All London articles – Page 129
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North West London Hospitals and Ealing Hospital merger to cost £30.4m
STRUCTURE: The merger of North West London Hospitals Trust and Ealing Hospital Trust is to cost £30.4m, board papers reveal.
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NHS London exempts NHS Croydon from two per cent top-slice requirement
FINANCE: NHS London has approved NHS Croydon’s request that it be exempted from the two per cent top-slicing for all primary care trusts stipulated in the NHS Operating Framework.
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NHS Brent commissioning new trauma, medical oncology and orthopaedics outpatient services
COMMERCIAL: NHS Brent is commissioning new outpatient services in 11 service lines.
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OFT invites comment on proposed private cancer unit at Guy's and St Thomas'
COMMERCIAL: The Office of Fair Trading has issued an invitation to comment on the “anticipated acquisition by HCA International Limited of the lease of premises from Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Foundation Trust in order to install and operate a private patient unit in relation to cancer treatment and radiotherapy services”.
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University College London Hospitals will grow activity
FINANCE: University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust has said it plans to grow activity to match the efficiency assumptions built in to the reduction in tariff prices.
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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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NHS London approves £4.8m bailout of Bexley
FINANCE: NHS London has approved a £4.8m bailout of NHS Bexley this financial year to allow it to set a “realistic and suitable QIPP target”.
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Royal Marsden sees £12m shortfall from NHS patients
FINANCE: The Royal Marsden Foundation Trust has said NHS tariffs means it faces an underlying loss of £12m a year.
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Trust's response to patient who died in police custody ruled 'inadequate'
PERFORMANCE: The South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust, which provides mental health services in south London, has been criticised by a jury for its “inadequate” response to a patient who later died in police custody.
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Trust enters joint venture to market performance management software
COMMERCIAL: The south east London mental and community health services trust has entered a joint venture to market its medical performance management software.
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Cluster finds extra funding to tackle year-plus IVF waiters
PERFORMANCE: Minutes of NHS South West London’s performance committee said money would be made available to reduce the number of IVF patients waiting longer than a year at one of the hospitals serving the cluster.
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HealthWatch seeks 'assurance' over Harmoni out-of-hours service
PERFORMANCE: Minutes of the meeting of the Kingston Commissioning Committee said it had been told some record checks were being done by an administrator rather than a medic.
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Lambeth given £1m towards 'Neighbourhood Resource Centres'
FINANCE: NHS London gave £1m to the south London primary care trust for the “Norwood and Akerman business cases development costs - development of proposals for the Neighbourhood Resource Centres supported by a full business case”, a report said.
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SHA approves £1m admissions avoidance scheme for cluster
FINANCE: NHS London has approved NHS South East London’s application for an emergency readmissions avoidance scheme, funded from the primary care trust cluster’s 2 per cent annual top-slice.
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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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£5.4m to tackle waiting list backlog at King's
FINANCE: King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust was given £5.4m of its top-sliced 2 per cent funding back by NHS London to tackle a waiting list backlog at one of its main providers.
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NewsChild abuse risk at walk-in centres
“Significant and worrying gaps” in the way some NHS walk-in centres operate risks child abuse going undetected, a study obtained by HSJ has warned.
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Kingston scores poorly on controlling side effects of chemo in survey
PERFORMANCE: Kingston Hospital was in the bottom 20 per cent of trusts for a measure around chemotherapy in the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey.
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Royal Brompton anticipates using loan facility
FINANCE: The Royal Brompton and Harefield Foundation Trust anticipates that “pressure on its liquidity” will mean it may have to get commercial loans for some capital projects.
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South London and Maudsley predict defict in 2014-15
FINANCE: The South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust is predicting a deficit for 2014-15, its annual plan review reveals.