All South West articles – Page 58
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Dorset CCG highlights continuing care risk
FINANCE: Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group has set aside £4.9m for risks associated with continuing healthcare claims and over performance on acute contracts during 2013-14.
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Devon Partnership looks to save with nurse prescribing
WORKFORCE: Devon Partnership Trust plans to save money by rolling out non-medical prescribing for certain drugs. However, nurses and other clinicians who take on the extr responsibility will not be paid more.
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Three south west trusts launch joint IT procurement
COMMERCIAL: Three south west trusts have launched a joint tender for a new electronic health record system.
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Royal Cornwall sets itself £14.2m CIP target
FINANCE Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has set itself a cost improvement plan target of £14.2m for 2013-14.
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Great Western sets itself £16m CIP target
FINANCE Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust has set itself a cost improvement plan target of £16m for 2013-14.
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HSJ KnowledgeSeconds out: time to beat the clock in A&E
The A&E crisis can only be solved with a system-wide solution
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South Devon sets itself £11.4m CIP target
FINANCE South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust has set itself a cost improvement plan target of £11.4m for 2013-14.
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Royal Cornwall continues to fail on A&E target
PERFORMANCE: Just 89.8 per cent of patients at Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust’s accident and emergency department were treated or admitted and discharged within four hours in June.
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Kernow CCG due diligence discovers wrongly transferred assets
STRUCTURE: Medical equipment and 35 IT servers were wrongly transferred from Cornwall Primary Care Trust to Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group, a due diligence process has discovered.
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Royal Cornwall passes CQC inspection
PERFORMANCE: Care Quality Commission inspectors found the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust was meeting five of the essential standards during an inspection in May.
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Dorset County above limit for C-diff
PERFORMANCE: Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust was above its limit for cases of c-difficile in May by one case.
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Northern Devon working with community over bed closures
STRUCTURE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust is planning to close 10 community hospital beds as part of a pilot designed to deliver more care closer to home.
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Kernow CCG plans to reject Propco invoices
FINANCE: Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group plans to reject invoices from NHS Property Services as they “significantly exceed” funding for estates costs.
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Dorset County behind on surplus
FINANCE: Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust was behind plan on its surplus by more than £400,000 at the end of May, latest board papers reveal.
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Royal Devon forecasts deficit
FINANCE: Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust is forecasting a £77,000 deficit at year end against a planned £100,000 surplus.
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Monitor given more time to consider Bristol service swaps
STRUCTURE: The Department of Health has granted Monitor more time to consider whether the benefits of service swaps between Bristol’s two acute trusts outweigh the loss of competition.
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New technology piles pressure on cancer waits at Royal Devon
PERFORMANCE: The extra demand created by the introduction of robotic surgery at Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust caused the trust to miss cancer waiting targets for three consecutive quarters.
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HSJ LocalMerger FTs propose friends and family test to allay competition concern
STRUCTURE: The foundation trusts whose merger plans face being blocked by the Competition Commission have proposed their performance in the friends and family test is used to mitigate against the loss of competition.
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Plymouth Hospitals patient undergoes surgery without general anaesthetic
RESEARCH: A 65-year-old woman has become the first patient at Plymouth Hospitals Trust to use an ipad as a distraction technique during surgery.