All South West articles – Page 88
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Plymouth Hospitals overperforms on CIP
FINANCE: Plymouth Hospitals Trust has overacheived on its cost improvement plan by about £1m at month six.
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High activity levels sees Royal Bournemouth surplus double
FINANCE: Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals Foundation Trust is reporting a surplus almost double plan due to over activity.
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Bristol acute tenders for provision of nursing care
COMMERCIAL: An acute trust has issued a highly unusual tender for private partners to help run and build a new health and social care centre.
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Great Western reports wrong site surgery
PERFORMANCE: Great Western Hospital Foundation Trust has reported the occurence of a “never event”.
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Serco wins £32m Cornwall OOH contract
COMMERCIAL: NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly has awarded Serco a five year contract for the provision of out of hours services worth £32m.
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Poole and Royal Bournemouth joint working 'progressing well'
STRUCTURE: Poole Hospital Foundation Trust and Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals Foundation Trust are to decide whether to pursue a formal merger at the end of November.
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GWH consults on back office redundancies
WORKFORCE: Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust has begun a 90 day consultation with “back office staff” around plans to cut posts and save £1.3m.
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North Bristol 'puzzled' to be on Lansley's PFI list
FINANCE: The chief executive of North Bristol Trust was “puzzled” to find the trust included on a list of organisations whose private finance initiative deals may prevent them becoming foundation trusts, board minutes reveal.
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Dorset waiting for news on Olympic funding
FINANCE: Preparations for healthcare provision during the London 2012 Olympic sailing events in Dorset are at “serious” risk due to a lack of identified funding.
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'Very high risk' NHS Devon will fail to achieve savings plans
FINANCE: NHS Devon has identified an overspend on individual placements for mental health patients as a key risk to achieving financial targets this year.
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Yeovil wins £250k research grant
FINANCE: Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust has been awarded a £250,000 research grant by the Department of Health to conduct research into treatement for colorectal cancer.
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NHS Devon highlights safeguarding concern
WORKFORCE: NHS Devon has identified a “serious child safeguarding concern” due to a lack of suitable paediatric posts, according to board papers.
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Non-acute DTOC a cause for concern in Dorset
PERFORMANCE: Delayed transfer of care continues to be a concern for the NHS Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole cluster despite improvements.
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Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset cluster busts C diff target
PERFORMANCE: The NHS Bournemouth and Poole and NHS Dorset cluster has exceeded its year to date clostridium difficile target by more than 30 cases.
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NewsEuropean integrated care models weighed up by struggling hospital
A struggling district general hospital in South West England is considering adopting Europe’s most innovative models of integrated care to ensure future sustainability, HSJ can reveal.
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Cornwall names AQP services
COMMERCIAL: NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly have decided to open up adult primary care psychological therapies, musculo-skeletal services for back and neck pain and community adult hearing services to any qualified provider.
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University Hospitals Bristol struggling with 62 day cancer target
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust is reporting a “high risk” of failing to meet the 62 day referral to treatment target for cancer patients this year.
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North Bristol releases nearly £2m of reserves
FINANCE: North Bristol Trust has had to release £1.7m of reserves to “offset” planned capacity reductions that have not been achieved.
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SW clusters press ahead with development of commissioning support
STRUCTURE: Clinical commissioning groups in the south west have been given until December to decided what commissioning support they want to buy in.
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Plymouth hospital trust warns local CCGs to work together over council boundaries
STRUCTURE: The East Cornwall Clinical Commissioning Group is being encouraged to work closely with two CCGs in neighbouring Devon to better match patient flow.