PERFORMANCE: Delayed transfers of care have again been identified as a “major cause of concern” at Oxford University Hospitals Trust.
The trust’s November board papers cited a monthly average of 140 delays, equating to a rate of 7.8 per cent – more than double the target rate.
More than half – 76 – were attributed to the trust
“Significant work is on-going with partner organisations to redesign bed based services,” the papers said.
November 2012
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Wes Streeting has apologised to families harmed by poor maternity care for taking six months to get back to them, and claimed he is pressing NHS England for a “more comprehensive and stronger set of actions” to improve safety.
Block funding contracts are undermining the throughput and care quality of a common emergency operation, leading clinicians have told HSJ.
A trust has appointed a mental health nurse as its permanent chief executive, after he held the post in an interim capacity for over a year.
Wes Streeting is “sounding like a merchant of doom” and is wrong to call the NHS “broken”, a trust chair has said in a strongly worded commentary to his board.
A mental health trust has named a managing director as its interim chief executive while the substantive post-holder is on secondment at the local integrated care board.
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