Somerset NHS Foundation Trust – Page 16
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Exclusive: FT income busts target as pay drives costs over plan
Foundation trusts took more than half a billion over-plan in income in 2010-11, a Monitor report seen by HSJ reveals.
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NHS Somerset sets out plans to hand over £500m budgets to consortium
STRUCTURE: NHS Somerset will transfer responsibility for a quarter of its budget to the local GP consortium by the end of the year.
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Yeovil FT teams up with local council on nursery tender
COMMERCIAL: Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust is about to launch a tender for a nursery in partnership with South Somerset District Council.
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New chair for Yeovil FT
WORKFORCE: A new chair and deputy chief executive have been appointed at Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust.
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NewsInfection target 'unachievable' under new tests
Trusts that have failed to meet their C difficile infection targets because of changes in how patient tests are carried out are challenging the “achievability” of even tougher measures.
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Taunton and Somerset challenges C diff target
PERFORMANCE: Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust have challenged the target set by the Department of Health for the number of cases of Clostridium difficile during 2011-12.
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NewsJoint pathology venture fairly awarded, CCP decides
A foundation trust did not breach competition principles in selecting a public/private partnership for its pathology services, the NHS market regulator has found.
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Yeovil District Hospital FT appoints chair
WORKFORCE: Peter Wyman CBE has been named as the new chair of Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
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Somerset Partnership FT begins refurbishment of 'serious incident' ward
PERFORMANCE: Work on the refurbishment of Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust’s Rydon ward is due to start this month.
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Reconfiguration halted in NHS Somerset
STRUCTURE: Plans to centralise gynaecological cancer services in the NHS Somerset area have been shelved after they failed to meet the new reconfiguration tests.
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HSJ Local
NHS Somerset overspends on bariatric services
FINANCE: A £432,000 overspend by NHS Somerset at Taunton and Somerset FT is mainly down to the provision of bariatric services.
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HSJ Local
Yeovil searches for new chair
WORKFORCE: Angela Dupont MBE is to retire as chairman of Yeovil District Hospital FT at the end of May after 14 years.
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HSJ Local
Somerset Partnership FT seeks to address high level of ligature incidents
PERFORMANCE: Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust’s key commissioner NHS Somerset reported to its December board that the mental health provider experienced a significant surge in deliberate patient self harm using ligatures between the first and second quarters of 2010-11.
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HSJ Local
Yeovil District Hospital FT introduces band 4 HCAs
WORKFORCE: Yeovil District Hospital FT is working towards its first group of band 4 associate practitioners.
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Yeovil District Hospital FT talks pathology with private sector
COMMERCIAL: Yeovil District Hospital FT and Taunton and Somerset FT are looking at developing an integrated pathology service.
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Ten per cent of patients waiting more than 30 mins for A&E transfer
PERFORMANCE: The trust is failing to meet a target to transfer all patients arriving at the accident and emergency department within 15 minutes.
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HSJ Local
Delays in patient handover at Taunton and Somerset A&E
Just 83.3 per cent of patients arriving at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust by ambulance were handed over within 15 minutes.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to tackle equality and diversity in the health service
NHS Employers has chosen 20 trusts as partners to lead the way on equality and diversity. HSJ looks at some of the schemes in place to improve the health service not just for patients but for its workforce too