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Lewisham decision sparks fresh debate on future NHS
The announcement that accident and emergency and maternity services are to be downgraded at Lewisham Hospital has sparked a fresh round of debate of the future of the NHS.
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NewsHunt compromises on Lewisham Hospital downgrade
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a compromise solution to the downgrade of services at Lewisham Hospital.
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South London Healthcare Trust reports mixed sex accommodation breaches
PERFORMANCE: South London Healthcare Trust is one of the nine acute trusts in London to report mixed sex accommodation breaches at the last board meeting of NHS London.
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NewsA&E 'overstretched', says Labour
Hospital accident and emergency departments are overstretched and understaffed with patients forced to wait in ambulances just to gain admission, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has said.
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CommentHunt's call on South London will affect the whole NHS
The impact will go far beyond Lewisham Hospital
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NewsGrounds for legal action if hospital downgrade approved, critics claim
A judicial review is likely if health secretary Jeremy Hunt approves plans to downgrade Lewisham Hospital, HSJ has learnt.
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NewsAnalysed: The fate of Lewisham Hospital
This week’s HSJ Local Briefing looks at the south east London health economy, which is the first to be subject to the failure regime.
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HSJ Local25,000 march against 'insane' plan
More than 25,000 protesters on Saturday demanded that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt rejects “insane” proposals to close a hospital’s newly revamped A&E department.
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South London Healthcare Trust on course to miss Q4 A&E wait target
PERFORMANCE: South London Healthcare Trust is on course to miss the A&E four-hour wait target of 95 per cent for quarter four, a report reveals.
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Lewisham Healthcare Trust misses diagnostics targets
PERFORMANCE: Lewisham Healthcare Trust has missed the target for carrying out diagnostic tests in September and October, an NHS london report reveals.
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NewsNHS earmarks £300m to put hospitals through failure regime
Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority are planning a £300m joint contract to pay for failing trusts to go through the special administration regime.
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NewsHospital chief executive role for Matthew Kershaw
Matthew Kershaw, who has lead the failure regime process at South London Healthcare Trust, is to take up a chief executive post at a large teaching hospital in the Spring.
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Doctors attack health trust plan
Plans to dissolve a debt-ridden health trust which was on the brink of bankruptcy could have a “devastating” effect on a financially stable trust nearby, doctors have said.
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NewsA&E closure 'can't be justified'
A damning report which demands a debt-ridden NHS trust is broken up must not be used to justify closing essential hospital services, a senior Labour MP has said.
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NewsKershaw backs dissolution of South London Healthcare
South London Healthcare Trust should be dissolved, its special administrator recommended this morning.
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NewsFoundation trusts still lagging on savings targets in Q2
Regulator Monitor today urged foundation trusts to plan “sooner and more effectively” for future financial pressures, as its latest quarterly report showed the sector had made little progress in closing the gap between planned and actual savings.
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Special administrator bill hits £5m at South London Healthcare Trust
FINANCE: The unsustainable provider regime bill at South London Healthcare Trust has hit £5m, according to a health minister.
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Lewisham backs rally against closure of its A&E
STRUCTURE: Several thousand people marched on Saturday against plans to close the accident and emergency department at Lewisham Hospital in south London.
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NewsAnalysed: The London FT pipeline and its hotspots
HSJ Local Briefing is our in-depth analysis of key issues facing the NHS or major health economies. This week we examine the foundation trust pipeline before the capital’s strategic health authority disappears next year
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Lewisham Hospital better than average on coding
FINANCE: A report to the south east London primary care trust cluster said: “Lewisham Healthcare Trust with a clinical coding Healthcare Resource Grouping error rate of 7.2 per cent, was better than the national average.”