FINANCE: West Midlands Ambulance Service Trust is planning £9m in cost improvements in 2012-13 to enable it to make a £4m surplus.
The savings will need to be made against a backdrop of falling payments.
The board was told that thee plan was to slightly reduce the number of staff - by 31 WTE - while activity is expected to grow by around 4.5 per cent.
January
Dozens of trusts have been hit with financial penalties after regulators questioned their claims to be compliant with maternity safety standards.
An NHS England regional director has been made a dame in the King’s birthday honours.
When Sir Jim Mackey took over as NHS England’s last chief executive, he picked four fellow acute trust CEOs to help him lead the service over the next two years.
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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