University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust needs major overhaul to meet demands
Last updated at 14:58, Wednesday, 08 February 2012
A HOSPITAL trust board needs a major overhaul if it is to meet regulator’s demands.
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A governance review into the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust highlighted a host of problems with management’s day-to-day running of the organisation.
Among those identified were a lack of risk management culture, an inadequate level of challenge scrutiny and debate in respect of performance and risk and weak clinical leadership caused by poorly defined roles.
The board came under further fire for approaching improving services in an ‘ad hoc’ and ‘reactive’ manner.
Decision-making, including those relating to out-of-hours rotas within maternity and paediatrics at FGH, was found to be ‘drawn out’.
The trust was also criticised for failing to carry out adequate risk assessments before putting cost-saving measures in place.
Monitor has now given the UHMBT a number of recommendations the trust must implement to bring it up to standard.
As well as appointing top healthcare professional Sir David Henshaw as an interim chairman, It has demanded the trust appoints a turnaround director, to be agreed with Monitor, to develop and deliver an effective recovery plan.
UHMBT will also have to create a programme management office to support the new director in delivering the recovery plan and hire an interim chief operating officer to run the day to day activities of the trust across all its hospital sites.
First published at 14:36, Wednesday, 08 February 2012
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My partner gave birth on Sunday and I must say everything went fine.the midwives were fantastic,we had been going in and out for afew weeks before birth,mainly seeing Joan and she was excellent.really jolly and very helpful.even when I saw her after my partner gave birth she was dead chuffed for us,she even went out of her way to go and see my partner.Sonia was the lady that delivered and she was just as good,made us feel dead at ease and to her I will always be grateful.there was afew others that are really nice aswell.ino this article will make people warey but it's not the midwives,it's the people that run the place not giving them what they need.
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@ Gavin "One last thought how many of these managers have recognised qualifications in management?" ...I think that part of the problem here is that these managers do have business training, but lack the compassion associated with medical expertise. They believe that a hospital can be run like any other business, be it a railway or a double-glazing firm. It simply will not do to run people's health in that way. Covering the truth then paying out compensation to those few lucky enough to prove negligence cost NHS £15.7 billion for 2009-10 alone. Cover-ups & lies prevent improvement & perpetuate litigation. They are the tools of doorstep salesmen & cowboy builders, not carers. Sack the PR-minded business managers & let Doctors decide.
Posted by Russell Dunkeld on 10 February 2012 at 22:03