PERFORMANCE: Barts Health Trust has now started offering services with Cyberknife cancer technology.
A report to the board said: “The £2.5m system is capable of treating tumours anywhere in the body with sub-millimetre accuracy. Funded by the London Freemasons in partnership with Barts and The London Charity, the Cyberknife is one of only three in the NHS and will further enhance Barts’ reputation as one of Europe’s most advanced cancer centres.”
October 2012
Chief executives need to take responsiblity for “cyber hygiene”
Patients have claimed they have been left hanging on the telephone for hours after a dermatology service was transferred to a new provider.
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A London hospital’s maternity service has improved enough to shed its “inadequate” rating, after serious concerns were raised about it at an inspection late last year.
A major London trust had to cancel hundreds of MRI scans after ageing equipment stopped working, causing it to miss its two-week diagnostic target for the first time in 14 months.
London’s largest acute provider is to come out of quality special measures after four years in the regime.
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