South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1116
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NewsHSJ annual lecture: Jeremy Hunt delivers a four point plan to help GPs
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt outlines his plan to open access to GP payment systems; eradicate time wasted on missed hospital appointments; make general practice paperless by 2018; and to root out bureaucracy through the smarter use of technology.
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Analysis: Growth in off-framework agency spending revealed
The sum spent by hospital trusts hiring off-framework agency staff grew by 41 per cent over the last financial year, HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsTwo trusts slip back to old nurse staffing levels after leaving special measures
Two acute trusts that were taken out of special measures after recruiting scores of nurses have slid back to their old staffing levels, HSJ analysis shows.
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HSJ LocalTrust loses one-in-seven substantive nurse posts over two years
WORKFORCE: A London mental health trust lost 14 per cent of its nursing workforce over the past two financial years, HSJ analysis has found.
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NewsExclusive: Mackey backs calls for reduced savings target
Jim Mackey says an efficiency factor of 2 per cent is “closer to what’s doable” in 2016-17 NHS Improvement chief says there’s a need to make savings targets “challenging but within reach” He hopes to “be clear” by end of the month about package of measures to help bring provider ...
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NewsMackey: Regulatory duties must not stop NHS Improvement helping trusts
NHS Improvement will have an “accountability edge and a regulatory edge”, says Jim Mackey Chief executive says more can be done to make competition a driver of improvement Trusts that are “quite close” to FT authorisation should be allowed to finish process The regulatory duties of NHS Improvement ...
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NewsExecutive Summary: Will the chancellor front up to Stevens?
HSJ’s roundup of the day’s essential health policy stories
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NewsExclusive: Stevens issues warning over government's NHS funding deal
Simon Stevens has issued a dramatic warning that the government’s spending review may not deliver a ‘workable’ funding settlement for the NHS.
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NewsAnalysis: Frontloaded funding deal would give the NHS a shot at success
Simon Stevens, one of the most influential individuals in Whitehall, has issued a warning over the NHS spending settlement for the next two years. Dave West says front-loading funding in the next two years would give the NHS a shot at success.
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HSJ Local‘Super practice’ vanguard appointed to run A&E ‘front door’
PRIMARY CARE: The primary care ‘super practice’ and vanguard site Lakeside Healthcare has begun triaging ambulatory patients who arrive at Leicester Royal Infirmary’s accident and emergency department.
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NewsVideo: Health secretary announces Ofsted style ratings for CCGs
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt announces NHS England will now deliver aggregated Ofsted style ratings to tackle what he dubbed the “transparency gap”.
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NewsExecutive Summary: Burt and earnings
HSJ’s roundup of the day’s must read stories in healthcare
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NewsVideo: Jeremy Hunt on NHS 'elephant traps'
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt explains why the digitising of medical records will only bring positive change if the NHS can avoid the elephant traps of increased bureaucracy, blurred accountability, financial waste and insecure data.
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NewsRevealed: Second commissioning support tender winner
The second tender for commissioning support services awarded via NHS England’s procurement framework has gone to Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit.
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LeaderJunior doctors: after the strike who will be the peacemakers?
Minds at the Department of Health and the BMA need to turn to what happens next after industrial action – a prolonged dispute is in nobody’s interest, least of all NHS patients
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NewsExclusive: DH gears up for further raid on capital budgets
The Department of Health has asked regulators to quantify the amount of NHS provider capital expenditure that could be delayed until 2016-17, as central bodies struggle to bring down the huge deficit expected in the provider sector this year.
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CommentWhy recovery in mental health is so important
Helping people with serious mental health problems back to leading normal lives is possible and crucial, says Lisa Rodrigues
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HSJ LocalAmbulance pilot scheme linked to patient death 'not suitably managed'
PATIENT SAFETY: An ambulance pilot that could have contributed to the death of at least one patient had no ‘risk assessment and limited risk management’, NHS England has concluded.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy the NHS must replicate retail
The health service has the greatest purchasing power in the UK