Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Foundation Trust – Page 8
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NHS Wiltshire struggles to reach contract agreement with acutes
FINANCE: NHS Wiltshire had still not agreed contracts with four of its biggest acute providers by the start of July.
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Over half of FT plans awaiting DH approval
Fewer than half of NHS trusts’ plans for achieving foundation status have been signed off by the Department of Health, more than four months after they were written.
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Fall in activity at Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases
FINANCE: A fall in activity has left the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases Foundation Trust £155,000 behind plan on its PCT income after the first two months of 2011-12.
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RUH announces £40m estates strategy
FINANCE: The Royal United Hospitals Bath Trust is planning to spend nearly £40m on upgrading its estate over the next six years.
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Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust achieves 78 per cent of its savings targets
FINANCE: The West Country acute trust had a cost improvement programme target of £19.7m but only achieved £15.3m in 2010-11.
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City Hospitals Sunderland in bottom 20 per cent for CIP achievement
FINANCE: The acute trust achieved only 76 per cent of its cost improvement programme for the past financial year.
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Exclusive: dozens of trusts missed savings targets in 2010-11
Trusts missed 2010-11’s efficiency targets by nearly 10 per cent before even tougher demands came into force this year, an HSJ analysis reveals.
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NHS Somerset sets out plans to hand over £500m budgets to consortium
STRUCTURE: NHS Somerset will transfer responsibility for a quarter of its budget to the local GP consortium by the end of the year.
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Struggling trusts owe DH quarter of a billion in bailout cash
Trusts owe the Department of Health a quarter of a billion pounds, with most of the debt resulting from mass bailouts made during the financial crisis of 2006, DH figures reveal.
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Acute trusts' FT plans slip back a year
More than a quarter of the acute trusts still bidding for foundation status have seen their application date slip by over a year.
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Rise in patient falls at Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases
PERFORMANCE: The number of falls at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases Foundation Trust tripled during February, compared with the previous month.
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Monitor's intervention threshold lowered in new framework
Monitor is set to intervene in more foundation trusts that are in danger of breaching their authorisation.
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Royal United Bath reports best A&E performance in region
PERFORMANCE: Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust was the best performing trust in the south west for A&E waiting times in the week between Christmas and New Year.
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Reconfiguration halted in NHS Somerset
STRUCTURE: Plans to centralise gynaecological cancer services in the NHS Somerset area have been shelved after they failed to meet the new reconfiguration tests.
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Royal United Hospitals Bath aims to reduce redundancies
WORKFORCE: The trust has introduced ring fenced recruitment to mitigate potential redundancies arising from QIPP projects and structural changes.
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Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases reporting healthy surplus
FINANCE: The Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases FT has more than doubled its planned surplus for the year so far.
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Hospital parking too expensive, says report
NHS patients and their families are the victims of wheel clamping, fines and excessive costs in hospital car parks, according to a report.
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Monitor concerned over vacant FT executive posts
Monitor has begun publicly reporting the number of foundation trust board posts left vacant or filled only by an interim.
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Trusts target major carbon cuts
Cutting energy bills by £1.1m a year and reducing annual carbon emissions by 8,100 tonnes is the target for 17 NHS trusts across England.
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Trust in talks over merger with struggling foundation
A hospital trust in the South West is considering a merger with a struggling foundation trust.