All London articles – Page 176
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NewsAnother reconfiguration passes Lansley's 'four tests'
One of the reconfigurations stopped under Andrew Lansley’s post-election moratorium on hospital closures has been approved by a strategic health authority.
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NewsPCTs expected to be ‘ordered’ to cluster
The Department of Health is likely to make mergers of primary care trusts a requirement in its operating framework for 2011-12, HSJ has been told.
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NewsLondon to fund development pot for pathfinders
NHS London is to pay pathfinder commissioning consortia £1.66 per registered patient to support their development.
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NewsNHS London gives hundreds of staff at-risk notices
NHS London has begun alerting hundreds of staff internally and across the capital’s 31 primary care trusts that their jobs are at risk.
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NewsPublic health body fears PCTs are ‘asset stripping’
More than a quarter of London primary care trusts have no public health director and 13 per cent of PCTs in England have also failed to fill the key post.
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NewsOlympics corporate sponsorship a 'challenge' to public health
The line-up of likely fast food and alcohol sponsors to the London 2012 Olympic Games represents a public health “challenge”, the NHS lead for the event has said.
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NewsTrust plans closure of seven wards
A hospital trust plans to close the equivalent of seven wards to get back into financial balance.
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NewsGP commissioner groups ‘will be size of PCTs’
One of NHS London’s leading GPs has said most of the capital’s commissioning groups will be the same size as primary care trusts.
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NewsPCTs differ widely over antibiotics prescription
There are wide disparities in antibacterial drugs prescribing by primary care trust area, figures shared exclusively with HSJ reveal.
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NewsNHS London makes appointment to first set of merged PCTs
NHS London has finalised the new management structure for the first of its merged primary care trusts.
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NewsMP calls for NAO investigation into 'misguided' halting of reconfiguration plans
An MP has asked the National Audit Office to investigate health secretary Andrew Lansley’s decision to order a review of a reconfiguration consultation.
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NewsNHS London volunteers external oversight in 'Lansley tests' over reconfiguration plans
NHS London could lose its responsibility for applying the four tests Andrew Lansley has ordered all hospital reconfiguration plans to meet.
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NewsTransforming Community Services: PCTs step closer to deciding fate of provider arms
Primary care trusts are edging closer to determining the future of their provider arms.
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NewsNHS London to speed up management cost reductions
London strategic health authority is bringing forward a planned £50m cut in its management costs by a year.
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NewsEight PCTs to share single management
Representatives of eight London primary care trusts have agreed to put their organisations into three clusters under one management framework, saving £48m.
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NewsRoyal London drops 'homeopathy' from its title
A London NHS hospital is dropping the word homeopathy from its title, it has been announced.
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NewsDithering trusts increase their staff agency bills
Acute trusts are inadvertently increasing staffing costs and reducing patient safety through indecision over whether to employ bank staff, according to a report seen by HSJ.
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NewsPCT support agency will look beyond London
The organisation set up to support the capital’s primary care trust commissioners is looking to offer its services beyond London, its chair has told HSJ.
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NewsCentralising stroke services improves care, says NHS London
The centralisation of stroke services across London has more than tripled the number of patients receiving life-saving clot busting treatment in just five months, according to latest figures from NHS London.
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NewsDeparting NHS London chair hits out at Lansley
The NHS London chair who resigned in protest at the government’s reconfiguration policy has formally stepped down, leaving the strategic health authority struggling to maintain a functioning board.