All UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST articles – Page 18
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HSJ Local
Birmingham A&E performance dips
PERFORMANCE: Accident and emergency performance in Birmingham and Solihull declined in September, and is rated as amber.
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NewsConcern over 12 trusts' death rates
Death rates at 12 hospital trusts in England were alarmingly high last year, according to an influential report.
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'Significant' risk in specialised services upheaval, says board
The new commissioning system for the £12bn specialist services budget in 2013-14 will be “radically different” but its introduction involves a “significant” risk, the NHS Commissioning Board has said.
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HSJ Local
University Hospitals Birmingham set to fall 5 per cent short on CIP
FINANCE: University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust is forecasting a five per cent shortfall in its cost improvement plan this year.
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HSJ Local
High income exceeds overspend at Birmingham trust
FINANCE: Income at University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust was £10.6m over budget in the first six months of 2012-13, with an over spend of £9.5m
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HSJ Local
Birmingham cluster overperforms on UHB contract
FINANCE: The Birmingham and Solihull primary care trust cluster is overspending by £2.6m on its contract with University Hospitals Birmingham.
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HSJ Local
Fifteen nurse hours per bed day at Shelford Group trusts
WORKFORCE: Research carried for the Shelford Group, which represents England’s most powerful teaching hospitals, shows each patient bed day accounts for an average of 15 nurse hours.
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HSJ Local
UH Birmingham praised on VTE
RESEARCH: University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust has been named an “exemplar centre” for venous thromboembolism in recognition of its work on blood clot prevention.
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NewsMost powerful hospital trusts ask for more funding
England’s 10 most prestigious teaching and research hospital trusts have asked the Department of Health and the Treasury for a 10 per cent top-up to their tariff payments, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
BBC to feature Birmingham liver research
RESEARCH: Pioneering research carried out at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham is to be featured on a BBC Radio 4 programme on liver disease.
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NewsExpand independent sector provision, says 'most powerful' hospital chief
The NHS’s most powerful hospital trust chief executive has used a HSJ interview to call for an expansion of independent sector provision.
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HSJ Local
Bid for Birmingham 'medical quarter'
COMMERCIAL: Property developers and a leading healthcare technology firm have joined forced to try and create a ‘medical quarter’ in Birmingham.
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HSJ Local
Birmingham trust introduces new skin cancer drug
Two patients at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham were among the first in the country to start receiving a new anti-cancer drug within days of it being granted a licence.
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HSJ Local
Increased income at Birmingham trust exceeds overspend
FINANCE: Clinical divisions at University Hospitals Birmingham reported a £1.5m favourable variance in divisional income against expenditure for 2011-12, due to healthcare income £13.3m more than expected.
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HSJ Local
Birmingham FT £1.8m behind on CIP
FINANCE: University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust achieved 91 per cent of its £18.8m cost improvement plan savings in 2011-12.
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HSJ Local
Lessons learned from war injuries
RESEARCH: Lessons learned by doctors and surgeons treating injured soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan in the past decade have been set out in a new report.
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: Birmingham and Solihull CCGs find their form
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of the key issues facing the NHS’s major health economies. This week: how the CCGs in Birmingham and Solihull are shaping up, and their plans to tackle QIPP.
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NewsExclusive: London and Manchester to get beam therapy investment
Andrew Lansley will tomorrow announce two hospitals that will offer Proton Beam Therapy for the treatment of cancer.
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NewsBirmingham chief executive made a dame in new year's honours
The chief executive of University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust has been made a dame in the new year’s honours list.
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HSJ Local
Birmingham hospitals identify surgery reconfiguration benefits
STRUCTURE: A proposed service model for a single clinical team for vascular surgery in Birmingham has been identified by the trust as part of reconfiguration plans.