All London articles – Page 154
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HSJ Local
North Middlesex University Hospital addresses Legionella risk
PERFORMANCE: The north London trust has transferred responsibility for maintaining its water system to contractors Ecovert and water samples are being tested regularly in response to high levels of Legionella being identified.
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HSJ Local
Two deprivation of liberty cases substantiated against South London Healthcare Trust
PERFORMANCE: The large acute trust is increasing training on safeguarding after a report to its board said: “Two cases of abuse have been partiallysubstantiated against the Trust in relation to poor discharge planning”.
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HSJ Local
Lewisham Healthcare Trust puts off replacing pathology equipment
FINANCE: The south London trust said there was “uncertainty about the future of pathology services on the University Hospital Lewisham site”
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HSJ Local
Trust sells half its beds to rent them back
FINANCE: A hospital trust has sold half of its beds to a Dutch company for half a million pounds and is leasing them back, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsDH to review FT application process to avoid 'embarrassment'
The Department of Health is overhauling the process for checking whether a trust is ready to apply for foundation status to avoid “embarrassing” the health secretary, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsNHS London outlines GP scorecard scheme
NHS London’s medical director has given details of a GP scorecard scheme which is expected to become a template for a national government drive to increase the transparency of general practice.
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HSJ Local
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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HSJ Local
Neighbouring trust expecting jump in maternity work after East and North Herts Trust obstetrics unit closes
STRUCTURE:A business case to expand the maternity unit at Barnet Hospital will be presented to the next meeting of Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals Trust.
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HSJ Local
Barnet and Chase Farm plan on asking for NHS London bailout
FINANCE: A report to the trust’s board said the organisation would make a presentation to NHS London’s Challenged Trust Board in September to ask for funds.
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HSJ Local
Barnet and Chase Farm facing £7m savings gap
FINANCE: The north London trust has published early findings of its finance review by new chief executive Mark Easton.
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HSJ Local
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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HSJ Local
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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HSJ Local
Barts improves agency spend
WORKFORCE: The east London hospital has seen a falling off of the amount it spends on agency and bank nursing staff.
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HSJ Local
CQC launch investigation into troubled east London trust
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has launched a “full investigation” of the acute trust focussing on emergency care, elective care and maternity.
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HSJ Local
South London Healthcare Trust misses referral to treatment target
PERFORMANCE: The south London acute saw 75.7 per cent of patients treated within 18 weeks of referral, against a national target of 90 per cent.
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HSJ Local
St George's Healthcare misses its referral to treatment time target
PERFORMANCE: The south London acute saw 77.3 per cent of patients treated within 18 weeks of referral, against a national target of 90 per cent.
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NewsSeven trusts and two primary care trusts finished 2010-11 in deficit, DH says
Two primary care trusts and seven trusts finished the year in deficit, according to figures released by the Department of Health.
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HSJ Local
Giant trust could emerge from London merger plan
STRUCTURE: Two London trusts have asked management consultants to assess their future configuration options, including a potential merger that would create one of the biggest providers in England.
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HSJ Local
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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HSJ Local
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.