All Somerset NHS Foundation Trust articles – Page 4
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HSJ LocalFear of competition rules stopped council pooling social care budget
Somerset County Council decided against rolling social care money into CCG’s outcome based commissioning plans Council received legal advice that it could not participate in non-competitive process CCG managing director says “most capable provider” process “not available” to NHS organisations from this month A council in the South ...
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HSJ LocalMental health trust medical director leaves for chief executive role
WORKFORCE: The medical director of a London mental health trust is leaving to take up a chief executive post in the West Country.
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HSJ LocalSocial enterprise named preferred bidder for community services
COMMERCIAL: A social enterprise has been named the preferred bidder to provide community services across north Somerset by the local clinical commissioning group.
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Exclusive: Community and mental health trust chief to retire
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust has announced that he will retire in January 2016.
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NewsPatient Safety Awards shortlist announced
We are recognising and rewarding outstanding practice within the NHS
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HSJ LocalCCG invites bids for £100m ‘health campus’ provider
COMMERCIAL: Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group has invited organisations to bid to provide major services at a proposed health and wellbeing campus to serve Shepton Mallet and surrounding villages.
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North Somerset shortlists bidders for community services contract
COMMERCIAL: Three organisations have been shortlisted for a contract to provide community services in North Somerset.
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HSJ LocalBeds could go under Somerset community services plans
STRUCTURE: Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group is planning a major overhaul of its community services which will see a significant reduction in hospital beds and the potential procurement of an integrated service for patients with long term conditions.
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HSJ LocalOnly one bidder in the running for Weston
STRUCTURE: Only one organisation has submitted a bid to take over England’s smallest acute hospital, it has been announced.
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HSJ LocalSomerset abandons alliance ambitions
STRUCTURE: A pioneering project to improve the integration of care in south Somerset has abandoned its ambition to boost cooperation among providers with an ‘alliance contract’.
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Revealed: The mental health trusts with the biggest income cuts
Several NHS mental health providers saw double figure real terms reductions in their income between 2011-12 and 2013-14, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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HSJ LocalRecruitment struggle spells end for franchise rescue
The struggle of England’s smallest acute trust to recruit consultants played a major role in the decision to ditch its search for an independent sector management franchise to take it over, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: South Somerset's integration plan
Looking at Somerset’s Symphony integrated care project
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HSJ Local
Somerset Partnership behind on surplus
FINANCE: Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust was behind on its surplus target at the end of June.
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HSJ Local
Somerset Partnership struggles with delayed discharge
PERFORMANCE: Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust lost 455 community hospital bed days due to delayed discharges in June.
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HSJ Local
Somerset Partnership behind on telehealth roll out
PERFORMANCE: Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust is behind on a CQUIN target on deployment of telehealth by ten units.
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HSJ Local
Forces mental health contract awarded to NHS consortium
COMMERCIAL: A national contract to provide acute mental health inpatient services for military personnel has been awarded to a partnership of eight NHS mental health trusts, including Southern Health Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Somerset Partnership fails readmission target
PERFORMANCE: Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust had a psychiatric emergency readmission rate of 12.6 per cent in August against a target of 10 per cent.
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HSJ Local
Somerset Partnership community budget overspends
FINANCE: The community health directorate of Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust is overspent on district nursing by £137,000 and by £72,000 on enteral feeds, and is experiencing pressure on inpatient wards and minor injury units.
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HSJ Local
Neglect contributed to death of patient at Somerset community hospital
PERFORMANCE: A patient who choked to death at a hospital run by Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust had been neglected by staff, a coroner has ruled.