PERFORMANCE: According to the latest quality monitoring report from Southampton CCG, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust reported an “above average number of black alerts” in March and April 2013.
These include two patients waiting 12 hours on a trolley since March. The CCG’s associate director for planned and unscheduled care was due to attend the trust daily during April, to “identify key themes and issues for resolution.”
April 2013
A trust leader has announced his retirement after 21 years as an NHS provider chief executive.
National officials have privately acknowledged there may be a shortage of incinerator capacity for burning clinical waste – contrary to the government’s public assertions – documents seen by HSJ show.
More than half of the 29 proposed pathology networks comprising acute and specialist NHS trusts have yet to agree on a model to reconfigure their laboratory services, eight months after the initial deadline passed.
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