{"id":44614,"date":"2014-07-04T10:59:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T10:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9e33024a77da38afeacd8e3830e8ab41"},"modified":"2014-07-04T10:59:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T10:59:40","slug":"news-story-the-dudley-group-nhs-foundation-trust-monitor-launches-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=44614","title":{"rendered":"News story: The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust: Monitor launches investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust consistently failed to meet a national target of seeing 95% of patients within 4 hours at <abbr title=\"accident and emergency\">A&amp;E<\/abbr>. <\/p>\n<p>The trust has not met this target in 4 of the last 5 financial quarters. <\/p>\n<p>Monitor also has concerns about the deterioration in financial performance at the trust and this will also be looked at during the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>The Dudley Group provides services throughout the Black Country from three hospitals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley<\/li>\n<li>Guest Outpatient Centre in Dudley<\/li>\n<li>Corbett Outpatient Centre in Stourbridge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No decision has been taken about whether further regulatory action is required and an announcement about the outcome of the investigation will be made in due course.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Cayley, Regional Director at Monitor said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trust is taking too long to see patients in <abbr title=\"accident and emergency\">A&amp;E<\/abbr>. We\u2019re also concerned about its financial position. We\u2019re launching an investigation to get to the bottom of these issues and understand whether or not we need to step in.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monitor launched its investigation due to the trust&#8217;s performance against the national accident and emergency waiting time target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}