All South articles – Page 40
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HSJ Local
Single accountable officer to lead six CCGs
Six clinical commissioning groups in Sussex are to share an accountable officer from next week – at the request of NHS England.
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HSJ Local
Social enterprise takes over children's services
A social enterprise has won a contract to provide all NHS and council commissioned children’s community services in Medway.
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HSJ Local
Hundreds of children waiting years for ADHD assessments
Up to 800 children have been waiting nearly two years for assessments for autistic spectrum conditions and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in Kent, it has emerged.
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HSJ Local
NHS England tells CCG to show more 'gravitas and grip'
A struggling clinical commissioning group was told it needed to show “stronger evidence of gravitas and grip” and move away from a “reactive and negatively critical approach” by an NHS England review.
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HSJ Local
New CCG alliance brings in consultants to review governance
Four clinical commissioning groups that formed an alliance at the start of the year have hired PwC to carry out a review of their governance.
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News
Best and worst hospitals in each area for staff recommending care
A breakdown by area of acute and combined trusts performance on the NHS staff survey, according to the share of employees who would recommend their organisation for work or care.
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Highest and lowest trusts in each area for staff witnessing care mistakes
A breakdown by area of acute trusts by the share of staff saying they had witnessed potentially harmful errors, near misses or incidents in the last month, in the 2017 NHS staff survey.
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The trusts in each area with most staff reporting bullying
A national and regional breakdown of results for acute trusts by the percentage of staff reporting experiencing harassment, bullying or abuse from other staff in last 12 months, in the NHS staff survey 2017.
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News
Trust chair criticises 'failure' to act on service change
A departing chair has said his trust has been held back over the past 20 years because of the local system’s failure to take action to improve services.
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News
Trust criticised after five falls deaths in frailty unit
An acute trust has been heavily criticised by a coroner after five patients died following falls in the same frailty unit within four months.
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News
In full: Pathology network proposals
HSJ approached the 29 pathology networks proposed by NHS Improvement to ask if local trusts had signed up. In most cases the proposed “hub” trust was able to answer on behalf of its network.
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News
NHSI pathology proposals agreed by less than half of trusts
Less than half of areas have so far fully agreed to NHS Improvement’s plans to set up a regional pathology network, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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HSJ Local
Trust to change medicine policies to be 'legally compliant'
An ambulance trust has admitted it needs to change its medicines management to be “legally compliant”, including withdrawing a potentially life saving drug from volunteers.
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HSJ Local
Commissioners ask neighbouring CCG to give back £3m
A clinical commissioning group that gave a neighbouring CCG £3m at the start of the financial year has asked for its money back after running into financial problems.
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HSJ Local
Four trusts looking into pharmacy joint venture
Trusts in Berkshire and Surrey are looking at creating a pharmacy joint venture modelled on their existing pathology service.
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HSJ Local
IT upgrade disrupted waiting times and follow-ups, trust admits
A trust has had two months of disruption after an upgrade to its patient administration system which led to patients waiting longer, a rise in “did not attends” and temporary staff being employed to type letters.
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HSJ Local
Former chief executive to chair troubled trust
A former chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare Trust has been appointed as chair at one of the country’s most troubled trusts.
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News
70 trusts working with NHSI to boost workforce retention
Seventy NHS trusts have now been recruited by NHS Improvement to its programme to improve workforce retention rates in the health service.
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HSJ Local
Regulator criticises 'passive and unwieldy' STP
A sustainability and transformation partnership had “not begun to function effectively” when the Care Quality Commission carried out a local system review at the end of 2017.
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Trust expects to miss control total deficit by £30m
A south eastern trust is predicting a deficit worth over £56m – more than double its original plan and 15 per cent of its total income – after being hit by lower elective income and losing a payments dispute with local commissioners.