All GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST articles – Page 27
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NewsRedesigned A&E departments to reduce violence
Accident and emergency departments could be redesigned to significantly reduce violence and aggression towards staff for as little as £60,000, a Department of Health commissioned study suggests.
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NewsFTs consider merger that would create largest trust
Three London foundation trusts are considering a merger that would create the single biggest trust, with a turnover of £1.9bn.
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NewsJudge rules cardiac review consultation unlawful
A High Court judge has quashed the national consultation into the reconfiguration of paediatric cardiac services, ruling it was conducted unlawfully.
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Three London FTs consider full merger
STRUCTURE: King’s College Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ and South London and Maudlsey Mental Health foundation trusts are considering a full merger, it has been revealed.
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Only four maternity units in London meet consultant labour ward requirements
WORKFORCE: A report from NHS London has outlined significant shortfalls in consultant presence in labour wards.
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London's hospital trusts set to miss waiting time targets
PERFORMANCE: London’s hospital sector is on track to miss its inpatient waiting time targets because trusts “took their foot off the accelerator” after being told the targets would be scrapped.
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NewsBristol trusts discuss £1bn merger
Two acute trusts in Bristol are in “ongoing discussions” about merging to create an organisation with a turnover close to £1bn.
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Commissioners urge Guy's and St Thomas' to increase maternity cover
PERFORMANCE: The south east London commissioning cluster has called on Guy’s and St Thomas’ to increase cover on its maternity wards.
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Guy's breaching private patient cap after twins procedure
FINANCE: The south London foundation trust reported that it had breached its private patient cap of 3.04 per cent this year.
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Guy's and St Thomas' expecting to exceed activity plans by £5.8m
FINANCE: The south London foundation trust’s finance report said the £987m-turnover organisation’s predicted over-performance had grown by £900,000 since the previous month.
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Royal Brompton & Harefield Trust judicial review to start this week
STRUCTURE: The central London specialist trust is due to start its judical review hearing in the High Court on Tuesday.
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NewsExclusive: top teaching hospitals under threat from tariff system
The payment by results tariff system could tip England’s elite teaching hospitals into deficit and damage the country’s medical research industry, their chief executives have warned.
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Primary care guru joins Guy's charity
WORKFORCE: Professor David Colin-Thomé, who was national clinical director for primary care for nine years, has become a trustee of the south London foundation trust’s charity.
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NewsExclusive: 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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London trust wide of the mark on waiting times
PERFORMANCE: More than half of patients seen at North Middlesex University Hospital Trust in June had waited more than 18 weeks for treatment.
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Channel islands shift cardiac business from London specialist hospital to Southampton
COMMERCIAL: The health authorities of Guernsey and Alderney are moving roughly £1.3m of specialist treatment from a London teaching hospital to a trust on the south coast.
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South London A&E performance running at winter peak levels in May and June
PERFORMANCE: The south east London cluster reported A&E performance as “extremely poor” at all of its main providers except Lewisham Hospital.
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CQC finds minor concerns on dignity at St Thomas’
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was meeting standards relating to dignity and nutrition during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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Royal Brompton wins right to take 'flawed' consultation process to a judicial review
STRUCTURE: The specialist heart and lung trust is believed to be the first NHS body to be granted permission to take another to a judicial review.
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A&E attendances up at Guy's and St Thomas'
PERFORMANCE: Figure for the first quarter of 2011 show attendances at A&E up on those for the same period in earlier years.