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Hospital probe blast for Trust

17th July 2013 - For the Record

In response to The Dudley Group’s statement following Jeremy Hunt’s address to Parliament, the Dudley News asked the following questions:

1) What is the Trust doing about nurse staffing levels?

2) What is the Trust doing about patient complaints?

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Our response to the Keogh Review

16th July 2013 - For the Record

The Trust has welcomed the review into the quality of care that we provide and we are pleased to report that we have not been placed in special measures and that Monitor, the independent regulator for foundations trusts, has confidence in me and my management team to deliver the review’s recommendations...

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Scandal of NHS deaths at weekends

14th July 2013 - For the Record

The Sunday Times has looked at a Dr Foster Intelligence national survey about the number of doctors on duty at the weekend at hospital trusts in the country, specifically at 11am on Sunday June 17th 2013.

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Trust is ‘back on track’ for target

19th June 2013 - For the Record

The Stourbridge News requested information about our Accident and Emergency Department waiting times and 62 day cancer (urgent GP referral) times following the decision by Monitor to change our risk rating from Green to Amber-Red.

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Hospital’s risk rating worsens after targets missed

12th June 2013 - For the Record

Heather Large from the Express and Star has seen the following on Monitor’s website:

“The governance risk rating for this foundation trust was amended from GREEN to AMBER-RED in May 2013 due the trust's breach of the 62 day Cancer (Urgent GP referral target) and A&E maximum 4 hour waiting time target in Q4 2012/13.”