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Sixth London hospital trust now predicting deficit
FINANCE: Whipps Cross University Hospital is now predicting a year-end deficit, alongside five other trusts, new documents reveal.
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NewsLansley identifies 20 'unsustainable' trusts
The government has identified 20 trusts whose “clinical and financial stability is at risk” because of “cash-flow shortages” and legacy debt.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow care bundling drives down mortality rates in pneumonia care
The North West London Hospitals Trust, implementing a care bundle approach, has reduced mortality rates for patients with pneumonia. Trish Winn and Sunder Chita explain how.
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Ealing Hospital's coding being reviewed after unusual activity rates
FINANCE: The west London hospital trust is £3m over contract with its commissioners, a report to the north-west London cluster reports.
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NewsExclusive: 500 avoidable deaths a year in London due to understaffing
There are more than 500 avoidable deaths a year in emergency care each year in London, a report obtained exclusively by HSJ reveals.
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London trust wide of the mark on waiting times
PERFORMANCE: More than half of patients seen at North Middlesex University Hospital Trust in June had waited more than 18 weeks for treatment.
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Performance notice issued over Caesarian rate at Ealing Hospital
PERFORMANCE: The west London acute hospital has been rapped by commissioners NHS North West London over its year-to-date Caesarian section percentage of 27.7.
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Ealing Hospital £2.6m over contract at the end of June
FINANCE: The west London acute trust reported an over-performance on contract of £2.6m at the end of June, £2.4m of it with principal commissioners NHS Ealing.
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SHA proposes 'no pathology service review, no bailout' policy for London trusts
FINANCE: Documents seen by HSJ reveal NHS London is proposing to make financial bail-outs conditional on trusts signing up to its plans to shake-up pathology.
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North West London Hospitals Trust to open more beds to cope with winter pressures
PERFORMANCE: North West London Hospitals Trust is reopening beds to cope with the winter pressures it is expecting.
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Hospital merger could see loss of A&E, report says
STRUCTURE: A proposed merger between Ealing Hospital and North West London Hospitals Trust could see one of their three A&E units closed.
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CommentReconfiguration pressures mounting in London
A report is sat on Andrew Lansley’s desk offering recommendations about the future of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield.
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HSJ Local
Northwick Park passes CQC check with minor concerns
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was meeting standards relating to dignity and nutrition, but with minor concerns in both, during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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NewsAspirant FTs to have debt 'restructured'
Aspirant foundation trusts with liquidity or debt problems could have their debt restructured, the Department of Health’s head of provider development has said.
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London trusts fail ambulance handover targets
PERFORMANCE: Ambulance handover times have deteriorated across the capital since the government relaxed accident and emergency targets last year, a report has said.
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North West London Hospitals delays merger case
STRUCTURE: The outline business case for a merger with Ealing Hospital and the provider arms of Brent, Harrow and Ealing Primary Care Trusts has been put back.
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Interim chief executive for London trust
WORKFORCE: North West London Hospitals Trust has brought in former St George’s chief executive David Astley in an interim capacity.
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Nicholson says region's FT pipeline risks going backwards
STRUCTURE: Sir David Nicholson has written to the board of a strategic health authority saying “there is a real danger that by the end of 2011-12 many of these [trusts in the pipeline] will be a position where their ability to achieve FT by 2014 will have worsened”.
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Bailout fund considerably less than available reserves, SHA confirms
FINANCE: NHS London directors confirmed at a board meeting the reserves allocated to the Challenged Trust Board for 2011-12 were £95.3m, while acute trusts have debts of more than £424m.