All London articles – Page 140
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Epsom and St Helier secures £5m bailout from cluster to end the year £14m in deficit
FINANCE: The London/Surrey borders trust’s latest finance report said it was planning to hit its revised £14.3 deficit target after “revenue support of £5m has been agreed with sector” and NHS London.
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London queries whether CCG staff loans lead to 'unfair advantage'
WORKFORCE: NHS London has taken legal advice on whether members of primary care trust staff who are “loaned” to clinical commissioning groups have an unfair advantage when the CCG posts are advertised.
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NewsPatient reported outcome measures methodology queried by 'negative outlier'
A specialist orthopaedic hospital is reviewing the methodology used for patient reported outcome measures after it was identified as a possible “negative outlier” by the Department of Health.
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Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospital staff 'concern' at midwives leaving after training
WORKFORCE: Staff at the east London hospital trust complained to managers that midwives recruited in Ireland and Italy had left shortly after being brought “up to standard”.
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A&E admissions metric set to cost Barnet and Chase Farm £1m
PERFORMANCE: The north central London hospital trust is breaching the commissioner-set targets for converting A&E attendances into admissions.
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Barnet and Chase Farm's year-to-date deficit better than predicted
FINANCE: The north London acute trust recorded a deficit at month eight of £1.1m against a plan of £2.6m
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Barnet and Chase Farm appointment reminder service starts at end of January
PERFORMANCE: The north central Londona acute trust will begin the free reminder service at the end of this month.
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Media coverage sees complaints double at troubled trust
PERFORMANCE: The east London trust has seen an average of 83 complaints a month since last January, compared to an average of 44 the previous month.
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Lewisham Healthcare Trust releases reserves to cover CIP gap
FINANCE: The south London integrated care trust has delivered £7.7m of its £8.4m cost improvement programme, its latest finance report said.
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Lewisham Healthcare Trust to take over eight PCT properties
STRUCTURE: The south London trust will take over eight properties from the south east London cluster of primary care trusts under the Transforming Communtiy Services framework.
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DH wins right to appeal Royal Brompton judicial review decision
STRUCTURE: The joint council of primary care trusts, set up by the Department of Health to review paediatric surgery, has won the right to appeal a judge’s decision that its consultation last year was unlawful.
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NewsExclusive: trusts given days to apply for £300m capital fund
The Department of Health has confirmed the existence of a surprise £300m fund for capital projects that some trusts had seven working days to apply for - and others have still not been told about.
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Two Croydon GP groups merge
STRUCTURE: The two emerging clinical commissioning groups under Croydon PCT have decided to merge.
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Sutton and Merton to have one CCG per borough
STRUCTURE: Sutton and Merton GPs have decided to move to two emerging clinical commissioning groups, each matching one of the London boroughs, with “close working in the future where the two CCGs’ agendas overlap”.
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Barts plastic surgery nurse given MBE
WORKFORCE: Daren Edwards, clinical nurse specialist in plastic surgery at Barts and the London, has been awarded an MBE for services to nursing.
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Former Kingston chair gets CBE
WORKFORCE: Former NHS Kingston chair Neslyn Watson-Druée has been awarded a CBE for services to healthcare.
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New chief operating officer for Guy's and St Thomas'
WORKFORCE: Amanda Pritchard, currently deputy chief executive at Chelsea and Westminster Foundation Trust, is leaving in the spring to join the south London giant.
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Hospital chief exec to take up new role with SHA
WORKFORCE: Heather Lawrence OBE is to leave Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust and start a new role with NHS London supporting non-foundation trusts in getting authorised by Monitor.
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North central London cluster predicts £24m deficit
FINANCE: The north central London PCT cluster is predicting a deficit of £24m by the end of 2011-12
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PWC called in as NHS Haringey predicted to end year in deficit
FINANCE: The north east London commissioning body has had to call in consultants PricewaterhouseCooper after a £400,000 shortfall against its £5m saving plan.