PERFRORMANCE: Sheffield Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust failed to carry out diagnostic tests on 30 patients within six weeks in January – meaning that it did not meet the 99 per cent target.
Sleep studies – where extra capacity was due to come on stream this month – posed particular problems. The trust now expects commissioners to apply contract penalties over the breaches, even though it achieved other access targets.
February 2013
Human body parts from NHS patients have been stored in unrefrigerated units for more than six months resulting in a smell of “decaying flesh” at a scandal hit waste management company, according to Environment Agency documents seen by HSJ.
New funding allocations which favour areas of extreme deprivation will see some clinical commissioning groups receive cash growth of up to 15 per cent next year, with others receiving increases of less than 5 per cent.
A special measures trust is shifting nearly all its elective orthopaedic work out of its main hospital as part of a raft of initiatives aimed at getting out of special measures.
A specialist trust is doing a “detailed review” of the estates and facilities at a child and adolescent mental health unit because of a “number of absconders” who could be at risk of harm.
COMMERCIAL: IT firm System C has announced that Sheffield Children’s Foundation Trust has selected it to supply and implement its electronic patient record, a system called Medway.
STRUCTURE: Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has introduced two “next generation sequencers”, for diagnosing rare and inherited diseases faster, and developing the study of genetics.
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