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CCG study threatens mental health reconfiguration
A major reconfiguration of mental health services could take place in south-west London after a report ordered by local clinical commissioning groups recommended the takeover of the area’s main provider, HSJ can reveal.
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Exclusive: Hospital trust announces it is seeking merger partner to make FT status
Barnet and Chase Farms Hospitals Trust has announced it is seeking a merger partner to become a foundation trust.
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Barnet and Chase Farm sets £21.7m savings target
FINANCE: The north London hospital trust has set a cost improvement programme target that is 6.4 per cent of its turnover, research by HSJ has revealed.
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NW London agrees £500m block contract with Imperial
FINANCE: NHS North West London has agreed more than half of Imperial’s income would be provided in a block contract rather than under payment by results.
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Imperial aims to claw its way out of deficit in 2012-13
FINANCE: The central London acute trust is looking to recover from their deficit position of £10.5m in 2011-12 over the course of this financial year.
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Hospitals 'see rise in ambulance attendances' since trialling NHS 111
PERFORMANCE: A report to Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust board said the organisation had seen a seven per cent increase in the number of ambulance attendances since the NHS 111 non-emergency phone number was trialled in the borough.
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Imperial College Healthcare Trust ends month 1 in deficit
FINANCE: The central London hospital tryst had a deficit in month one of £1.7m, against a plan of £238k.
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South West London mental health trust awaits report on CCG concerns
PERFORMANCE: A report to the board of South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust said the trust was awaiting a “definitive statement” from the clinical commissioning groups on what concerns they would like to see addressed before giving their support to the trust’s foundation trust application.
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Homerton shortlisted for award for work with homeless TB patients
PERFORMANCE: The east London acute trust has been nominated for an Andy Ludlow Homelessness award for its work with patients with no recourse to public funds.
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South West London anticipates losing £2.4m after QIPP negotiations
FINANCE: South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust has calculated it will lose £2.4m when commissioners disinvest by £7.9m.
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Kingston Hospital sees large increases in year-on-year activity
PERFORMANCE: The south west London acute trust saw large year-on-year rises in elective care, A&E and births, a report to the board revealed.
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Kingston Hospital aiming for £2.1m surplus and CIP of £10.9m
FINANCE: The south west London hospital trust is aiming for a significant cost improvement programme this year, with £900k of it left over from 2011-12.
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Lewisham Healthcare Trust published safety thermometer results
PERFORMANCE: The results for the south east London acute trust include a ward-by-ward breakdown of what percentage of patients were given a VTE (Venous Thromboembolism) assessment.
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Hillingdon Hospital faces 'challenges' on savings as activity continues to rise
FINANCE: The west London hospital trust “continues to face challenges in delivering the cost improvement programme (CIPs) and there was a significant variance against plan in April”, its board was told in May.
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New integrated provider on cards for London
Two councils and a community trust in London are to consider plans to integrate provision of health and social care services.
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Ex-NHS worker held in police payments investigation
WORKFORCE: A former NHS employee from west London has been arrested by police investigating claims that journalists bribed police officers and public officials.
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Departing Maudsley chief plans to develop Oxford AHSC
Stuart Bell, departing chief executive of the South London and Maudsley Mental Health Foundation Trust, has told HSJ he wants to help develop an academic health science centre in Oxford.
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Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals appoints new medical director
WORKFORCE: The troubled east London trust has appointed Mike Gill, from Newham University Hospital, as its new medical director.
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South London ordered to re-submit 2012-13 plan that forecast a £65m-plus deficit
FINANCE: South London Healthcare Trust submitted an initial financial plan for 2012-13 that would have seen it more than £65m in the red.
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Failure regime looms as trust faces bankruptcy
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has this evening begun the process of placing an NHS trust in administration for the first time, which would effectively declare it bankrupt.