All REGIONS articles – Page 9
-
News
Revealed: Virgin handed £280m Staffordshire contract
Virgin Care has been awarded a £280m, seven-year prime provider contract to manage services in East Staffordshire, HSJ can reveal.
-
HSJ Local
Trust to move some services to leisure centre
STRUCTURE: Leicester Partnership Trust and West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group are to relocate community nursing and musculoskeletal services from Ashby and District Hospital to a leisure centre.
-
HSJ Local
Foundation trusts sign children’s services deal
STRUCTURE: Two foundation trusts in Derbyshire have signed a three year agreement to deliver services for children, young people and families together to improve ‘quality, productivity and efficiency’.
-
News
Exclusive: Vanguard areas call for tender moratorium
NHS England and Monitor are facing calls to exempt ‘vanguard’ areas from requirements to tender services, amid fears that procurement processes could undermine efforts to establish integrated primary, community and acute care models.
-
News
NHS England hires local director as another joins Optum
A NHS England sub-region directors is leaving to join private health firm Optum, while another of the posts has been filled by a former primary care trust chief executive.
-
HSJ Local
Community nurse staffing to be monitored
WORKFORCE: Shropshire Community Health Trust will begin monitoring staffing levels among community nurses each month from April.
-
HSJ Local
Northamptonshire trust to roll out parents’ advice line
COMMERCIAL: Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is to launch an out of hours health visitors advice line, following a successful pilot of the scheme.
-
HSJ Local
Commissioners 'shocked' at hospital ward conditions
PERFORMANCE: Commissioners and governors visiting Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust have described a litany of problems found in one of its wards including overcrowding, staffing concerns and a failure to report incidents.
-
HSJ Local
CCG overspends by £1m across acute contracts
FINANCE: Erewash CCG had overspent by more than £1m on acute contracts by the end of November – largely as a result of work by Derby Hospitals Foundation Trust and Nottingham University Hospitals Trust.
-
HSJ Knowledge
We need a sustainable workforce to keep up with winter pressures
Trust did all it could preparing for winter pressures
-
HSJ Local
CCG makes recommendations after murder case review
PERFORMANCE: A review of a murder case by clinical commissioning groups, child protection experts and police has concluded that training for staff in recognising domestic abuse should emphasise the role of ‘coercive control’ in relationships.
-
HSJ Local
Trust posts £8m surplus after third quarter
FINANCE: South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare Foundation Trust had a surplus of £8.26m on income and expenditure as of 31 December.
-
HSJ Local
CCG to consider future for GP ‘acute visits’ scheme
PERFORMANCE: Hardwick Clinical Commissioning Group is examining the future of a scheme which allows patients with acute problems to be visited during daytime by a nurse within two hours of a call to a GP surgery.
-
HSJ Knowledge
NHS Innovation Challenge: From small Acorns grow mighty winners
The entries impacting on patient care
-
HSJ Local
Nurse shortages at trust highlighted in 25 incident reports
WORKFORCE: Shortages of ward nurses were recorded in 25 incident reports in January at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust.
-
HSJ Local
Trams to hospital will ease congestion and car parking, says chief executive
ACUTE CARE: Power lines are being tested on tram tracks scheduled to open later this year going to the Queen’s Medical Centre is Nottingham.
-
HSJ Local
Chesterfield Royal misses cancer target
PERFORMANCE: Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust has missed the national target for treating cancer patients within 62 days of screening for the third month in a row.
-
News
Exclusive: DH agreed extra bailouts for trusts where performance was at risk
The Department of Health arranged at least £39m in extra ‘essential’ capital funding for foundation trusts where patient safety or ‘ongoing operations’ were at risk because of maintenance backlogs, HSJ can reveal.