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
The government has hit back at claims that there is not enough incineration capacity to burn waste from NHS hospitals - accusing the company at the centre of a stockpiling scandal of refusing to pay disposal costs.
Labour has called on the government to explain why it “apparently contradicted” NHS and Environment Agency officials’ concerns over the capacity of incinerators to burn clinical waste.
National officials have privately acknowledged there may be a shortage of incinerator capacity for burning clinical waste – contrary to the government’s public assertions – documents seen by HSJ show.
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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