The Northern Trust became operational on 1 April 2007, following the Review of Public Administration. They were created from the merger of 19 former trusts. The Northern Trust was established following the merger of three former trusts - Causeway, Homefirst and United.
£7,393,566 The Cost of Clinical Negligence in The Northern Health & SOcial Care Trust 2007-20121/30/2013 Northern Health and Social Care Trust provides a broad range of health and social care services for people across the local council areas of Antrim, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Carrickfergus, Coleraine, Cookstown, Larne, Magherafelt, Moyle and Newtownabbey.
The Northern Trust became operational on 1 April 2007, following the Review of Public Administration. They were created from the merger of 19 former trusts. The Northern Trust was established following the merger of three former trusts - Causeway, Homefirst and United.
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Despite the salary bill of the Trusts costing £4,535,000 Save The Mid can reveal that on top of this Health Trusts claimed £121,706.61 on travel and subsistence. For more information on health trust and other health bodies expenses see:http://savethemid.weebly.com/1/post/2013/01/executive-health-board-memberssalaries-pensions-201112.html
Views of NHS changes from mainland UK - http://www.hospitaldr.co.uk/blogs/our-news/review-on-future-of-urgent-and-emergency-care-launched
A major review of urgent and emergency services has been launched by the NHS Commissioning Board to establish proposals for the best way to organise care in England. The review, led by Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh, will work with clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to develop a national framework offer to help them ensure high-quality, consistent standards of care across the country. Sir Bruce said: “The NHS is there for all of us and should offer appropriate, effective and rapid care whenever and wherever it is needed. “Treatments for many common conditions such as heart attacks and strokes have evolved considerably over the last decade and are now best treated in specialist centres. Yet we know people want their A&E nearby. “This makes me think we need to review the increasingly complex and fragmented system of urgent and emergency care, so that sick, anxious and often frightened people can get what they need when they need it.” The review comes as a number of hospital A&E departments are under threat of closure, provoking public outrage. The NHS Commissioning Board stresses that local commissioning will be at the heart of this review, which follows the Board’s commitment in its recent planning guidance. It aims to enable CCGs to shape services for the future and put in place arrangements that meet the needs of patients. It plans to publish emerging principles for consultation in the Spring. In its planning guidance, published late last year, the NHS Commissioning Board said it would review urgent and emergency care as part of plans for more seven-day services. As well as seven-day working, the review aims to help CCGs find the right balance between providing excellent clinical care in serious complex emergencies and maintaining or improving local access to services for less serious problems. It will set out the different levels and definitions of emergency care. These range from top-level trauma centres at major hospitals to local accident and emergency departments and facilities providing access to expert nurses and GPs for the treatment of more routine but urgent health problems. As well as looking at how emergency care is provided, the review will also assess transfer processes between these levels of emergency care. The NHS Commissioning Board also says it wants to improve public understanding of the best place to go for care. By helping the public to go to the right place first, both they - and those who have very serious illnesses and injuries - will be seen more quickly by specialist clinical teams with the right qualifications and facilities. It stresses that the pattern of urgent and emergency care, including the number and location of services, will continue to be de developed locally to meet the different needs of urban and rural communities. The review aims to provide a national framework so high quality, consistent standards are offered across the country. In future, planning reconfigurations should take account of the review’s conclusions, the emerging evidence and the national framework. The Foundation Trust Network recently published a briefing document summarising the results of their A&E 2012 benchmarking study. It found that the majority of trusts are losing money on their A&E services. It called on the Department of Health to re-examine the policy of paying for some emergency admissions at 30% of the standard tariff, and called on the risks and responsibility for avoiding emergency admissions should be more fairly shared between acute trusts and primary and community care. It also found that trusts with primary care or urgent care centres within their A&E departments have faster average treatment times. And trusts that use senior clinicians as part of a rapid assessment team have faster initial assessments for the most acute A&E patients Nearly half of all A&E attendances for older patients (75yrs+) end in admission. Multidisciplinary teams in A&E reduce admissions of elderly patients, and trusts have reduced reattendance rates by providing comprehensive information and follow up advice. Dr Clive Peedell, a clinical oncologist and co-leader of the National Health Action Party, said A&E closure was often the “death knell” for a hospital. He said: “Once you lose A&E, you lose all your acute admissions. It’s like dominoes. It’s a way to close a hospital. There seems to be a drive to close hospitals on an ad hoc and financially-driven basis. There’s a definite agenda to treat more people in the community - but the capacity isn’t there. “We welcome the review but it needs to be open to debate. It should not be a central diktat.” Mr Poots was speaking following the publication of the Deaths in Northern Ireland 2011 statistics report by NISRA, which showed a the total number of deaths has fallen to its lowest level ever. He said: “The report shows that people are living an average of six years longer (age 75.8) than they were 30 years ago and there has been a 40% increase in those aged over 75. “This is good news and to be welcomed, however it poses a major challenge for health and social care services in providing care in the future. As we need to plan for this change in the population demographic, so it is equally important that people aim to maintain a healthy lifestyle – and add life to years not just years to life.” However 3 months into the statistics in 2012 we are beginning to see an increase in deaths across all Health Trust Areas. Points Of Interest:
More localised death rates will be publish in due course Annual Accounts can be found on this link: http://savethemid.weebly.com/references-transforming-your-care-response.html BHSCT:
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What is a Pension Cash Equivalent Transfer Value/ Cash Equivalent Benefit statement? A CETV or CEB statement reflects the capital value of the pension benefits (i.e income and/or potential lump sum) that have been accrued to date, or which are in payment. With a money purchase scheme, the CETV is purely the transfer value of the funds that have accrued to date. The transfer value may be different to the actual fund values, depending on scheme penalties. The CETV of final salary schemes rarely reflects the true value of the accumulated pension rights. If the scheme is short of money, the transfer value may be reduced to reflect the underfunding position. This is a complex area and proper financial advice should be sought. 14. Cash Equivalent Transfer Values A Cash Equivalent Transfer Value (CETV) is the actuarially assessed capitalised value of the pension scheme benefits accrued by a member at a particular point in time. The benefits valued are the member’s accrued benefits and any contingent spouse’s pension payable from the scheme. A CETV is a payment made by a pension scheme or arrangement to secure pension benefits in another pension scheme or arrangement when the member leaves a scheme and chooses to transfer the benefits accrued in their former scheme. The pension figures shown relate to the benefits that the individual has accrued as a consequence of their total membership of the pension scheme, not just their service in a senior capacity to which disclosure applies. The CETV figures, and from 2003-04 the other pension details, include the value of any pension benefit in another scheme or arrangement which the individual has transferred to the CSP arrangements. They also include any additional pension benefit accrued to the member as a result of their purchasing additional years of pension service in the scheme at their own cost. CETVs are calculated in accordance with The Occupational Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) (Amendment) Regulations and do not take account of any actual or potential benefits resulting from Lifetime Allowance Tax which may be due when pension benefits are taken. The actuarial factors that are used in the CETV calculation were changed during 2011, due to changes in demographic assumptions. This means that the CETV in this year’s report for 31 March 2011 will not be the same as corresponding figure shown in last year’s report. 15. Real increase in CETV This reflects the increase in CETV effectively funded by the employer. It does not include the increase in accrued pension due to inflation, contributions paid by the employee (including the value of any benefits transferred from another pension scheme or arrangement) and uses common market valuation factors for the start and end of the period. |
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