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FT pipeline progress for Sussex Community Trust
STRUCTURE: Sussex Community Trust has been given the green light to move forward to the next stage of its preparations to achieve foundation status in 2014.
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Royal Surrey medic wins NICE scholarship
WORKFORCE: Dr Matthew Rogers a year-five specialty trainee in haematology has been awarded a scholarship by the National Insitutute for Health and Care Excellence.
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QVH nursing director made NICE fellow
WORKFORCE: Amanda Parker, director of nursing, Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been made a NICE Fellow for 2013-16.
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£30m efficiency requirement in 2013-14 for Brighton Hospitals
FINANCE: Brighton and Sussex Hospitals Trust will have to make £30m of savings in the next financial year to deliver a one per cent surplus.
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Brighton hospitals may move chemotherapy into community
SERVICES: Sussex cancer patients could be offered chemotherapy in the community to reduce the pressure at hospitals.
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Sussex Community Trust redesigns safeguarding training
WORKFORCE: Sussex Community Trust is redesigning some of its training in safeguarding children because of unacceptably low number of staff being appropriately trained.
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Trust investigates streptococcal infections at Crawley Hospital
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Community Trust is investigating how nine patients on a ward at Crawley Hospital came to contract a group A streptococcal (GAS) infection.
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Eastbourne CCG requires £18.4m savings next year
FINANCE: Eastbourne. Hailsham and Seaford CCG will need to make £18.4m savings in the next financial year – most of that in the acute sector.
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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells 'grossly' over activity
FINANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust is ‘grossly’ overperforming on contracts with its main commissioners with a £26m overspend to the end of month 11. The vast majority of this is with West Kent PCT.
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Long waits for CAMH in Kent and Medway
PERFORMANCE: Young people with mental health problems in Kent are having to wait more than six months for a specialist assessment.
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Kent and Medway reports QIPP slip
FINANCE: Only 55 per cent of planned QIPP savings of £57m were delivered in Kent and Medway to the end of January.
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Severe A&E pressure at Brighton and Sussex
PERFORMANCE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has had 34 12 hour trolley waits since January – and has had to declare ‘major incidents’ twice because of the severe pressure on A&E.
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South East Ambulance deals with more patients over phone
SERVICES: A new method of triaging and responding to calls to the ambulance service has seen more patients dealt with over the phone – but has not always been popular with patients.
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Brighton and Sussex reconsidering whistleblowing policy
WORKFORCE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust is considering reshaping its approach to whistleblowing.
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BSUH within C Difficile target
PERFORMANCE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has seen higher rates of C Difficile infection in February and March although it remains well within its target of no more than 71 cases for the year at just 46.
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Trust loses F1 surgical trainees following concerns
WORKFORCE: A training issue has left a major hospital without any general surgical foundation one year doctors for four months.
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Winter complaints surge for South East Ambulance
PERFORMANCE: December and January saw a dramatic increase in complaints about South East Coast Ambulance Service with a rise to 60 compared to 33 in the same period last year.
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Kent CCGs expected to have conditions once authorised
STRUCTURE: All CCGs are expected to still have conditions attached to their authorisation when they formally take over next month.
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Mixed sex accommodation breach peak in Kent and Medway
PERFORMANCE: Kent and Medway had 35 breaches of the mixed sex accommodation rules in January – with 20 of these at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust.
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Kent and Medway A&E performance dips below target
PERFORMANCE: The four hour A&E standard across Kent and Medway has fallen below 95 per cent. A report to the last meeting of the Kent and Medway PCT cluster board says it dipped below 95 per cent for year to date in mid January and was at 94.8 per cent ...