Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust – Page 24
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NewsCourt to hear medical treatment case
The courts are being asked to rule in a dispute over whether it is in “the best interests” of a man in a vegetative state to receive life-saving treatment if his condition deteriorates.
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Salford Royal completes £200m revamp
STRUCTURE: Salford Royal FT has completed a £200 million, five-year redevelopment project with finishing touches including new car parks, covered walkways and outdoor areas.
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Pennine Acute reports ‘excellent progress’ despite ‘never event’
PERFORMANCE: Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust has reported that it is on course to meet 38 of the 43 performance indicators in its 2012-13 business plan, but has failed in its objective to have zero “never events” in the year.
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Breaches of antibiotic policy leave trust struggling to combat C diff
PERFORMANCE: Failures in antibiotic prescribing have left Pennine Acute Trust struggling to hit targets for reducing C difficile infections, trust board papers show.
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Hourly checks help Salford Royal tackle falls and ulcers
PERFORMANCE: One patient was harmed in a fall at Salford Royal hospital and seven suffered pressure ulcers in June, shows the FT’s latest transparency report.
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Steep fall in long-waiters at Salford Royal
PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust has achieved a steep fall in the number of its patients who have been waiting more than a year for treatment, commissioner board papers show.
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Pennine Acute misses three RTT waiting targets in April
PERFORMANCE: The trust failed to meet three of the five national targets for referral-to-treatment waiting times in April, its latest performance report shows.
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East Lancashire eyes ‘new market’ as result of Manchester maternity reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: The reconfiguration of maternity services across Greater Manchester may open up a “new market” for East Lancashire’s Burnley General Hospital, trust board papers state.
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Work on new women and children’s unit ahead of schedule
STRUCTURE: Building work on a new £44m women and children’s unit at the Royal Oldham Hospital is ahead of schedule, say managers.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow trusts are getting smarter about business intelligence
In our first monthly examination of the state of key healthcare support services, Daloni Carlisle finds many trusts are upgrading their business intelligence systems.
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NewsTrusts pursue pay curbs for staff sickness
A tribunal decision that forced a trust to stop withholding pay from staff who take too much sick leave has failed to deter other organisations from pursuing similar policies, HSJ has learned.
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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 LocalAnalysed: the reconfiguration plan for Greater Manchester's hospitals
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of the key issues facing the NHS’s major health economies. This week: acute reconfiguration in Greater Manchester.
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PAHT opens new specialist trauma and orthopaedic centre
STRUCTURE: The trust has opened a new specialist centre for emergency trauma and orthopaedic services at North Manchester General Hospital.
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Bury pulls ‘contractual levers’ over Pennine Acute cancer waits
PERFORMANCE: NHS Bury has “enforced contractual levers” in a bid to increase the speed at which the trust refers patients in need of specialist cancer treatment, board papers state.
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HSJ KnowledgeLabour of love: making a maternity services reconfiguration successful
The reconfiguration of Manchester’s maternity services may have been a long time coming, but it has lessons for the rest of the country, finds Crispin Dowler.
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Pennine Acute waiting targets performance falls again in November
PERFORMANCE: Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust’s performance on “referral to treatment” waiting targets declined again in November, its latest performance report states.
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Bury forecasts £8m overspend on secondary care
FINANCE: At the end of November the primary care trust was forecasting it would overspend its secondary care budget by £8m this year, its latest finance report shows.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to create an organisational strategy to develop clinical leaders
A programme to engage senior staff with clinical leadership through assessment and development is creating a core group of strong clinical leaders at Salford Royal. Stephen Perry and David Wood explain the programme.
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Salford Royal forecasts shortfall on health visitors target
WORKFORCE: Salford Royal Foundation Trust is forecasting that it will miss its target of recruiting a further 10 health visitors this year, its commissioner has reported.