All KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FT articles – Page 23
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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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News
Joint pathology venture fairly awarded, CCP decides
A foundation trust did not breach competition principles in selecting a public/private partnership for its pathology services, the NHS market regulator has found.
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News
Ambulance trust announces 890 post cuts
London Ambulance Service Trust has said it expects to cut 890 posts over the next five years to save £53m.
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HSJ Local
King's College Hospital makes HCAIs top priority for 2011-12
PERFORMANCE: The south London acute had reported 16 MRSA bacteraemias at the end of month 11, nearly double its target of eight.
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HSJ Local
Queen Mary's closures knock on to neighbouring trusts
PERFORMANCE: The closure of maternity and accident and emergency services at Queen Mary’s Sidcup has led to services elsewhere being closed due to demand outstripping capacity.
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News
Competition panel to rule on pathology deal
A foundation trust’s £300m deal with another trust and a private company to outsource pathology services has been challenged under procurement rules.
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HSJ Local
NHS Southwark at risk from £13.7m provider over-spends
FINANCE: The primary care trust could see year-end over-spends totalling £13.7m from its two main providers
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HSJ Local
King's College Hospital FT brings in extra cleaners after performance 'concern'
PERFORMANCE: The south London acute reported it had hired an extra cleaning contractor for high risk areas after “concern” about existing contractors Medirest.
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HSJ Local
Chelsea and Westminster FT has second best ambulance handover time in London
PERFORMANCE: The central London hospital had an average patient handover time between ambulance and trust of 11.8 minutes at the end of last year.
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HSJ Local
NHS Lewisham predicting £8.8m overspend with principal providers by year-end
FINANCE: The south-east London primary care trust’s most recent finance papers showed it was £6.6m overspent by December with its three main acute providers, with another £2.2m “likely” by the end of the year.
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HSJ Local
King's College Hospital Foundation Trust A&E overperforming bar one of its cluster PCTs
FINANCE: Of the six primary care trusts in its sector only NHS Southwark didn’t see an overperformance for A&E from the south London trust.
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HSJ Local
King's College Hospital Foundation Trust misses MRSA target for 2010-11
PERFORMANCE: The south London acute trust has overshot its target threshold for the year by more than half.
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News
Midlands trusts plan joint pathology service
The 2008 Lord Carter of Coles review of NHS pathology services was the trigger for a steady reconfiguration of the market and consolidation of providers.
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News
Imperial recruits PCT chief in integrated care drive
Imperial College Healthcare Trust has hired a primary care trust chief executive to lead its work to become an integrated healthcare organisation.
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News
Risk linked to surgery volume
Mortality rates can be up to three times higher for a common operations at smaller, low volume acute trusts than at their larger neighbours in the same region, research published by NHS London suggests.
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Comment
Secrets, buckets and a princely opinion
After the very public spat between Andy Burnham, Andrew Lansley and Norman Lamb over the future of social care funding, and the will-they-won’t-they running commentary on which of them would attend a conference on the issue last Friday, the press were shut out of the event itself.
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HSJ Knowledge
Transforming community services for people with long term conditions
Community healthcare is widening the focus from just a patient’s condition to their whole life, says Stuart Shepherd
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News
Trusts fail to keep up pace on stroke targets
Fewer than 40 per cent of acute and specialist trusts are achieving the required standards of stroke care.
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News
Organ transplant ban for foreign private patients
New rules could see foreign patients prevented from having organ transplants in the UK as private patients.
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News
Health partnership aims to put nursing at its ‘heart’
The King’s Health Partners academic health science centre has outlined how nursing and midwifery will be “at the heart” of its work.