STRUCTURE: West Midlands Ambulance Service is hoping for approval as a foundation trust during 2012-13.
Its application has been assessed by the Department of Health and was graded as a B, meaning that it will be passed to Monitor once satisfactory responses to questions have been received.
The trust already has nine appointed governors and is planning elections for public and staff governors.
Source: January board papers
January
A judge has ruled a clinical commissioning group can award a £320m contract to its local acute trust despite an ongoing dispute from a large private provider.
Sir David Nicholson has been appointed the chair of a West Midlands sustainability and transformation partnership, HSJ can reveal.
An online GP consultation service has suspended all appointments for under-18s.
A former regional adviser for the Care Quality Commission has been appointed executive medical director at a community and mental health trust.
PATIENT SAFETY: An ambulance pilot that could have contributed to the death of at least one patient had no ‘risk assessment and limited risk management’, NHS England has concluded.
Commissioners warned that a controversial South East Coast Ambulance Foundation Trust pilot that added 10 minutes to some emergency response times may have contributed to the death of at least one patient, leaked emails seen by HSJ reveal.
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