All articles by Sophie Barnes – Page 10
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London mental health trust wins contracts in Bedfordshire and Luton
COMMERCIAL: East London Foundation Trust has been chosen by two clinical commissioning groups to deliver mental health services contracts worth £60m in Bedfordshire and Luton.
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Updated: Leading foundation trust buddies with Medway
PERFORMANCE: Struggling Medway Foundation Trust has been buddied with Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust to try and help the hospital improve its performance.
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Ambulance handover policy criticised by clinicians
STRUCTURE: A new handover policy introduced by South East Coast Ambulance Service Foundation Trust has been described as ‘unsafe’ by clinicians at Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust.
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Trusts told 'make every effort' to meet A&E target in April
Trusts have been told to ‘make every effort’ to meet the four hour target for accident and emergency departments by the end of next month.
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Urgent care system 'near breaking point', think tank claims
Four hour target ‘distorts’ behaviour in hospitals, Nuffield Trust says
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New chief executive for beleaguered acute trust
WORKFORCE: Medway Foundation Trust has appointed a new chief executive.
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Monitor investigates major London trust
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has launched an investigation into King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust because of ‘long standing problems’ at Princess Royal University Hospital.
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Trusts told to halve the number of ‘green to go’ patients
A number of trusts were told to reduce the number of medically fit patients who were delayed in being discharged from hospital by 50 per cent in a month, HSJ has learned.
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Fifth maternal death at east London hospital
PERFORMANCE: There has been another maternal death at Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust.
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Hunt rejects call to extend barring checks on staff and volunteers
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has rejected a key recommendation from the investigation into lessons learnt from the historic abuse by Jimmy Savile at NHS hospitals.
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Savile inquiry calls for change in law for screening staff
There is ‘very patchy’ management of volunteer schemes in trusts and the law should be changed so that all staff and volunteers in contact with patients should be given a barring list check, the authors of an investigation into Jimmy Savile’s historic sexual abuse have said.
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Major FT brings in turnaround director
PERFORMANCE: King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust has appointed a turnaround director to tackle its finance and performance issues.
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Controversial MSK contract could stay with current providers, CCG says
STRUCTURE: Commissioners in West Sussex will begin discussions with local providers to continue delivering musculoskeletal services after the preferred bidder pulled out of the contract.
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Trusts ‘unanimously’ reject NHS England's reduced specialist funding offer
London teaching hospitals have turned down an offer from NHS England to pay just a quarter of their previous allocation for highly specialist treatments.
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CCG 'rewinds' tender process after legal threat
A London clinical commissioning group has decided to retender its integrated urgent care and out of hours services contract after it was threatened with a legal challenge from an unsuccessful bidder.
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CMA to investigate Surrey trusts' merger plan
The proposed merger between two trusts in Surrey has hit a stumbling block after the Competition and Markets Authority said the merger could have ‘adverse effects’ for patients and it has launched an investigation.
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Trusts surpass 100,000 extra elective treatments target
Trusts have gone beyond the government target to treat 100,000 extra patients waiting over 16 weeks for treatment.
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Government ups pressure to bring down waiting list
Government focus has moved from accident and emergency performance to the NHS’s 3.2 million elective waiting list, senior trust sector sources have told HSJ.
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Dermatology procurement delayed after preferred bidder pulls out
STRUCTURE: The procurement of a new dermatology service in Brighton has been delayed because the preferred bidder has pulled out after it was unable to reach agreement with organisations it wanted to subcontract work from.
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National fund needed to address paramedic shortage, says ambulance chief
An ambulance trust chief executive has warned that the lack of a national funding scheme for training paramedics could only exacerbate workforce shortages if it is not tackled.