University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust – Page 18
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News
A&E performance tracker: Improvement continues at end of May
Accident and emergency performance has again improved on the previous week’s position, the latest data shows.
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HSJ Local
North Staffs calls in police to investigate 'malicious campaign'
Police have been asked to investigate a “malicious campaign” against a hospital doctor after letters alleging poor care were sent to three patients and their families.
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Retirement announcement follows months of scrutiny and criticism
Sir David Nicholson’s announcement of his retirement follows several months of intense criticism and scrutiny of his leadership, and his role in relation to the Mid Staffordshire care failures.
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Exclusive: Francis presses government on criminal sanctions
The absence of an ability to prosecute individual NHS staff in cases of serious patient neglect would cause “public confidence” in the service to “evaporate”, Robert Francis QC has told HSJ.
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Leader
Leader: Francis demands more honesty from the NHS
Robert Francis wants to shift the NHS’s centre of gravity
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News
Francis concerned about failure to merge regulators' 'leadership'
The refusal to merge NHS provider regulation into a single organisation could leave the system open to mistakes, Robert Francis QC has told HSJ.
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Francis warns recommendations could be lost in 'long grass'
Robert Francis QC has cautioned the government against allowing its review of safety in the NHS to “disappear beneath the long grass”. He also called for an “honest” conversation between the NHS and the public about which health services could be safely provided.
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NHS leaders must make improvements, warns Francis
NHS leaders who fail to make improvements in response to the Francis report should not have “a place in that system”, Robert Francis QC has told HSJ.
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News
Francis criticises nursing leaders
The leaders of the nursing profession have been criticised by Robert Francis QC, who told HSJ he has seen little to “give him cause for optimism”.
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HSJ Local
North Staffordshire trust reports surplus after cash injection
FINANCE: University Hospital of North Staffordshire has reported a £0.2m surplus for 2012-13 after receiving a £19m cash injection to cope with extra emergency demand.
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Trusts submit deficit plans for 2013-14 amid 'going concern' worries
The NHS Trust Development Authority has written to trusts assuring them they can be classed as “a going concern” by auditors, despite submitting deficit plans for this financial year, HSJ has learned.
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Trusts ease pay savings in Francis aftermath, analysis shows
Hospital trusts are disproportionately targeting non-pay costs and seeking extra income as they embark on a £2.4bn savings drive in 2013-14, an exclusive HSJ analysis reveals.
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Comment
Lessons from the NHS's failure regimes so far
Will the new regimes help trusts to avoid failure?
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HSJ Local
North Staffordshire Trust appoints new chief executive
WORKFORCE: Financially struggling University Hospital of North Staffordshire has appointed Mark Hackett as chief executive.
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News
Ombudsman: NHS 'failing to listen and learn'
There are “systematic problems” with NHS hospitals failing to listen and learn from patient complaints, the Health Service has Ombudsman said.
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HSJ Local
Council urges criminal action against former Mid Staffs leadership
Stafford Borough Council has called for criminal action to be considered against the former leadership of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust over an alleged death rates cover-up.
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News
Exclusive: Majority believe hospitals 'tolerate poor standards'
A majority of the public believe some hospitals have a “tolerance of poor standards”, according to respondents to a national survey shared exclusively with HSJ.
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News
Exclusive: 'Market' consulted about taking over parts of Mid Staffs
The special administrators of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust are to launch a “market engagement exercise” asking whether other providers - including in the private sector - would be interested in taking on its services, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Partners
Mid Staffordshire market engagement exercise
Office of the Joint Trust Special Administrators, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust: notification of intent to conduct a market engagement exercise
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Comment
Still no change in NHS finance after Francis
The post-Francis world is still worringly ‘business as usual’