Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust – Page 14
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HSJ Local
Cladding to be removed from new cancer centre following fire tests
One of the most prestigious teaching hospital trusts in London has said it will need to remove cladding from its new cancer centre after fire safety checks following the Grenfell fire disaster.
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News
Lord Darzi weighs in to 'utterly astonishing' specialist trust row
Professor Lord Ara Darzi has weighed into the row over the future of specialist services in England.
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News
Exclusive: 18 'high calibre' leads appointed to major NHS improvement programme
Leading consultants have been appointed to lead 14 national reviews aimed at improving efficiency and reducing unwarranted variation in NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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Comment
The NHS financial regime: cleverly flexible or horribly messy?
The NHS payments and incentives system is constantly evolving. Richard Murray looks at a system that is attempting to manage deficits and, at the same time, introduce new models of care and ways to pay for them.
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HSJ Local
Specialist hospital could relocate to teaching trust site
A specialist hospital threatened with losing services by a national shake-up of heart surgery services could move to a site owned by another London trust.
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STP dilutes plan to centralise elective work
An STP in the capital has dropped plans to centralise elective orthopaedic work at two sites.
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HSJ Local
NHS England accused of using 'misleading' data for heart surgery closures
NHS England has been accused of lacking transparency and using “inaccurate or misleading” data in its planning for the potential closure of three heart surgery units.
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2017: Infection Prevention Control in Patient Safety
Royal Brompton and Harefield Foundation Trust: Reducing Readmissions for Surgical Site Infection Together With Patients: Photo at Discharge Schem
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Comment
Recognise the value of people powered health initiatives
It’s high time we reduce the demand on mainstream health services by involving the local people
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News
HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards 2017: Improving the Value of Surgical Services
Somerset Spinal Surgical Service and Improvement Network at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust: An Enhanced Recovery Programme for Elective Spinal Surgery To Improve Quality of Care for Patients and Decrease Length of Stay
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News
HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards 2017: Improving the Value of Diagnostic Services
Homerton University Foundation Trust: Locomotor Service
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards 2017: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust: Patients as Catalysts: improving information on uterine fibroids
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards 2017: Communication
Northampton General Hospital Trust: Nurse Bank Recruitment Campaign
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News
Two-thirds of London trusts lack own procurement director
Only around a third of NHS trusts in London have their own permanent head of procurement or procurement director, HSJ research reveals.
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HSJ Local
'Outstanding' hospital granted semi-autonomy from trust
Evelina London will be in control of its own £185m budget New 18-bed cardiac ward and a 10-bed high dependency unit to open in January 2018 Extension will make the hospital “significantly bigger than twice the size” it is now A top teaching trust has granted semi-autonomy to ...
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HSJ Local
Cancer network to move treatment into the community
Non-surgical cancer treatment to be shifted into community settings Cancer network is waiting to hear if it has been granted £6.5m from NHS England Redesigned clinical pathways have so far yielded mixed results Three London trusts have agreed to redesign their cancer services to try to improve patient ...
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News
GMC warns against 'unreasonable withdrawal' over IR35
The General Medical Council has warned that any locum doctors engaging in “unreasonable withdrawal” from work could exacerbate pressure on health services and potentially risk patient safety.
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News
NHS in 'Mexican standoff' with locums due to new tax rules
New tax regulations for off-payroll staff come into force on Thursday Some locums and temporary staff are refusing to work at NHS trusts Trusts face “Hobson’s choice” over locums’ pay demands, says finance director Medical director says NHS “must hold the line” on pay cap The NHS is ...
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HSJ Local
New drive to make sure trust staff sleep on night shifts
All 15,000 staff at Guys and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust encouraged to take their breaks Campaign based on research evidence link to patient harm from fatigue Staff can benefit from a 20 minute nap at night and reduce clinical errors All 15,000 staff at one of the country’s ...
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HSJ Local
Original special measures trust exits regime
Medway FT now rated requires improvement, and good for being caring, effective and well led CQC praises “strong leadership and clear communication” Improvements need to be made in urgent and emergency services, surgery and critical care A hospital which was previously ranked as one of the worst in ...