{"id":57603,"date":"2015-06-05T10:10:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T10:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=aea6086db9cf8767f56bbf78dc8c0ccf"},"modified":"2015-06-05T10:10:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T10:10:38","slug":"press-release-investigations-into-hospital-finances-widened-after-some-patients-wait-too-long-in-ae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=57603","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Investigations into hospital finances widened after some patients wait too long in A&amp;E"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Monitor, the health sector regulator, will now look into how well the trusts are run as well as scrutinising their finances. The trusts involved are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust<\/li>\n<li>Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The trusts, which serve patients in the Warrington, Halton and Wirral areas, have both repeatedly failed to meet the national targets for seeing 95% of patients in Accident and Emergency within 4 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator believes that local partners, such as commissioners and other NHS organisations, have a significant role to play in improving urgent care across the area and that the trusts may not be able to solve these problems alone.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Chandler, Regional Director at Monitor, said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We have decided to widen our investigations because some patients are waiting too long in <abbr title=\"accident and emergency department\">A&amp;E<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We now need to understand what the trusts have done, and are planning, to improve <abbr title=\"accident and emergency department\">A&amp;E<\/abbr> performance and how they will work with local partners to achieve this.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No decision has been taken in respect of either investigation, but Monitor will announce the outcome of each in due course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two investigations into the finances at hospitals in the North West of England are being widened because some patients are waiting too long in A&amp;E.<\/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\/57603"}],"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=57603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}