All South West articles – Page 90
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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.
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Use of agency increases in wake of Cornwall headcount reduction
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.
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Royal Cornwall hit by readmissions tariff
FINANCE: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust is underperforming by £2.3m against the contract with its main commissioner, largely due to unpaid readmissions.
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Delay to plans for integrated sexual health service
PERFORMANCE: All but one of the services provided by new social enterprise Sirona Care & Health has been registered by the Care Quality Commission.
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South West trusts sign pharma research deal
COMMERCIAL: Five NHS trusts have begun working with the world’s biggest biopharmaceutical company to provide patients for clinical trials.
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New Somerset social enterprise sets 'marker in the sand'
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.
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GWAS names FT partner
STRUCTURE: Great Western Ambulance Service has named South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust as its preferred takeover partner.
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BANES rejects GPs claim for responsibility payment
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”.
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Cases of C difficile fall at Gloucestershire's community hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Cases of clostridium difficile in NHS Gloucestershire’s community hospitals fell by 25 per cent in 2010-11 compared to the previous year.
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Weston confirms it is not viable
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.
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Staff shortages force admissions halt at new CIC
WORKFORCE: Peninsula Community Health has suspended new admissions to one of its community hospitals due to staff shortages.