The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Page 9
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NewsCCGs to retender out of hours contract after legal row
Four clinical commissioning groups in north east England have scrapped a near complete procurement process for their GP out of hours services after a legal challenge by one of the bidders.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat is the right shape for hospital chains?
Local and central needs must be balanced if hospital chains are to succeed
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HSJ Local
Newcastle FT exceeds C Diff threshold in 2013-14
PERFORMANCE: Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust reported 86 cases of C difficile in 2013-14, exceeding its threshold of 66, according to papers discussed at the June meeting of Gateshead, Newcastle North and and East and Newcastle West CCGs.
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HSJ Local
Newcastle FT fails to meet nursing staffing levels
WORKFORCE: Planned nurse staffing levels were not met for 19 per cent of inpatient shifts at Newcastle Upon Tyne Foundation Trust in April, according to a paper discussed at its May board meeting.
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Comment'An irreversible shift in power was long overdue': 10 years of FTs
Milburn, Bennett and more review the sector
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HSJ Knowledge
Four hours in A&E: what the target tells us about trusts
Does performance reflect the leadership?
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NewsUncertain future for Project Diamond funding
The future of funding for highly specialist treatments in various hospitals has been thrown into uncertainty after the Department of Health decided to stop providing a £62m budget that supplements it.
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HSJ KnowledgeSpending to save: The innovative response to the Francis report for the nursing workforce
How the focus on clinical practice is bringing about new ways of working at leading trusts
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NewsExclusive: Hospital chains win backing
Discussions have begun between national NHS bodies on how the provider landscape can be radically reshaped, including on providers forming national chains of hospitals and services.
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NewsHSJ Live 10.02.2014 Vasco-Knight suspended with immediate effect
The chief executive of South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust, accused of “nepotism” by two whistleblowers, has been suspended, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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NewsFT boards to be independently reviewed every three years
Monitor has detailed how it expects foundation trusts to arrange external reviews of their board’s effectiveness every three years.
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HSJ Local
Legal challenge issued after out-of-hours firm loses bids
A provider of GP out-of-hours services is taking legal action after it lost bids in two out of three areas where they being tendered.
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NewsLeading foundation trusts explore moves into primary care
Two of the most powerful acute and tertiary trusts in the country are looking to expand into providing primary care to establish vertically integrated provider organisations, HSJ has discovered.
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HSJ Local
Newcastle FT breaches its C diff trajectory
PERFORMANCE: Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust recorded 45 cases of C difficile in the year to date, “breaching its trajectory” of 33 cases, according to board papers from North Tyneside clinical commissioning group.
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HSJ Local
Newcastle FT records five never events in four months
PERFORMANCE: Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust has had five never events between April and September 2013, according to board papers from the Newcastle and Gateshead CCG Alliance.
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HSJ Local
Oxford gets AHSC status, but Birmingham and Newcastle fail
Newcastle and Birmingham have failed in their attempts to become academic health science centres, although Oxford’s bid has succeeded.
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HSJ Local
Newcastle FT £2m ahead of plan
The Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was £2m ahead of its financial plan at the end of June.
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NewsThree applicants seek academic health science centre status
Three partnerships between hospital trusts and medical schools are bidding to be accredited as academic health science centres, HSJ understands.