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Community mental health move in Kent
STRUCTURE: Kent and Medway Partnership NHS and Social Care Foundation Trust has relocated a raft of community services in Dartford.
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Kent and Medway closes Trinity Road facility
STRUCTURE: Kent and Medway Partnership NHS and Social Care Foundation Trust has vacated one of its properties because it has judged it is not fit for purpose.
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New managing director sought by Sussex Partnership
WORKFORCE: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking applicants for a new post of managing director of adult mental health services.
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No criminal offences following Kent neuro investigation
PERFORMANCE: Kent police say no criminal offences took place at a hospital unit at the centre of an investigation into patient care.
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BSUH upgrading radiotherapy machines
STRUCTURE: The NHS in Sussex is improving its radiotherapy provision with the replacement and upgrading of four current linac machines at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton by the end of 2014.
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Sussex Partnership in tie up with Care UK
COMMERCIAL: A mental health trust has entered into a groundbreaking joint venture with a private company to deliver services to the NHS.
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East Sussex centralises maternity and children's services after 'calamity' warning
A hospital trust is to centralise its consultant-led maternity and paediatric inpatient services onto one site without consulting the public, after an expert team warned of “the potential for calamity”.
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Trust faces £1.5m fine for small C Difficile breach
PERFORMANCE: A trust which has had just one case of clostridium difficile cross infection this year faces a penalty of at least £1.5m for exceeding its target number of cases by three.
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Trauma stretching A&E at Brighton and Sussex
PERFORMANCE: A significant increase in trauma cases is stretching A&E services at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust and affecting its performance against the four hour target.
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Brighton and Sussex has lost 492 bed days to norovirus
PERFORMANCE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has seen 493 bed days lost to norovirus so far this financial year with 225 patients and 55 staff members affected.
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Medway FT missed four hour target
PERFORMANCE: Medway Foundation Trust missed the four hour A&E target in January. But while nearly 93.5 per cent of people were treated, admitted or discharged within four hours one patient had to wait 19 hours and 36 minutes before being admitted.
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Queen Victoria told to improve record keeping
PERFORMANCE: The Queen Victoria Hospital Foundation Trust has been told to improve its record keeping by the Care Quality Commission.
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Royal Surrey records surplus
FINANCE: The Royal Surrey County Hospital Foundation Trust was £400,000 in surplus at the end of December – but made a loss of £200,000 in the month itself, reflecting a small number of working days and patients choosing not to have major surgery around Christmas. It has a revised planned ...
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Sussex Partnership short on savings
FINANCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust has only made £8.7m of its planned £10.9m savings so far this financial year.
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DTOC review at Sussex Partnership
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust has launched a review of delayed transfer of care after the number soared to the highest since it became a foundation trust.
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Trust acknowledges errors in care of patient found hanged
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust has said it “sincerely regrets” the shortcomings in the care provided to a man with mental health problems who was found dead at his home last year.
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Royal Surrey looks to cut workforce
WORKFORCE: Royal Surrey County Hospital Foundation Trust is seeking to make around 30 staff redundant as part of efforts to reduce its workforce.
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Hike in older patients at Western Sussex Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust has “continued to experience particularly high levels of activity in care for older people”, according to board papers.
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Small deficit predicted by Medway FT
FINANCE: Medway Foundation Trust expects to finish the current financial year with a small £1m deficit, according to a board finance report.
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Brighton and Sussex celebrates orthopaedics improvements
PERFORMANCE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has claimed its trauma and orthopaedics services are going from “strength to strength”.