COMMERCIAL: Queen Victoria NHS FT has signed an £8m building contract with construction company Willmott Dixon.
Under the NHS ProCure 21+ project, Willmott Dixon will develop six new theatres, alongside an admissions suite and a day surgery unit.
The predicted completion date is December 2012.
22 August 2011
Two out of three requests from NHS trusts for capital investment have so far been rejected under the government’s new funding regime, analysis by HSJ suggests.
NHS organisations must give employees access to post-incident support or post-trauma counselling, a report into the mental health of staff has found.
The Department of Health and Social Care has set up a “logistics hub” in Belgium and plans to manage its own dedicated shipping route from mainland Europe to the UK for vital medical products, as part of no-deal preparations, HSJ can reveal.
A long awaited move of overnight care for children with burns from Queen Victoria Hospital Foundation Trust in East Grinstead to Brighton is back on the cards.
PERFORMANCE: Monitor is to send a contingency planning team to Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn to develop options for securing sustainable patient services at the financially troubled foundation trust.
PERFORMANCE: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust scored an average of 88 for inpatients in the “friends and family” test over the first quarter of 2013-14.
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