All London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust articles – Page 14
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HSJ Local
PCT to fine acutes for failing to provide named consultant teams
FINANCE: NHS Brent and neighbour Harrow propose to charge their providers £20,000 for each month they fail to offer the choice of a named consultant led team, which was due to be introduced at the start of the month.
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HSJ Local
NHS Hillingdon to miss surplus target
FINANCE: NHS Hillingdon is £4.9m behind its financial plan for 2010-11, reporting a deficit of £1.2m in February.
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NewsChallenged hospitals funds used to bail out PCTs
Nearly 40 per cent of a £392m fund set up to pay off the historic debts of London’s financially challenged organisations has been used to bail out commissioners.
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HSJ Local
NW London Hospitals Trust behind target on major schemes savings plan
FINANCE: A report to the board said the acute trust had achieved less than half of the major savings schemes it had planned.
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News'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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HSJ Local
North West London Hospitals Trust struggles on emergency four-hour target
PERFORMANCE: An acute trust is under pressure to meet the four-hour A&E target after a six per cent rise in attendances
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NewsFlory 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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NewsTrusts 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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NewsTrust 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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NewsCCP to investigate PCTs 'restricting choice and competition'
The Co-operation and Competition Panel is to investigate complaints that primary care trusts are restricting choice and competition, and setting discriminatory contracts.
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NewsTrust 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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NewsTrusts 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.
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NewsRisk 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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NewsTreatment checklists cut deaths by 15pc
Treatment “checklists” have led to a 15 per cent reduction in patient deaths in three hospitals, research has shown.
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NewsNurse policing is to be ‘more proactive’
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is to be more “proactive” in its policing of poor nursing care, including carrying out inspections of trusts, the regulator’s new chief executive has told HSJ.
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NewsMost PCTs meet only ‘minimum requirements’ on resources use
The majority of primary care trusts are meeting only “minimum requirements” in their use of resources, the results of the Audit Commission’s annual test have shown.
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NewsLondon's acute trusts told to plan for fewer services
London’s hospital trusts are being told to plan their future in a significantly smaller acute sector - or have it dictated to them.
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NewsFinancial fallout for London trusts from medical school redundancies
Four London hospital trusts could be hit with a bigger bill for academic staff due to a massive savings drive at Imperial College faculty of medicine.
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HSJ KnowledgeSink or swim: how small hospitals survive competition
Small district general hospitals are often the heart of their communities but their survival is only assured by outmanoeuvring the big trusts. By Alison Moore