PERFORMANCE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust only saw 90.8 per cent of patients in accident and emergency within fours hours during January, against a target of 95 per cent.
A report to the board said the “main contributing factor has been availability of beds affecting throughput in A&E, and continuing high levels of emergency admissions”.
28 February 2012
Patients should be moved to trolleys in ward corridors to wait for a bed to become free rather than wait in overcrowded accident and emergency departments, according to the College of Emergency Medicine.
A trust has reached an out-of-court settlement with a wrongly excluded senior surgeon and apologised for the “distress” the legal proceedings had caused her.
A troubled private company has terminated a contract to provide dermatology services two months early and at very short notice, HSJ has learned.
Consultants at a rural acute and community trust have raised fears services will be moved to another provider under a potential shared leadership model.
Consultants at an acute and community trust have attempted to block the medical director’s potential bid to become chief executive amid allegations of bullying and intimidation.
Persistent problems with a new electronic patient record system will stop an integrated acute and community trust from reporting its elective waiting times for nearly a year.
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