All THE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST articles – Page 10
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North Cumbria University Hospitals speeds up takeover process
STRUCTURE: The trust board decided last night to accelerate the timetable for its planned takeover, and expects to be able to choose its preferred bidder in January this year.
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NewsExclusive: top teaching hospitals under threat from tariff system
The payment by results tariff system could tip England’s elite teaching hospitals into deficit and damage the country’s medical research industry, their chief executives have warned.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe toolkit hoping to revolutionise the use of patient discharge data
Trusts have struggled with delivering patient discharge summaries rapidly to GPs. It is hoped that a new interactive toolkit will guide organisations through developing electronic systems that will overcome the problems, says Daloni Carlisle.
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Financial pressures 'beginning to emerge' in Newcastle
FINANCE: Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tyneside primary care organisations are already reporting overspends according to NHS North of Tyne board papers.
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Walkergate Hospital passes CQC spot checks
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was meeting standards relating to dignity and nutrition during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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North Cumbria opts for 'accelerated' process to select merger partner
STRUCTURE: The trust aims to have found a foundation trust to take it over by October this year, and to dissolve by October 2012, latest board papers show.
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South Tees Hospitals offers new diagnostic test
COMMERCIAL: South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust is offering a new pre-natal diagnostic service, currently only available at one other site in the North East.
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NewsFTs make pre-emptive defence against Hospital Guide findings
Two large foundation trusts have questioned the methods and findings of the Dr Foster Hospital Guide, ahead of its publication this weekend.
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NewsNorth East PCTs to vote on forming social enterprise
Around 2,500 staff at three primary care trust provider arms in the North East are to be balloted about becoming the largest social enterprise in the health sector.
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NewsCost of weekend A&E police cover revealed
Hospitals are paying tens of thousands of pounds for police officers to cover accident and emergency departments on Friday and Saturday nights, it has been disclosed.