All South West articles – Page 89

HSJ Local
Use of agency increases in wake of Cornwall headcount reduction

2011-10-21T15:16:00Z

WORKFORCE: Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, which is trying to cut 400 posts out of the workforce, has increased the number of agency staff it uses.
HSJ Local
Royal Cornwall hit by readmissions tariff

2011-10-21T14:59:00Z

FINANCE: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust is underperforming by £2.3m against the contract with its main commissioner, largely due to unpaid readmissions.
HSJ Local
Delay to plans for integrated sexual health service

2011-10-17T18:27:00Z

PERFORMANCE: All but one of the services provided by new social enterprise Sirona Care & Health has been registered by the Care Quality Commission.
HSJ Local
South West trusts sign pharma research deal

2011-10-17T18:08:00Z

COMMERCIAL: Five NHS trusts have begun working with the world’s biggest biopharmaceutical company to provide patients for clinical trials.
HSJ Local
New Somerset social enterprise sets 'marker in the sand'

2011-10-14T18:29:00Z

STRUCTURE: A social enterprise has expressed a formal interest in taking on primary care trust estate despite Department of Health rules banning non NHS organisations from taking on NHS assets.
HSJ Local
GWAS names FT partner

2011-10-14T17:32:00Z

STRUCTURE: Great Western Ambulance Service has named South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust as its preferred takeover partner.
HSJ Local
Cases of C difficile fall at Gloucestershire's community hospitals

2011-10-13T18:11:00Z

PERFORMANCE: Cases of clostridium difficile in NHS Gloucestershire’s community hospitals fell by 25 per cent in 2010-11 compared to the previous year.
HSJ Local
BANES rejects GPs claim for responsibility payment

2011-10-13T18:11:00Z

FINANCE: NHS Bath and North East Somerset has agreed to pay GPs on the local clinical commissioning group a higher rate of backfill than neighbouring PCTs but has rejected requests for an additional “responsibility payment”.
HSJ Local
Weston confirms it is not viable

2011-10-12T18:35:00Z

STRUCTURE: Weston Area Health Trust has declared it is not viable in its current form in its tripartite formal agreement setting out how it plans to achieve foundation trust status.
HSJ Local
Staff shortages force admissions halt at new CIC

2011-10-11T19:23:00Z

WORKFORCE: Peninsula Community Health has suspended new admissions to one of its community hospitals due to staff shortages.
HSJ Local
NHS Gloucestershire invests in telehealth

2011-10-11T18:59:00Z

COMMERCIAL: NHS Gloucestershire has signed a £5m contract with Tunstall Healthcare for the provision of a telehealth service to 2,000 patients with long term conditions.
HSJ Local
NHS Somerset delegates community and mental health commissioning

2011-10-11T18:23:00Z

STRUCTURE: NHS Somerset has delegated responsibility for the commissioning of community and mental health services worth more than £128m to the Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group.
HSJ Local
Contract to wire North Bristol Trust new PFI hospital awarded

2011-10-10T18:09:00Z

COMMERCIAL: Apex Wiring Solutions has won a multi-million pound contract to supply wiring for North Bristol Trust’s new £430m private finance initiative hospital.
HSJ Local
University Hospitals Bristol records mixed sex breaches

2011-10-06T17:46:00Z

PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust had three mixed sex accomodation breaches in July.
HSJ Local
North Bristol exceeds C difficile and MSSA targets

2011-10-06T17:41:00Z

PERFORMANCE: North Bristol Trust has exceeded its target for cases of C difficile and reached its annual limit for MRSA cases.
HSJ Local
Two social enterprises up and running in the south west

2011-10-05T17:32:00Z

STRUCTURE: The provider arms of NHS North Somerset and NHS Bristol have begun trading as social enterprises following a successful transfer on 1 October.
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Interim medical director at Taunton and Somerset

2011-10-05T17:30:00Z

WORKFORCE: An interim medical director has been appointed at Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust.
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Royal Devon and Exeter gets backing for £19m research centre

2011-10-04T17:29:00Z

COMMERCIAL: Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust has been granted planning permission for a £19m research centre.
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South West gets 'special consideration' for surgery site

2011-10-03T15:27:00Z

COMMERCIAL: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust and Plymouth Hospitals Trust are both to continue providing gynaecological cancer surgery on site after agreeing to create one multi-disciplinary team spanning the two trusts.
News
Ambulance services strive to avoid A&E

2011-09-30T18:31:00Z

Two of England’s ambulance services have reduced the proportion of patients they convey to accident and emergency departments by more than 7 per cent since April, new figures from the Department of Health show.