{"id":46224,"date":"2014-08-08T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d20e7665a28478ca6b52d2bb3cbd9fce"},"modified":"2014-08-08T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T14:09:00","slug":"news-story-patients-benefit-from-improved-performance-at-foundation-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=46224","title":{"rendered":"News story: Patients benefit from improved performance at foundation trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The trust has made significant improvements in its infection control processes, and has made changes to its senior team with the appointment of a new director of nursing and interim medical director.<\/p>\n<p>The health sector regulator stepped in last October because the trust was struggling to cut the number of C. difficile infections picked up by patients. <\/p>\n<p>As a result of the progress made by the trust, Monitor has ended its formal regulatory action but will continue to scrutinise the trust\u2019s performance, particularly in <abbr title=\"accident and emergency department\">A&amp;E<\/abbr> where some patients are waiting too long.<\/p>\n<p>Frances Shattock, Regional Director at Monitor, said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s good news for patients in the Aintree area that the trust has succeeded in reducing the number of cases of C. difficile at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The trust has also taken significant steps to improve the way it is run, so we have ended our formal regulatory action.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The regulator will closely scrutinise <abbr title=\"accident and emergency department\">A&amp;E<\/abbr> performance over the coming months and may take further action if necessary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer patients at Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are developing infections and the organisation has improved the way it is run, following action taken by Monitor.<\/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\/46224"}],"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=46224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}