FINANCE: A year end surplus of £1m is still expected by South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust – but it is having to use contingency funds to deliver it.
A report to the board shows that the trusts had a small surplus of £400,000 at the end of February, before impairments.
But the trust was not delivering so much income as expect in surgery, trauma and anaesthetics and theatre.
26 March 2013
A trust whose capital bid to improve its maternity services has been repeatedly turned down by government has been told by the Care Quality Commission to make urgent improvements to the obstetrics department after an inspection prompted by three serious incidents.
NHS Digital has signed a £40m deal with a multinational technology company in a bid to improve NHS trusts’ cyber security with “cutting-edge technology”.
A trust has lost its legal challenge aimed at getting a local authority to retender a sexual health services contract awarded to a charity provider.
An accident and emergency department is to be temporarily downgraded to a 24/7 urgent treatment centre because of patient safety fears.
WORKFORCE: South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust chief executive Tricia Hart is to retire.
PEFORMANCE: South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust been rated ‘requires improvement’ by the Care Quality Commission.
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