Somerset NHS Foundation Trust – Page 10
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NewsPatient Safety Awards shortlist announced
We are recognising and rewarding outstanding practice within the NHS
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NewsNew safe staffing indicator revealed
A new safe staffing indicator for hospitals across England will be launched this summer, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalSouth West trust chief executive to leave for Welsh role
WORKFORCE: Weston Area Health Trust’s chief executive is to step down to become chief operating officer of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board in Wales.
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HSJ LocalSomerset CCG mulls early end to provider contracts
FINANCE: Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group is considering whether to release itself from contracts with a number of local providers in a bid to reduce financial pressures.
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HSJ LocalMonitor alerted over Yeovil’s finances
FINANCE: Monitor may have to provide Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust with ‘deficit support’ because of the trust’s financial position.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Winner of ‘blueprint’ locum agency contract named
COMMERCIAL: A service to manage locum recruitment across nine South West hospital trusts will be managed by the Accident and Emergency Agency, HSJ can reveal.
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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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HSJ KnowledgeWhat the future NHS hospital should look like
Two hospitals challenging assumptions about how care is delivered
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NewsTrusts combine to pioneer open source patient records project
Trusts to pioneer open source patient records system
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HSJ LocalAcute trusts seek to establish 'blueprint' for regional locum agencies
COMMERCIAL: Nine South West trusts have embarked on an initiative to bring down the cost of hiring locum doctors, which it hopes will be a “blueprint” for the health service across the country.
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HSJ Local
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 LocalCCG chief to lead acute hospital
WORKFORCE: The leader of a well respected clinical commissioning group has been appointed to the chief executive post of an acute trust under investigation by Monitor.
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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 LocalYeovil signs estate partnership deal to create 'health campus'
PERFORMANCE: A small South West foundation trust has established a “strategic estate partnership” to fund and manage a new “health campus”, featuring a GP practice and nursing home.
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NewsFTs will resist forced expenditure on primary care
Foundations trusts will ‘furiously resist’ any attempt to push them into ploughing their accumulated surpluses into primary care as envisaged by the NHS Five Year Forward View
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HSJ LocalSouth west trusts pay course fees in exchange for contracts
WORKFORCE: A group of five acute south west trusts have agreed to pay the course fees of physician associate trainees in return for two years’ service as part of a drive to ease workforce pressures.
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HSJ Local
Somerset trust waiting times prompt Monitor probe
PERFORMANCE: The regulator Monitor has launched an investigation into a south west acute trust due to concerns over the number of patients waiting longer than 18 weeks for elective treatment.
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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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CommentWho pays when it goes wrong? The uncertainty of private providers in the NHS
Confusion over negligence