All London articles – Page 138
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London hospitals make plans for the Olympics
PERFORMANCE: Hospitals in London are considering reorganising surgery timetables, changing shift patterns and moving delivery times to accommodate the Olympics this summer.
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London FT boss resigns to lead neighbours' merger bid
WORKFORCE: David McVittie, chief executive of Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust, left his post last week and will now be leading the merger between North West London Hospitals and Ealing Hospital.
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Union attacks trust chair over 'football managers' approach to chief execs
WORKFORCE: Unison has criticised the “football managers approach to NHS management” at Croydon Health Services Trust.
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NewsExclusive: London bosses 'extremely concerned' over A&E
The head of NHS London has written to all the capital’s primary care trust cluster chiefs after becoming “extremely concerned” over accident and emergency performance, HSJ has learned.
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New Royal London Hospital opens
STRUCTURE: The new Royal London Hospital has opened its doors for the first time.
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HSJ LocalSecond CCG condemns health bill and 'bureaucratic' authorisation process
City and Hackney clinical commissioning group has become the second to urge the prime minister to drop the Health Bill.
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London GPs off the pace on exercise programmes
WORKFORCE: GPs in the capital are cynical about a major campaign to encourage physical activity in patients with long terms conditions, reflecting a wider lack of enthusiasm about exercise programmes, a study suggests.
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Finance director appointed to commissioning board
A strategic health authority’s finance director has been given the top finance post at the NHS Commissioning Board.
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Comment'Low priority treatments should not let commissioners cut corners'
Setting the wrong clinical priorities?
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CommentPermanent chief at deficit trust confirmed
Imperial College Healthcare Trust now has a permanent chief executive.
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Imperial 'not likely' to hit VTE target until October
PERFORMANCE: A report from NHS North West London said the acute trust was on track to miss the venous thromboembolism target until Q2 of 2012-13.
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Imperial blames blood culture techniques for failing MRSA target
PERFORMANCE: The west london hospital trust has reported 12 cases of MRSA this year against an “annual ceiling” of nine, cluster documents showed.
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Westminster GPs want community nursing in borough 'substantially changed'
COMMERCIAL: The commissioning intentions of Central London Health CCG regarding the service were revealed in a cluster board paper.
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NewsExclusive: Most troubled trust could be allowed to go bankrupt
The most financially troubled hospital trust in England could effectively be allowed go bankrupt and see its work redistributed between the independent sector and other trusts.
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NewsEmergency services to stage Olympics incident drill
The emergency services will practise their response to a major incident during the London 2012 Games when a large scale exercise is staged this week.
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Hertfordshire trust 'could join London cancer network'
STRUCTURE: East and North Hertfordshire hospital trust could join the London Cancer Alliance becdause of its role managing services at Mount Vernon Hospital.
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NHS North West London awards £3.3m 111 contract
COMMERCIAL: Seventeen organisations expressed an interest in a two-year NHS 111 contract but only two actually bid, a report from the cluster said.
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Commuter influx sees NHS Westminster selected to pilot GP choice scheme
PERFORMANCE: The central London borough of Westminster is one of the pilot PCTs in a scheme to allow patients to choose their GP practice.
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North Middlesex University Hospital reports A&E problems in December
PERFORMANCE: An increase in emergency cases delivered by ambulance is thought to be one of the reasons for NMUH missing the A&E target for December.
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Mark Davies appointed permanent chief executive of Imperial
WORKFORCE: The west London hospital trust, one of the largest in the country, announced it was appointing Mr Davies permanently this morning.