FINANCE: The south east London acute trust is predicting spending £2.4m on treating orthopaedics and bariatrics patients at private facilities.
Gynaecology and endoscopy will also be in part outsourced to try and hit 18-week waiting list targets, the trust’s most recent board papers revealed.
The document said the current year-end defict was forecast at £69.8m.
Board papers
February 2012
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The chief executive of a large integrated care board is stepping down ahead of a widely anticipated merger with its neighbour.
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
There will be just two chief executives covering the 12 groups in south London from October, ahead of planned mergers in April next year.
Commissioners in south London have complained to counterparts in the north west of the city about GP at Hand – claiming patients who switch to the online service are not clearly told they could lose access to their existing GP.
A clinical commissioning group has dropped a plan to pilot an asthma service with the controversial online primary care company Babylon Health, after opposition from its GPs.
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