foundation Trust finance director and deputy chief executive Tony Whitfield is leaving to join Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust in January.
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North Cumbria takeover fails to proceed
The planned acquisition of a ‘Keogh trust’ by a neighbouring foundation trust failed to go ahead on 1 October.
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HSJ LocalMonitor to probe CCGs' block contract
Monitor is to investigate a complaint that referrals to a private hospital dropped after two clinical commissioning groups entered into a block contract with a local NHS hospital.
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HSJ KnowledgeIt's time to stop ignoring patients' complaints
Confronting complaints can be uncomfortable but it is essential
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HSJ Local
Pennine Acute Hospitals chief executive retiring
WORKFORCE: Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust chief executive John Saxby is retiring.
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Mid Staffs finance director joins Morecambe Bay
WORKFORCE: Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust’s finance director is leaving to take up the role of director of finance and deputy chief executive at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust.
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Trust accidentally circulates details of Ashworth Hospital volunteers
PERFORMANCE: Mersey Care Trust has published details of a confidentiality breach in which a member of staff accidentally circulated the personal details of volunteers who had visited patients at the high-security Ashworth Hospital.
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Pennine Acute misses hospital acquired infections target
PERFORMANCE: Pennine Acute has failed against its target of having no cases of MRSA in 2013-14, its latest performance report states.
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East Lancs publishes post-Keogh improvement plan
WORKFORCE: East Lancashire Hospitals has hired 30 additional nurses and 30 extra healthcare assistants following the Keogh review of trusts with high mortality rate, the trust reported last week.
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NewsAmbulance trusts step into breach to provide NHS 111
NHS ambulance services are to take on the temporary provision of NHS 111 in most of the areas where NHS Direct is pulling out of delivery, the health advice provider has announced.