Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust – Page 5
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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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Comment
Reconfiguration threatening to derail London service level agreements
No sooner were service level agreements more or less signed off by London acutes and commissioners, than reconfiguration issues reared their head.
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HSJ Local
Sutton and Merton has largest QIPP saving plan in the SW London cluster
FINANCE: The primary care trust has a savings target of £23m for 2011-12, compared to the sector’s total of £64.5m
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Croydon Health Services cancer referrals measure down on last year
PERFORMANCE: The acute and community services provider saw a fall of nearly 10 per cent on its performance against the target for two-week maximum wait for urgent suspected cancer referrals from GP to first outpatient appointment.
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HSJ Local
NHS Hounslow predicting a fall in access to GP services
PERFORMANCE: The west London primary care trust’s performance report anticipated the percentage of patients able to see their GP within 48 hours would fall by 5.5 per cent.
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NHS Richmond agrees year-end settlements with two key providers
FINANCE: The south west London primary care trust has agreed a year-end settlement plan with Kingston and West Middlesex University Hospitals and is “finalising” a similar deal with St George’s.
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HSJ Local
Barking and other London trusts fall short of savings targets
FINANCE: The capital’s trusts are likely to miss their savings targets due to slipping cost improvement plans and overperformance in the acute sector, NHS London has said.
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HSJ Local
'Concerns' over quality monitoring meetings with NHS Hounslow cluster
PERFORMANCE: Minutes of a board meeting at West Middlesex University Hospital said chief executive Jacqueline Docherty noted “a number of staff from Hounslow [had been] appointed to senior positions” in the cluster and “advised the board there are concerns that the current quality monitoring meetings are not as effective as ...
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HSJ Local
Future of West Middlesex University Hospital to be discussed in coming weeks
STRUCTURE: The south west London hospital trust said an extraordinary trust board meeting will be held “in private in mid March to determine the way forward” to foundation trust status.
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HSJ Local
NHS Hillingdon still looking for £15.7m in savings for 2011-12
FINANCE: The primary care trust’s finance paper said it had identified £11.5m in savings but still had work to do to identify a way to its £27.2m target.
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HSJ Local
Royal Marsden's radiotherapy bill disputed by commissioner
FINANCE: NHS Sutton and Merton is disputing over-performance for radiography by the foundation trust, and has said chemotherapy has also seen more activity than planned.
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HSJ Local
NHS Sutton & Merton is back in balance following an SHA bail-out
FINANCE: NHS London has given the primary care trust a total bail-out worth £21.7m this year.
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HSJ Local
NHS Barnet among seven London PCTs due to miss DH deadline for shutting outmoded learning disability facilities
PERFORMANCE: Seven London primary care trusts have missed a government deadline for closing down their learning disability campuses, new documents reveal.
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News
New chair designate for super-cluster appointed
A chair designate has been appointed for one of the largest primary care trust clusters in the country.
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Comment
Transparency in London reveals hive of activity
Are the GPs in south-west London the most proactive in the capital?
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HSJ Local
NHS Richmond & Twickenham cluster predicting bigger overspend after pessimistic assessment of acute challenges
FINANCE: The south-west London primary care trust’s minutes record the five-PCT sector anticipating having to go into its reserve if the £4m in acute sector challenges saved only £2.7m.
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HSJ Local
South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust has not engaged with GPs sufficiently on its FT bid, say commissioners
STRUCTURE: The mental health organisation has been told by GPs in south-west London they cannot yet give their support to its foundation trust bid.
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HSJ Local
St George's Healthcare Trust misses four-hour A&E target
PERFORMANCE: The south London acute achieved 96.99 per cent in September against the target of 98 per cent, a document published by NHS Richmond and Twickenhan reports.
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News
New chief executive for integrated care organisation
A new chief executive has been announced for a London integrated care organisation.
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HSJ Local
South west London cluster negotiates below-tariff prices for urgent admissions
FINANCE: Commissioners in London plan to shave millions off what they pay for urgent care with a package of measures including locally-negotiated below-tariff prices.