All UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST articles – Page 11
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Support for children's heart unit intensifies in the South
Nothing mobilises a community quite like a hospital reconfiguration. Especially, it turns out, when the service threatened with possible closure is a children’s heart unit.
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HSJ Local
Hampshire misses CIP target as acute sector over-performs
FINANCE: Hampshire primary care trust missed its 2010-11 cost improvement plan by 10 per cent, and had to spend £9.1m of uncommitted reserves to ensure a £500,000 underspend for the year.
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Salisbury FT seeks major trauma unit status
STRUCTURE: Salisbury Foundation Trust has launched a bid to be designated as a major trauma unit, in line with the implementation of the national trauma strategy.
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New cancer unit planned for Southampton General
STRUCTURE: A dedicated emergency assessment unit for cancer patients is being jointly planned by Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust and Macmillan Cancer Support.
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Lansley opens new clinical research centre in Southampton
STRUCTURE: Health secretary Andrew Lansley has opened a new clinical research centre based at Southampton General Hospital.
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Southampton hospital already behind on CIP
FINANCE: Southampton University Hospitals Trust slipped significantly behind its cost improvement plan for April, while its financial indicators were rated red under the Monitor compliance framework.
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Southampton PCT identifies reforms pace as 'catastrophic risk'
PERFORMANCE: NHS Southampton City has said the rapid structural reforms to the NHS reforms could distract from improving the population’s health, while the area’s health economy risks being unsustainable in the long term.
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Portsmouth Hospitals 'disappointed' in PFI partner
FINANCE: Portsmouth Hospitals Trust has announced it is “disappointed” at its private finance initiative partner’s decision to increase car parking charges by 5.5 per cent.
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HSJ Local
South Central renews joint contract for payroll services
COMMERCIAL: Ten NHS organisations in South Central have renewed their contract with NHS Shared Business Services for another four years.
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HSJ Local
Commisioners agree to pick up the bill for Portsmouth's PFI
FINANCE: Commissioners in south east Hampshire have agreed to pay the unitary payments of the private finance initiative for any parts of Portsmouth’s Queen Alexandra Hospital estate that can be freed up for alternative uses.
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Southampton shocked at potential loss of children's heart surgery
STRUCTURE: Management at Southampton University Hospitals were shocked to find they were at risk of being stopped from carrying out paediatric cardiac surgery in England despite excellent clinical ratings, according to board papers.
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Southampton University Hospital revises down planned surplus
FINANCE: Southampton University Hospital Trust has revised down its planned year end surplus by £1.4m.
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Salisbury FT offers services for new trauma centre
STRUCTURE: Salisbury Foundation Trust could provide plastic surgery for a new major trauma centre at Southampton University Hospitals Trust.
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HSJ Local
NHS Oxfordshire health system 'failing'
PERFORMANCE: The health system in the NHS Oxfordshire area has been judged as failing by South Central SHA.
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HSJ Local
NHS Hampshire gather consortia around acute trusts
STRUCTURE: GPs in Hampshire are planning to create consortia primarily focused around acute providers.
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HSJ Local
Three new additions to the board at Southampton University Hospital
WORKFORCE: A charity chief executive and a former partner in a consultancy firm are among the new additions to the board at Southampton University Hospital.
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HSJ Local
NHS Hamphire's debt repayment reduced by SHA
FINANCE: NHS Hampshire is forecasting to break even after the SHA halved its planned debt repayment for the year.
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News
Trust appoints stroke director
Southampton University Hospitals Trust has appointed its first director to run and promote the region’s NHS stroke services.
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News
Quality vascular surgery ‘requires centralisation’
Vascular surgery should be centralised before strategic health authorities and primary care trusts are abolished, the president of the Vascular Society has argued. Cliff Shearman’s comments follow the publication of an audit calling for greater centralisation to improve quality.
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NHS management consultancy bill defended
A trust facing the loss of up to 600 staff has defended its decision to spend £3.4m on management consultants in three years.