PERFORMANCE: Sefton PCT did not achieve a target to ensure 90 per of cancer patients were treated within 62 days after screening, says a report to the Merseyside PCT cluster.
The trust’s cumulative figure for April was 87.5 per cent due to two breaches, says the peformance report.
“One breach was due to patient choice and one breach was as a result of a referral delay between trusts,” says the report.
July 2012
At a recent AstraZeneca UK sponsored HSJ roundtable event for NHS stakeholders, I had the privilege of hearing directly from clinicians, digital leads, and operational decision-makers across multiple cancer pathways.
An ambulance trust has appointed a new chair, who a panel found had displayed “bullying behaviour” in a previous role as a police and crime commissioner.
Three former senior leaders of the trust where babies were murdered by Lucy Letby have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.
A former hospital trust chief is set to be appointed chair of one of the largest integrated care boards.
Regional bosses say they need to understand ‘if and how’ hospitals can reduce the number of long-stay patients – with some areas reporting more than one in five beds being ‘blocked’.
A troubled integrated care system has failed to appoint a chair for a second time.
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