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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:10 |
Principal items only. Altogether a very satisfactory report of what has been happening.
1. CEO report A variety of interesting items reported here. The trust has received full registration by the (new) Care Quality Commission (CQC), which came into being on 1 April. Like many other hospitals NWLH has a shortage of midwives. In London there are 400 vacancies for midwives but there are only 200 being trained. Trouble ahead!
2. Annual Performance This was very good in many areas. The A&E target of 98% patients being treated within 4 hours was reached, for the whole year, in spite of an increase in the number of patients being treated. The MRSA target of 28 cases was met – ‘target’ is the wrong word, it’s actually a permitted maximum. Regarding C.Diff there was a 40% improvement over the last year’s figures. The ‘18 week’ target of 90% (for referral of a patient for tests, diagnosis and treatment) was met comfortably, with 98% and this earned an efficiency bonus of £700K.
3. Swine flu The Trust is well prepared, one of the ‘London referrals’ had been to NPH. Staff in infection units are being advised to have vaccinations. Alert precautions will remain in force for a long (unspecified) time.
4. Cervical screening There is a 14 day target for screening. Numbers have recently increased greatly, referred to as the ‘Jade Goody’ effect.
5. Mid-Staffordshire check list Trusts have been asked to compare their performance against the recent report of multiple failures at the Mid-Staffordshire Trust. Our trust has a clean bill of health in this comparison.
6. Finance With some heroic work on non-recurrent items, the trust finished the financial year with a positive balance of about £170K. An adverse balance is expected for next year.
Paul
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