All articles by Sophie Barnes – Page 21
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CCG concerned at plan to centralise cardiac services at Barts
STRUCTURE: An east London clinical commissioning group has expressed doubt over plans to centralise specialist cardiac services at Barts Health Trust because of “performance and quality” concerns.
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Barking set to record more than double expected shortfall
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust’s forecast deficit for the end of the financial year is more than double its planned amount.
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Barts Trust forecasts £39m deficit
FINANCE: A trust with one of the largest predicted year end deficits in the country has revised it down by £11m, to £39m.
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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells specialist cancer surgery suspended
PERFORMANCE: Patients from the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells area are being sent to St Thomas’ Hospital in London for upper gastro intestinal cancer surgery procedures amid concerns about services in the area, it has emerged.
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Increase in private ambulances causes problems for trust
An increase in the number of private ambulances arriving at Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust’s accident and emergency department has led to “operational difficulties”, the trust has disclosed.
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Analysis: Increase in procurement and competition challenges
Providers are increasingly willing to use the procurement, patient choice and competition regulations to challenge decisions, experts have stated, after HSJ analysis identified six of the first legal challenges to emerge.
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CQC reports Medway emergency department 'in crisis'
A Care Quality Commission inspection report on the emergency department at Medway Maritime Hospital concluded it was “effectively in a crisis situation”.
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FTs urged to resist procurement price increases
The Department of Health and Monitor have written to foundation trusts encouraging them to take a tough stance towards suppliers who attempt to impose “blanket inflationary price increases”.
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Ombudsman: 'Lack of openness and honesty' at Morecambe Bay
A “lack of openness and honesty” at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust caused further distress for a family which had lost a child, a watchdog has concluded.
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Mid Staffs to be dissolved
The health secretary today announced that Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust would be dissolved in line with the recommendation of the trust’s special administrators.
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Analysis: Flat waiting list bucks seasonal trend
The national elective waiting list hovered just below 3 million throughout the autumn – in defiance of the seasonal pattern seen in recent years – in one of the clearest indications so far of the pressure on the acute sector.
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New strategy for south west London reconfiguration
Six clinical commissioning groups in South West London have formally dismantled their Better Services Better Value programme designed to reconfigure acute services. However, they admit service change is still required.
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Surgeon shortage leads to centralised service
High risk and emergency gastrointestinal surgery is to be centralised at one site by East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust due to a shortage of surgeons.
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Serco procurement bid rejected by trust
Lewisham and Greenwich Trust has rejected a bid from Serco to provide its procurement services after concluding that it would not provide value for money, following more than a year of negotiations.
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Information centre should audit waiting times data, say health leaders
Health leaders have called for an Audit Commission-style body to perform spot checks and external monitoring of waiting times data to ensure its accuracy.
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Liquidity problems forced trust to abandon George Eliot bid
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust was forced to leave the bidding process to run nearby George Eliot Hospital due to financial concerns, HSJ understands.
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Trust 'loses confidence' in PFI provider
North Cumbria University Hospitals has “lost confidence” in the private finance initiative contractor that manages facilities on its main site after a probe uncovered “major issues” with the way its operating theatres, water systems and gas pipelines were being maintained.
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Miliband's CCG vision at odds with Burnham plan
Ed Miliband appears to have indicated that Labour would retain clinical commissioning groups as key decision making bodies in the NHS.
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Exclusive: Hospital chains win backing
Discussions have begun between national NHS bodies on how the provider landscape can be radically reshaped, including on providers forming national chains of hospitals and services.
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Vasco-Knight suspended with immediate effect
The chief executive of South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust, who was accused of “nepotism” by two whistleblowers, has been suspended with immediate effect.