PERFORMANCE: Royal Wolverhampton HospitalsTrust is expecting to have 146 cases of C difficile this financial year - more than double its target of 65.
By the end of January the trust had had 122 cases, with 15 cases in the month.
February 2012
A teaching hospital is considering closing its urology service to out of area referrals, as it struggles to deal with a backlog of cases.
A maternity department facing investigation into more than 100 alleged cases of poor care has been found by the CQC to be repeating mistakes which led to avoidable deaths almost 10 years ago, HSJ can reveal today.
An NHS pathology contract worth more than £2bn has been put on the market with the aim of linking eight trusts’ laboratory services.
Four trusts pursing a major pathology services merger in the West Midlands may reduce the number of staff working across them by more than a third, HSJ has learned.
A major alliance of acute providers in the West Midlands is being expanded to include a fourth trust, HSJ has learned.
An acute trust in the West Midlands is now running nearly a fifth of GP practices in its area after integrating with its eighth practice.
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