All London articles – Page 180
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London unveils trauma plans to save 500 lives every year
A consultation is expected to begin tomorrow on the location of London's specialist trauma and stroke centres.
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Service redesign key to survival of local hospitals
A radical redesign of services could be essential for small local hospitals' survival.
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Corrigan quits NHS London amid shake-up
NHS London director Paul Corrigan is leaving the organisation as it prepares to hive off some of its major functions to a newly created body.
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HSJ KnowledgeSexual health commissioning: making sense of contraceptive use
Sexual health is firmly on the national to-do list. NHS organisations are implementing the 2001 Sexual Health and HIV strategy.
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Foundation trust failure: who's for the chop?
As the original deadline passes, 80-odd trusts are lagging in the race to achieve foundation status. Sally Gainsbury ponders the fate of those that fail to hit the mark
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London PCTs pin hopes on debt plan to avert mergers
London's primary care trusts are hoping a high profile bailout of the capital's historic debt will demonstrate they can work together - and avert the threat of mergers.
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David Woodhead on an NHS revolution
'All that is solid', wrote Marx in 1848, 'melts into air'. He was reflecting on what happens when the certainties that give our life structure and meaning are inverted.
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London PCTs to pay off capital's debts
London primary care trusts are to pay off the historic debt of trusts in the capital to prevent it reaching £579m by 2011.Backed by NHS London, the PCTs are proposing establishing a collective fund to pay off the debts, consisting of £304m of 'topslice' funding held by the strategic health ...
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London hospitals told to prepare for loss of income
Local hospitals in London are being told to prepare for a reduction in their income of 15-25 per cent.
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London hospitals jostle to run specialist stroke units
London's hospital trusts are clamouring to be named specialist stroke centres as the capital embarks on centralising major acute services.
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London reconfiguration plans face legal challenge
Reconfiguration plans in London backed by health secretary Alan Johnson will be challenged in court by campaigners.
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Health ministers 'warned about Haringey child protection processes'
Health ministers were warned about Haringey council's child protection processes just months before the death of a baby at the centre of an abuse scandal.
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How human resources can add value in the NHS
Assessing and redesigning its human resource management model allowed one trust to make the most of its people, as Ian Young explains
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University College London Hospitals ploughs surplus into cancer centre
The foundation trust with the biggest surplus is about to start spending it.
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Proposed supertrust could start life £200m in the red
A new supertrust could provide health services throughout much of south east London from next April - but would start life with a debt of more than £200m.
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Stephen Ramsden on patient safety's missing link
I remain vexed by the question ‘how can we engage junior doctors in patient safety?’
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PCT demands payout for Heathrow runway disturbance
A primary care trust will demand a major financial compensation package for the extra strain on resources if Heathrow Airport is granted a third runway.
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Alan Johnson wants fewer London PCTs
Alan Johnson has called for a debate about whether there are too many primary care trusts in London. The health secretary told HSJ that he didn't think having 31 PCTs covering London was 'the most sensible arrangement'.
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PCTs mull pan-London immunisation programme
Primary care trust chief executives are considering plans for a pan-London immunisation programme.
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Questions over who will pay bill after Chase Farm Hospital fire
Questions remain over who will foot the bill for patients transferred from a medium secure mental health unit that was destroyed in a fire.