Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust – Page 14
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NewsCarnall calls for service reconfigurations to be accelerated
The head of NHS London has warned the government risks “stifling the ambition” of clinical commissioning groups if it does not find a way to speed up service reconfigurations.
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NewsEpsom and St Helier may be next for failure regime after merger talks fail
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust may be the next to enter the failure regime, HSJ has learned.
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NewsUPDATED: Hunt advised to break up South London Healthcare
The trust special administrator this morning issued his draft report into the first organisation to face the NHS’s failure regime, recommending the trust is broken up.
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NewsPlans for South London Healthcare's future to be unveiled
Plans to solve the financial problems at an NHS trust which was taken over by an administrator for being on the brink of bankruptcy are to be outlined today.
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HSJ LocalSHA halts hospital takeover
NHS London has halted the takeover of a district general hospital by a foundation trust in a neighbouring strategic health authority.
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CommentReaders' letters – 25 October 2012
Bexley Council responds to our claim that social care in the borough is ‘failing’; and how a service has made it easier for patients to get repeat prescriptions
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NewsMajor reconfiguration delayed by neighbouring PCT
Plans for a major reconfiguration of services in London have been halted after a neighbouring primary care trust said it wanted to become more involved in the process.
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NewsNHS predicts 25pc lower surplus for 2012-13
Strategic health authorities and primary care trusts are predicting a fall in their combined surplus of 25 per cent this financial year.
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HSJ Local
Failure regime trust interests Dartford and Gravesham
STRUCTURE: Dartford and Gravesham Trust is one of 39 organisations that have expressed an interest in taking over part of troubled South London Healthcare Trust.
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HSJ Local
EKH’s hat in the ring for South London Healthcare Trust
STRUCTURE: East Kent Hospitals Foundation Trust is one of 39 organisations that have expressed an interest in taking over part of troubled South London Healthcare Trust.
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NewsExclusive: South London Healthcare Trust's suitors revealed
Details have emerged of the plans of many of the 39 bodies that have written to South London Healthcare Trust’s special administrator to express an interest in running trust services.
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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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HSJ Local
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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HSJ Local
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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HSJ Local
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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HSJ Local
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.