Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust – Page 19
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'GPs run the risk of alienating themselves from their colleagues'
As the BMA gears up for a crisis meeting to debate the Health Bill, the chair of its consultant and specialists committee voices his fears of a huge split between members - and a ‘seething cauldron’ of competing providers in the future.
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Tariff weighting could 'reduce' trust mergers - King's Fund
Paying a higher tariff rate to trusts with larger capital costs could reduce the need for hospital reconfigurations, a report from the King’s Fund has claimed.
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HSJ Local
Barking, Havering, and Redbridge hospitals rated red for ambulance handover
PERFORMANCE: Queen’s Hospital, Romford, and King George, Ilford, were both rated red for handover times.
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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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'Challenged' acute trusts abandon independent FT status plans
More than half of the Department of Health’s seven financially “challenged” trusts appear to have abandoned plans to become foundation trusts.
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SHA arbitrates after dispute between trust and NHS Greenwich PCT cluster
FINANCE: A primary care trust has seen the contract value of services with its local acute rise by £10m for the second half of the financial year after arbitration.
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HSJ Local
Lewisham Healthcare Trust behind on savings plan
FINANCE: The south London hospital trust was £1m behind plan at the end of November.
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HSJ Local
South London Healthcare predicted to hit A&E targets despite consecutive poor months
PERFORMANCE: South London Healthcare Trust is predicting it will meet its four-hour A&E target for 2010-11, despite missing it in November and December last year.
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Flory tells PCTs to give providers leeway over winter pressures
Commissioners have been urged to adjust their payments to hospital trusts struggling to deal with winter pressures on emergency care.
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Chief dismissed for 'seaside humour' wins tribunal
A former interim chief executive of an NHS trust was unfairly sacked for sending emails containing “seaside humour” just 15 days before he was due to be made redundant.
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Last of London's contentious reconfigurations set to be approved
The last of the capital’s contentious hospital reconfiguration plans is due to be approved by its strategic health authority next week.
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Trusts battle for right to absorb smaller non-FTs
Two London hospital trusts, one of which is struggling with a large private finance initiative, are competing to swallow up two smaller trusts.
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Trust in breach of six CQC standards
One of the Department of Health’s seven “financially challenged” trusts has been found in breach of standards in six separate areas by the Care Quality Commission.
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Five trusts now predicting year-end deficits
Four primary care trusts and one hospital trust who were predicting year-end surpluses in the first quarter of 2010-11 are now predicting deficits.
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Another reconfiguration passes Lansley's 'four tests'
One of the reconfigurations stopped under Andrew Lansley’s post-election moratorium on hospital closures has been approved by a strategic health authority.
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Trust plans closure of seven wards
A hospital trust plans to close the equivalent of seven wards to get back into financial balance.
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MP calls for NAO investigation into 'misguided' halting of reconfiguration plans
An MP has asked the National Audit Office to investigate health secretary Andrew Lansley’s decision to order a review of a reconfiguration consultation.
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NHS London volunteers external oversight in 'Lansley tests' over reconfiguration plans
NHS London could lose its responsibility for applying the four tests Andrew Lansley has ordered all hospital reconfiguration plans to meet.
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NHS London revives Queen Mary's Sidcup closure plans amid patient safety concerns
NHS London has recommended “temporarily” closing the accident and emergency and maternity units at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
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Trusts putting patients' lives at risk, claims AvMA
NHS hospitals are putting lives at risk by failing to comply with key alerts on patient safety, a report has said.