Regulators demand new team to help 'turn around' Morecambe Bay Hospital Trust (From The Westmorland Gazette)
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Regulators demand new team to help 'turn around' Morecambe Bay Hospital Trust
4:25pm Monday 6th February 2012 in News
REGULATORS have announced they will formally intervene in the running of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust (UHMBT).
Watchdog Monitor has used its formal powers of intervention to ensure management work more effectively on behalf of patients.
After a review found continued failings, Monitor’s Board has decided to intervene to strengthen trust management.
It has stepped in to appoint an external interim chairman, Sir David Henshaw to drive the recovery of the trust.
It has also demanded the trust appoints a turnaround director, to be agreed with Monitor, to develop and deliver an effective recovery plan and creates a programme management office.
Monitor has also demanded the Trust appoints an interim chief operating officer, to be agreed with Monitor, to run the day to day activities of the trust across all its hospital sites.
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Skeptical
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7:00pm Mon 6 Feb 12
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I am not suggesting anything, but merely interested to know if Phil Halsall is related to Tony Halsall? I assume not would like this confirming.
Ricky T Legg
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12:01pm Tue 7 Feb 12
lly as both Sir David and Phil Halsall share some history at Liverpool City Council. Phil H being part of a team put together by Sir David.
David Henshaw seems to have a good track record despite falling out with elected members of the council.
Will he sort this problem out?? Who knows? Will Tony H keep his job and how much will he get if he goes??
This is like a festering sore with appalling gunge continuing to be produced.
GuidoFawkes
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12:15pm Tue 7 Feb 12
Skeptical
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12:27pm Tue 7 Feb 12
Utter
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1:01pm Tue 7 Feb 12
gadgetgadget
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1:30pm Tue 7 Feb 12
gadgetgadget
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1:31pm Tue 7 Feb 12
WilliamT
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2:04pm Tue 7 Feb 12
Just having the 'turnaround director' on the books will give them 6 months even if nothing really improves.
gadgetgadget
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3:16pm Tue 7 Feb 12
Monitor have published their reports today....
http://www.monitor-n
hsft.gov.uk/home/abo
ut-nhs-foundation-tr
usts/regulatory-acti
on/formal-interventi
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Have a look under the pull down for UHMBT and the three main PDF reports are available.
gadgetgadget
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3:27pm Tue 7 Feb 12
Both are very damning of a management structure that fails to take responsibility etc etc.
Well worth a read imo.
Utter
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5:54pm Tue 7 Feb 12
WilliamT
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8:45pm Tue 7 Feb 12
hemyfan
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9:44pm Tue 7 Feb 12
hemyfan
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1:35am Wed 8 Feb 12
http://www.guardian.
co.uk/society/2012/f
eb/07/doctor-suspend
ed-cumbria-hospital
It's on the front page of The Guardian website. Nowhere on yours.
gadgetgadget
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1:47pm Wed 8 Feb 12
Particularly it has to be said the governance one - that highlights some basic but very serious deficiencies in especially in management failing to take responsibilities or to even want to listen to concerns both from staff and patients.
These reports when taken as a whole reflect a management structure that is unfit for purpose.
It reflects a Chief Executive who has resided over a catalogue of disasters, blatently lied on promises that services were corrected, failed to ensure that they were actually corrected, failed to lead by example and who has little real medical experience.
I can only hope that the calls for him to resign now increase - he must imo go and stop clinging on by his fingertips.
hemyfan
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2:07pm Wed 8 Feb 12
"It was notable that despite the recent number of serious untoward incidents there was no senior presence on the FGH site above midwifery matron level (Band 8a), with the Executive Team and Divisional Management Team being based at Westmorland General Hospital. The review team considered this a significant gap in the provision of visible leadership in an area of high risk."
hemyfan
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2:11pm Wed 8 Feb 12
""An immediate action is to ensure there is equipment to monitor the fetal heart electronically permanently available in the obstetric theatre."
"There was concern that some medical staff did not follow infection prevention and control best practice being seen in theatre scrubs wearing jewellery, wrist watches and corduroy clogs."
"no local induction e.g. junior and middle grade medical staff who, for instance demonstrated a complete lack of knowledge of the location of the adult resuscitation equipment. When this was reported to a member of the senior management team they explained the resuscitation trolleys are kept in clearly marked bays. This was not the case at FGH."
All in the monitor report that there is no sign of yet in the Gazette.
Skeptical
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11:16am Fri 10 Feb 12
rect.gov.uk/petition
s/29317
An opportunity to protest....
Skeptical says...
6:28pm Mon 6 Feb 12
"the Review identified that there is significant risk to mothers and babies which the Trust has not identified and therefore had not managed"
"the Review identified 119 risks relating to maternity and its interface with pediatrics, or which 66 are red, indicating they are considered high risk"
“there is a continued lack of incident reporting in obstetrics, which had been an area of intense scrutiny for some time”
“as a result of the reports received relating to maternity services and outpatients, it is clear that the extent of risk that the Trust has failed to identify is greater that that originally identified in October 2011”
“Action recommended in respect of pediatric services remain outstanding two years after being made to the trust”
“the Diagnostic Review of maternity services found that senior nurses and managers had failed to provide adequate contingency for known staffing issues in the FGH neonatal unit”
It goes on and on and on………. “in an email to Monitor dated 1 December 2011, the Trust Board states that it had implemented in full the 12 actions required by Monitor in its letter of 17 November 2011 to address immediate patient safety concerns in maternity and pediatric. A subsequent independent inspection by the Diagnostic Team on 7 December 2011 of actions taken in relation to Monitors letter found that actions had not been implemented in full and that Monitor had not been provided with appropriate and justifiable assurance by the Trust”