WORKFORCE: The east London hospital has seen a falling off of the amount it spends on agency and bank nursing staff.
Against a target of 3.5 per cent, the trust saw a spend on 4.11 per cent in March.
This decreased to an average of 1.75 per cent over April and May.
June 2011
WORKFORCE: Barts and the London Trust approved £461,000 in payments to staff made compulsorily redundant in 2010-11, its annual accounts show.
The Care Quality Commission found standards have dropped at a struggling emergency department where a nurse told inspectors: “We don’t want to release the ambulances because we know they will return with more patients.”
Suffolk and North East Essex shadow integrated care system has appointed senior local commissioning leader Ed Garratt as its executive lead.
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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