All EPSOM AND ST HELIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST articles – Page 11
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HSJ Local
Super merger plans let down by £116m PFI shortfall
STRUCTURE: A planned merger that would create England’s largest NHS trust would require £116m of support in its first year.
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News
Exclusive: fifth acute trust says it is considering private franchise management
A fifth hospital trust has said it will consider private franchise management.
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Comment
Will Lansley be red-faced after rubber-stamped reconfiguration in London?
By the time you read this there may have been news on a most contentious reconfiguration in the capital – namely whether the health secretary has found a way to rubber-stamp the downgrading of Chase Farm without losing face (which he has, just about - ed.).
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Exclusive: 500 avoidable deaths a year in London due to understaffing
There are more than 500 avoidable deaths a year in emergency care each year in London, a report obtained exclusively by HSJ reveals.
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HSJ Local
Epsom and St Helier announces merger criteria
STRUCTURE: The trust has announced criteria for organisations bidding to merge with either of its two hospitals.
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Health minister calls for pause to 'reckless' reconfiguration of his local trust
Health minister Paul Burstow has said services could be put “at risk” by a hospital merger proposed near his constituency on the Surrey and London border.
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HSJ Local
Nicholson says region's FT pipeline risks going backwards
STRUCTURE: Sir David Nicholson has written to the board of a strategic health authority saying “there is a real danger that by the end of 2011-12 many of these [trusts in the pipeline] will be a position where their ability to achieve FT by 2014 will have worsened”.
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Comment
London trusts encouraged by delayed 'drop dead' date for FT status
So what does the slackening off of the pressure behind the foundation trust pipeline mean for London, the most stubborn of regions in resisting an all-FT health service?
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HSJ Local
Acute trust announces its potential merger partners
STRUCTURE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospital Trust on the Surrey/London border has announced Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals Foundation Trust and the Royal Surrey County Hospital FT are interested in merging with Epsom Hospital, with St George’s Healthcare Trust interested in St Helier Hospital.
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HSJ Local
Fourteen London trusts with workforce concerns, says SHA report
WORKFORCE: The latest London Operational Health Intelligence Group report shows issues at 14 trusts including ratio of bank to permanent staff, skill mix and sick days.
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HSJ Local
Cluster considering centralising pathology services across five PCTs
STRUCTURE: The south west London primary care trust cluster is looking to centralise the procurement of pathology services as part of a wider review of care.
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HSJ Local
Continued under-performance on ambulance handover times at London A&Es
PERFORMANCE: A strategic health authority report has revealed continued under-performance on ambulance handover times at the capital’s accident and emergency departments.
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HSJ Local
SW London cluster considers hospital pathology and pharmacy consolidation
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust cluster has launched a clinically-led review of services across the health economy and said consolidation options were being looked at across its acute trusts.
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HSJ Local
Epsom and St Helier launches plans to save £18.7m this year
WORKFORCE: Epsom and St Helier has announced it needs to save £18.7m by March 2012 to help close the gap between income and expenditure.
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HSJ Local
London's acute trusts achieving 82 per cent of their CIPs in Feb
FINANCE: A document submitted to NHS London’s delivery group in April itemises each trust against its savings target and found a capital-wide variance of £69m against plan - some trusts achieving less than half their target.
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Potential partners for Epsom and St Helier will be invited to bid at end of June
STRUCTURE: Potential bidders interested in “partnering” with Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust will be invited to tender on 28 June.
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HSJ Local
Hospital chief executive steps down after board delays FT application
STRUCTURE: A London hospital trust chief executive has stepped down, saying the trust board’s decision to delay its foundation application “has led me to consider my position”.
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HSJ Local
Confidential report sets out quality issues for every provider in the region
PERFORMANCE: A confidential report commissioned by NHS London has listed the strategic health authority’s quality concerns about the capital’s provider bodies.
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HSJ Local
Epsom and St Helier misses MRSA target
PERFORMANCE: The Surrey and London borders acute trust had 11 MRSA cases in 2010/11 against a target of seven.
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Smaller trusts forced to rethink FT plans
STRUCTURE: Several smaller trusts that could not confirm the date on which they will apply for foundation status had previously been confident of achieving it.