Sentence examples for achieved foundation from inspiring English sources

In 2004 the trust achieved foundation status, which allows greater freedom to manage finances.

The losses of £456.8m were recorded by 26 of the 102 hospital trusts that have not achieved foundation trust status.

At the end of September, 139 NHS trusts, including those who ran ambulance and mental health services as well as hospitals, had achieved foundation trust status.

Once international medical graduates have achieved foundation competences (or have demonstrated equivalence), they are eligible to apply for general practice specialist training through the National Recruitment Office.

The Cistercians, originating from the village of Cîteaux, near Dijon in eastern France, achieved two important Scottish foundations, at Melrose (1136) and Dundrennan (1142), and the Tironensians, named after the location of the mother abbey Tiron Abbey near Chartres in France, achieved foundations at Selkirk, then Kelso, Arbroath, Lindores and Kilwinning.

But the trust was too focused on its finances and trying to achieve foundation status instead of caring for patients.

Next April , 10-12hospitals among those already achieving the three-star score on the hospital rating system look set to achieve foundation status.

The commission concluded that the trust's board was more focused on finance, targets and achieving foundation trust status, as well as its desire to save £10m.

A further significant finding by the Francis inquiry was the clear link between the drive to achieving foundation trust status and a subordination of clinical concerns.

There is also something very wrong when trusts are achieving foundation status by putting the health of their budgets over the care of their patients as detailed in the accounts of trust board meetings.

It reports that while hospital board members said quality of care had always been a top priority, many staff said the trust's priorities had been "finance and achieving foundation trust status".