Private provider taking over at NHS trust now building its own hospital

Work is to start this month on the second UK hospital of a staff-owned consortium that has been making inroads into taking on NHS services. Circle, which opened its first hospital in Bath last year, winning design awards and good patient... <<Read more>>

Stroke Unit continues to develop new services

When Professor Roger Boyle, the NHS National Director for Heart Disease and Stroke made a visit to the region to officially open a state-of-the-art 20-bed integrated stroke unit at one of the region’s top performing hospitals in November 2008, it marked the completion of a £750,000 development at South Tyneside District Hospital.

Every year, around 400 people in South Tyneside suffer a stroke...

Rotherham Hospital Agency Worker Imprisoned For £18K Fraud

An agency worker who was overpaid by over £18,000 after submitting forged timesheets,

was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment at Sheffield Crown Court  (Thursday 1 st July). David Steven Sammons, earlier pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud under the Fraud Act 2006. This follows an investigation by NHS Rotherham Foundation Trust’s Local Counter Fraud Specialist (LCFS)...

FTN welcomes consultation on healthcare regulation

The Foundation Trust Network has welcomed the explicit support for foundation trusts and the recognition of FTs’ success to date in the consultation document on regulating healthcare providers.

The consultation follows the outlines in the White Paper, Liberating the NHS, and poses detailed questions on new freedoms for foundation trusts. These freedoms, for instance regarding finance and governance, are designed to ensure that...