All TRAFFORD HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST articles – Page 2

HSJ Local
Takeover plans may have led to £1m emergency admissions shortfall at Trafford Healthcare

2011-10-18T17:43:00Z

FINANCE: News of the trust’s need to be taken over by a larger foundation may have driven a £1m shortfall in its emergency admissions income in the first four months of 2011-12, its latest board papers suggest.
News
Lansley identifies 20 'unsustainable' trusts

2011-10-11T12:45:00Z

The government has identified 20 trusts whose “clinical and financial stability is at risk” because of “cash-flow shortages” and legacy debt.
HSJ Local
Manchester fires starting gun on major reconfiguration

2011-09-22T17:26:00Z

STRUCTURE: Primary care trusts across greater Manchester have agreed to pool resources worth tens of millions of pounds a year to fund a major reconfiguration of the city’s planned and emergency hospital services.
Blogs
Go reconfigure?

2011-09-13T14:44:00Z

There was no “clever form of words” to spare the SoS’s blushes in the end.
HSJ Local
Doncaster FT appoints a new chief executive

2011-08-26T17:21:00Z

WORKFORCE: Ron Calvert has been appointed chief executive of Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and will take up the appointment on 1 September.
HSJ Local
First foundation trust authorised in four months announced

2011-08-04T06:30:00Z

STRUCTURE: The first organisation to receive authorisation to become a foundation trust in four months was announced on Friday.
HSJ Local
District general hospital selects FT as takeover partner

2011-07-27T11:01:00Z

STRUCTURE: Trafford Healthcare Trust, with a turnover of £96m, has selected a takeover partner from bids submitted by two nearby foundation trusts.
Comment
One in five organisations who failed April waiting times targets are in North West

2011-07-21T00:00:00Z

A few days after NHS deputy chief executive David Flory issued a curt letter warning the health service not to allow any further failures to hit waiting time targets, an NHS North West board meeting considered the problem.
HSJ Local
CQC notes minor concerns at Trafford General Hospital

2011-07-18T18:03:00Z

PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was meeting standards relating to dignity and nutrition, but also noted minor concerns on both, during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
Comment
The North West's performance problems

2011-07-14T00:00:00Z

A few days after NHS deputy chief executive David Flory issued a curt letter warning the health service not to allow any further failures to hit waiting times targets, an NHS North West board meeting considered its own share of the problem.
HSJ Local
Pennine Acute categorised as “high risk plus” in NHS North West foundation trust pipeline report

2011-07-08T17:56:00Z

STRUCTURE: The trust is one of four categorised as “high risk plus” in NHS North West’s latest update on the progress towards foundation trust status of the non-FTs in its patch.
News
Exclusive: NHS efficiency drive won’t close whole hospitals, says Sir David

2011-06-22T10:02:00Z

No “whole hospital” will have to close as a result of the drive to find £20bn of efficiencies from the NHS budget, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has insisted to HSJ.
HSJ Local
Nursing director to become interim chief exec at Trafford Healthcare

2011-06-15T19:02:00Z

WORKFORCE: Morag Olsen has been appointed acting chief executive of Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust.
HSJ Local
Trafford PCT finance director cautions board on savings plan

2011-06-06T17:20:00Z

FINANCE: The PCT’s finance director has warned the board its £16.1m savings plan must not be allowed to undermine services at the financially struggling Trafford Healthcare Trust.
HSJ Local
Trafford Healthcare faces deep cuts to core acute contract

2011-06-03T17:38:00Z

FINANCE: Trafford Healthcare faces having its core contract for acute work cut from £75.5m to just £39.5m over the next five years, its latest finance report warns.
HSJ Local
Trafford CEO heads to Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals

2011-05-23T17:49:00Z

WORKFORCE: Ron Calvert has been appointed chief executive of Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
HSJ Local
Minister announces merger option for non-FT acute

2011-05-06T11:17:00Z

STRUCTURE: A merger or independent franchise are among the options for a hospital trust which has a private finance deal preventing it from achieving foundation status.
News
Acute trusts' FT plans slip back a year

2011-05-04T13:04:00Z

More than a quarter of the acute trusts still bidding for foundation status have seen their application date slip by over a year.
HSJ Local
Trafford aims to identify preferred takeover bid by July

2011-04-01T18:40:00Z

STRUCTURE: Trafford Healthcare is due to publish a prospectus this month in its bid to be absorbed by a foundation trust.
HSJ Local
Two PCTs find temporary homes for community services as divestment deadline looms

2011-03-10T00:00:00Z

STRUCTURE: At least two primary care trusts are transferring their community services provider arms to temporary caretakers, after failing to identify a long term home for the organisations.