Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust – Page 14
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: the future of South London Healthcare Trust
What happens next for South London Healthcare Trust - the first to be placed in the failure regime?
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NewsForced mergers create larger failures - Corrigan
The government should not force underperforming hospitals to merge together because such strategies simply create larger failing NHS organisations, a report suggests.
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Growing gap between rich and poor trusts
An audit of NHS organisations’ 2011-12 accounts has found a widening gap between the trusts with healthy finances and those that are struggling.
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Lewisham Healthcare 'asked to make significant alterations' to financial plan
FINANCE: NHS London asked Lewisham Healthcare Trust to make “significant alterations” to its long-term financial modelling in July, board papers reveal.
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Lewisham Healthcare ups loan application to £12m
FINANCE: Lewisham Healthcare Trust has increased the amount of working capital loan it is seeking from the Department of Health from £5m to £12m, board papers reveal.
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Claims against Lewisham Healthcare double
PERFORMANCE: The number of legal claims made against Lewisham Healthcare Trust in the last quarter was nearly double the average over previous years, a report reveals.
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Lewisham Healthcare's FT bid delayed
STRUCTURE: A report to the board of Lewisham Healthcare Trust said that the trust’s foundation trust application would now be discussed at the Department of Health’s October technical committee meetings, which would cause a “three month delay to either April or May 2013”.
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CommentNew secretary of state faces a bulging in-tray
Mike Birtwistle on why Hunt will be unable to keep health out of the news
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NewsConcern about service change delay as Hunt replaces Lansley
Andrew Lansley has been sacked as health secretary and replaced by Jeremy Hunt, sparking concern about delays to critical NHS service change plans.
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SHA agrees extra £10m for South London Healthcare Trust in 'transition year'
FINANCE: NHS London has agreed to release £10m it had topsliced from the south east London primary care trusts to bail out South London Healthcare Trust in a “transition year”.
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Lewisham hospital gets £2.2m for 'sustainable maternity service'
FINANCE: NHS London granted a request from NHS South East London for £2.2m of its top-sliced funding to pay for “the delivery of a sustainable maternity service” and other “key service developments”, a Freedom of Information Act request reveals.
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NewsExclusive: NHS or private expressions of interest sought to run 'failing' trust
The special administrator for the first hospital to be subjected to the failure regime has invited expressions of interest from the NHS and private sector to take over all or part of the organisation.
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Lewisham Healthcare Trust tenders for taxi services
COMMERCIAL: Lewisham Healthcare Trust has issued a tender notice for a taxi service for patients and staff, courier service for parcels and a collection and delivery of pathology specimens service.
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NewsDH pipeline tsar appointed special administrator at failure regime trust
Matthew Kershaw has today been confirmed as trust special administrator at South London Healthcare Trust.
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NewsTrusts receive £1 billion bailouts since 2006
Struggling NHS trusts have received more than £1 billion in bailout funds in six years, figures show.
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NewsMedia Watch: Lansley's failure regime process
Last week was a big one for hospital news in the national papers, with a trust finding itself declared “bankrupt” for the first time.
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NewsRevealed: DH warnings to pipeline laggards
Delays and failure revealed in warning letters sent after trusts fall behind in attempts to achieve foundation trust status.
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Lewisham Healthcare Trust published safety thermometer results
PERFORMANCE: The results for the south east London acute trust include a ward-by-ward breakdown of what percentage of patients were given a VTE (Venous Thromboembolism) assessment.
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NewsGovernment action on South London Healthcare a 'signal of intent'
The government has been praised for beginning to “grasp the nettle” on downgrading hospital services in troubled health economies.
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South London ordered to re-submit 2012-13 plan that forecast a £65m-plus deficit
FINANCE: South London Healthcare Trust submitted an initial financial plan for 2012-13 that would have seen it more than £65m in the red.