South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1552
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CCG warns on North Bristol ambulance handovers
PERFORMANCE: A performance board paper for South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group warns that North Bristol NHS Trust ambulance handover breach rates remain higher than the target, and that the ambulance trust failed to meet its target for 2012-13.
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NewsGood quality of care 'hit or miss'
The quality of end-of-life care for the terminally ill depends on “arbitrary” factors such as disease, age and geographical location, according to a new report.
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Somerset CCG focuses on urgent and emergency care
PERFORMANCE: The latest board papers for Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group show the CCG’s concerns over “urgent and emergency care pressures”.
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NewsKey figures identities' hidden in Morecambe Bay report
Fears over breaching data protection laws prevented Care Quality Commission employees from being named in the “damning” report of the regulation of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation, the organisation has said.
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CCG concern over Great Western A&E performance
PERFORMANCE: Performance board papers for Swindon CCG highlight its concern over the four hour A&E waiting time target at Great Western Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Swindon CCG cash draw down hitch
FINANCE: According to the latest finance board papers for Swindon CCG the organisation has been forced to “draw down £4m more than it needed for April.”
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Dorset County Hospital 'crowdsources' improvements
SERVICE DESIGN: Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is using the ideas of its front line staff to try and help reduce patients’ feeling of isolation.
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Devon Partnership psychiatrist to lead regional mental health network
STRUCTURE: A consultant psychiatrist at Devon Partnership Trust’s Langdon Hospital, in Dawlish, has been appointed by NHS England as the inaugural chair of a new mental health network.
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NewsRicketts 'sceptical' about CCGs relying on in-house support
NHS England’s director of commissioning support strategy has indicated he is “deeply sceptical” that clinical commissioning groups can function at their best without buying in support services.
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Richmond CCG uses reserves to plug overspend
FINANCE: RIchmond CCG has used reserves and underspends in primary care commissioning and “corporate and public health costs” to offset overspends elsewhere.
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HSJ LocalHusband and wife take over at troubled £1bn hospital trust
STRUCTURE: A husband-and-wife team of former primary care trust leaders have been appointed as interim chief executive and turnaround director of the huge and troubled Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust.
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NewsHealth and wellbeing boards may control £1bn under integration plan
Health and wellbeing boards could be given control of more than £1bn funding from the Department of Health budget under plans being considered by ministers and local government leaders.
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Barts Health predicts breakeven but will miss savings target, says board
FINANCE: Barts Health Trust has downgraded its year-end surplus forecast but still plans to break even, a board report reveals.
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NewsExclusive: Surgeons may not be able to block performance data publication, NHS England believes
NHS England has received legal advice which says surgeons cannot block publication of their performance data, HSJ has been told.
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NewsUpdated: Investigators reveal CQC 'cover up' over Morecambe Bay
The suppression of a report criticising the Care Quality Commission’s regulatory oversight of scandal-hit University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay may well have constituted a deliberate cover up by senior management at the regulator, an independent investigation has concluded.
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NewsHSJ Live 19.06.2013: Fallout from CQC revelations
The publication and fallout from the independent investigation into the Care Quality Commission’s handling of Morecambe Bay, and the rest of today’s news
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Avon and Wiltshire moves from 'punitive to supportive' culture
PERFORMANCE: A mental health trust that was described as having “centralist, top down and target driven” culture less than a year ago has moved from “punitive to supportive”, a report has found.
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HSJ KnowledgeVirtual patients let doctors see into the future
Digital patients reveal how people will be affected by disease
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HSJ KnowledgeBank on the internet to save the NHS
How the health service can extract more from its existing resources
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CommentMore patient rights and provider responsibility
The transparency and accountability drive continues apace