All Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust articles – Page 3
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2021: Cancer Care Initiative of the Year
WINNER: South Tees Hospitals FT: Holistic Wellbeing Calls for Cancer Patients At the outset of the pandemic a new telephone service was established to proactively call cancer patients to check their wellbeing, offer holistic therapy, provide local information and support, refer to appropriate services or simply provide a listening ear ...
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NewsTrusts recruit extra midwives as baby boom hits
Trusts in the South East are recruiting additional midwives as this year’s birth rates soar, with an increase of more than 20 per cent in women booking to give birth at one trust.
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NewsTrust complains of ‘very harsh’ exclusion from national costing report
Fourteen trusts have had their financial data excluded from a national survey of spending due to accounting errors, in a process that one described as ‘very harsh’.
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HSJ Interactive
How hospitals can crack the challenge of managing outpatient appointments
Managing outpatient appointment booking was complicated enough before the pandemic, and the subsequent care backlogs have only made it worse. An HSJ webinar invited a panel of experts to discuss the challenges and how new methods of digitisation could make things better. Claire Read reports.
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NewsHospital hosts others’ surgeons so cancer ops can go ahead
A specialist trust has freed up 29 theatre sessions a week so cancer surgery from nearby providers can continue during the covid pandemic.
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NewsIncorrect covid tests spark harm review for staff and patients
Trusts are carrying out harm reviews after a ‘contamination issue’ affecting hundreds of samples resulted in some staff and patients being wrongly told they had coronavirus, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTrust chief steps down to join national covid testing team
The chief executive of a hospital trust is standing down to join national work on testing for covid-19, HSJ understands.
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NewsExclusive: 22 junior doctors under investigation after covid outbreak
A trust is carrying out an internal investigation after two junior doctors developed covid following an offsite event attended by 22 juniors where social distancing rules were allegedly ignored.
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NewsExclusive: Review launched after ‘injustices suffered by BAME staff’
A clinical commissioning group has ordered an independent review of its culture after what is described as “injustices experienced by black Asian and minority ethic colleagues” during the covid pandemic.
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NewsFirst ‘digital aspirant’ trusts revealed by NHSX
Twenty-three trusts will share a £28m pot of technology funding as part of the first wave of “digital aspirant” providers, NHSX has announced.
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NewsTrust stops making cancer drugs after criticism from regulator
An acute trust is to abandon manufacturing its own radiopharmaceuticals after a regulator said it needed more quality improvement work and better facilities.
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NewsNamed: The trusts receiving new cash for scanners
The trusts in line to receive £200m for upgrading cancer screening equipment from the government have been announced.
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NewsTrust considers pre-booking private capacity to safeguard A&E performance
A trust is proposing an extended moratorium on elective care over Christmas 2019 and Easter 2020, and pre-booking outsourcing to private providers in an attempt to shore up emergency care performance and cut cancellations.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts failing to meet national efficiency targets
NHS trusts continue to miss targets aimed at helping hospitals spend millions of pounds more effectively, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTrust postpones trials after regulator partially suspends licence
A trust has been unable to start some new cancer trials as planned after regulators partially suspended its licence to manufacture medicines.
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NewsLast minute talks save first of its kind joint venture
A last-ditch agreement has stopped a pioneering joint venture between a GP federation and an acute trust from falling apart.
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NewsNational radiotherapy plan 'impossible to realise' without more funding
Consolidation of radiotherapy services “will be impossible” without more money, a royal college has warned.
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NewsExclusive: Tens of thousands of junior doctors working beyond contract
Junior doctors have worked beyond their contracted terms and conditions more than 63,000 times since 2015, resulting in fines worth more than £250,000, HSJ can reveal today.
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NewsShelford Group trust chief takes charity role
The former chief executive of a Shelford Group hospital trust is taking up a role leading a charity.
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HSJ LocalDeputy appointed to trust chief executive role
The deputy chief executive of the Royal Surrey County Hospital Foundation Trust is stepping up to the top job.