South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1066
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'Essential' NHS anti-fraud training to be axed
NHS Protect’s role to change from “direct operational support” to “standard setting, benchmarking and assurance” Body wants to address risk that NHS boards would “not properly take ownership of local anti-crime risks” However, its business plan for 2015-16 stressed the importance of local support and training, and made no ...
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HSJ Local
'Unsettling period' for community services trust losing £24m contract
East Cheshire Trust is to lose a £24m contract for community services from October after commissioners served notice on the trust, HSJ can reveal.
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Comment
The real provider sector deficit is nearer £4bn than £3bn
We face a choice for 2018-19 and 2019-20 of investing more in the NHS in those years or reducing the service we provide to meet the budget available, Chris Hopson writes
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News
'No convincing plan' for NHS to save £22bn, says scathing report
PAC accuses government of being too slow to address hospital deficits “Not yet a convincing plan” for closing the £22bn efficiency gap by 2020-21, report says “Unacceptable” for officials to blame excessive agency costs as source of trusts’ difficulties Data used by Carter review to assess hospital efficiency was ...
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Samantha Jones: ‘Only the strongest vanguards will get extra funding’
Samantha Jones says “not all of the vanguards will get access to transformation funding” Funding in 2016-17 will be similar to previous year’s £200m pot “Voluntary contract” for multispecialty community providers to be published in coming months Ms Jones says some vanguards could drop out next year Next ...
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News
Department of Health communications boss to leave
The Department of Health’s director of communications, Sam Lister, is to leave to take up a new post at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
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HSJ Local
Trust offers nurses better pay for opting out of pension
Oxleas Foundation Trust has defended a controversial pay deal aimed at attracting agency nurses, which means band 5 nurses can earn more if they opt out of the NHS pension scheme.
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Comment
How vanguards are connecting people to non-medical sources of support
The new care model vanguards are already making great strides in supporting people by connecting them to non-medical help, Samantha Jones writes
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Comment
How NICE has been a 'terrible beauty'
The National Institute for Health and Care Exellence has been doing the balancing act despite sticking to its cost effective agenda, Nick Timmins writes
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Catchup: 14 March 2016
Make sure you are up to date with the events of the last seven days with our insight into the stories that matter most
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HSJ Local
FT beats private provider to delayed £45m contract
COMMERCIAL: Hull based Humber Foundation Trust is the new provider of a delayed £45m contract to run community and out of hours services in Whitby.
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News
Updated: Judge orders trust to re-employ surgeon after private work row
A hospital trust has been ordered to re-employ a surgeon it sacked after claiming he had put an NHS patient at risk by prioritising his private work.
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HSJ Local
300 CSU staff to transfer to CCG
About 300 support staff for Greater Manchester to move to Oldham Clinical Commissioning Group Option of transferring staff to another CSU rejected for fears it would undermine devolution project There have been at least 22 redundancies About 300 commissioning support staff for Greater Manchester are set to be ...
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News
GP federation could create a ‘super partnership’ covering 540,000 patients
Suffolk GP Federation, which covers 540,000 patients, explores options on becoming a super partnership Chief executive says move could give more support to 61 practices, but choice is for practices The federation is “neutral” on what change is best One of the country’s largest GP federations is consulting ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Charting the increasing role of allied health professionals in the NHS
HCL Workforce Solutions’ Claire Billenness on the positive contribution made by the AHP workforce to the country’s health and wellbeing
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Comment
Why we should value finance professionals
Non-clinical workers may not directly save lives, but they provide essential support to clinicians who do
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HSJ Knowledge
It’s time to call on the A-team: allied health professionals
In an age when massive savings are required of trusts, why do allied health professionals remain such a hugely untapped resource?
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Comment
Planning a hospital for constant capacity - a worked example
Common sense is as important as planning when it comes to defeating expensive peaks and troughs of capacity
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