{"id":56628,"date":"2015-05-01T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d6994dd046b4260db8466ee27bee26fa"},"modified":"2015-05-01T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T09:00:13","slug":"news-story-kettering-hospital-to-improve-ae-service-and-finances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=56628","title":{"rendered":"News story: Kettering Hospital to improve A&amp;E service and finances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>As a result, Kettering will now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>create and implement a realistic and robust short-term financial recovery plan<\/li>\n<li>develop and effectively deliver a long-term strategic plan<\/li>\n<li>update its emergency care action plan to ensure closer working with other local health and social care organisations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These legally binding steps follow on from previous action by the health regulator at Kettering following concerns about the organisation of its <abbr title=\"accident and emergency\">A&amp;E<\/abbr> service, long-term finances and performance of its previous leadership.<\/p>\n<p>While Kettering has made significant progress in improving its <abbr title=\"accident and emergency\">A&amp;E<\/abbr> service, it is still failing to consistently meet the national target of treating 95% of <abbr title=\"accident and emergency\">A&amp;E<\/abbr> patients within 4 hours. <\/p>\n<p>Significant progress has also been made by Kettering\u2019s new leadership in becoming compliant with all Health &amp; Safety Executive and local fire authority guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Monitor will continue to scrutinise the trust\u2019s progress in making these improvements.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has agreed steps with Monitor to improve its financial sustainability and reduce waiting time for A&amp;E patients.<\/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\/56628"}],"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=56628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}