All South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust articles – Page 6
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HSJ LocalAmbulance trust to review use of GPs following patient death
PATIENT SAFETY: An ambulance trust is to review how it uses GPs in its emergency operations centres after a patient died when a GP downgraded the response.
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HSJ LocalChief of beleaguered ambulance trust takes 'leave of absence'
PERFORMANCE: The chief executive of an ambulance trust has taken “leave of absence” and the chair has been replaced on the day a critical report into a controversial pilot project was released.
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HSJ LocalReport criticises ambulance chief over controversial pilot scheme
The chief executive of South East Coast Ambulance Service Foundation Trust has come under pressure after leaked documents suggest he took the “ultimate decision” to delay ambulances in a controversial pilot project.
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HSJ LocalPatient transport to go to private providers despite union protests
STRUCTURE: A major transfer of patient transport services to private providers will go ahead on 1 April, commissioners have said, despite unions calling for a three month delay.
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HSJ LocalAmbulance pilot scheme linked to patient death 'not suitably managed'
PATIENT SAFETY: An ambulance pilot that could have contributed to the death of at least one patient had no ‘risk assessment and limited risk management’, NHS England has concluded.
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HSJ LocalAmbulance trust leadership could face overhaul over delays
PERFORMANCE: The leadership of South East Coast Ambulance Foundation Trust could be replaced after Monitor found some patients were made to wait up to 10 minutes longer for an emergency response last winter.
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NewsFT finance: Biggest spenders on private healthcare
Foundation trusts spent more than £475m on sending patients to private and third sector providers in 2014-15 - a 43 per cent increase on the figure two years ago.
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HSJ LocalAmbulance staff to leave patients waiting at A&E during busy periods
South East Coast Ambulance Service Foundation Trust will leave patients waiting to be admitted to accident and emergency departments in order to respond to emergency calls during busy periods.
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NewsTrusts’ spending on private healthcare providers rockets by 25pc
Foundation trusts increased the sums they spent buying healthcare from non-NHS bodies by almost 25 per cent last year
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Comment'An irreversible shift in power was long overdue': 10 years of FTs
Milburn, Bennett and more review the sector
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NewsNHS the second most gay friendly employment sector
The health service is the second most gay friendly employment sector, according to Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index.
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NewsAmbulance trusts step into breach to provide NHS 111
NHS ambulance services are to take on the temporary provision of NHS 111 in most of the areas where NHS Direct is pulling out of delivery, the health advice provider has announced.
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HSJ Local
Medical leads sought for south east 111 service
WORKFORCE: South East Coast Ambulance Service and Harmoni are advertising for NHS 111 medical leads.
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SE Ambulances has worst NHS absence rate in region
WORKFORCE: South East Coast Ambulance Service Foundation Trust had the worst sickness average sickness absence rate of any NHS organisation for the first three months of 2013 in the South East Coast region.
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HSJ Local
South East Coast Ambulance tests brain-cooling tech
RESEARCH: South East Coast Ambulance Service Foundation Trust is evaluating a system that directly cools cardiac arrest patients’ brains prior to their arrival at hospital.
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HSJ Local
Support workers to staff new ‘intermediate’ transport service
STRUCTURE: South East Coast Ambulance Service Foundation Trust is introducing a new tier of patient transport response across Kent and Sussex.
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HSJ Local
South East Ambulance deals with more patients over phone
SERVICES: A new method of triaging and responding to calls to the ambulance service has seen more patients dealt with over the phone – but has not always been popular with patients.
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HSJ Local
Winter complaints surge for South East Ambulance
PERFORMANCE: December and January saw a dramatic increase in complaints about South East Coast Ambulance Service with a rise to 60 compared to 33 in the same period last year.
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HSJ Local
South East Coast uses own care staff to reduce handover delays
PERFORMANCE: South East Coast Ambulance Service Foundation Trust has started using its own staff to look after cohorts of suitable patients at hospitals to free ambulance crews to respond to other calls – rather than taking patients to other, less busy, hospitals.