South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1914
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Renal service becomes biggest in East of England
SERVICES: Patients in Bedford and Harlow will be able to get dialysis closer to home thanks to two planned satellite renal dialysis units.
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Colchester improves communication with care homes
SERVICES: Staff at Colchester General Hospital and Essex County Hospital are working more closely with local care homes to improve communication about patients.
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Strike threat as paid tea breaks scrapped at Cambridge
Staff at Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust could be balloted on industrial action in a row over pay cuts.
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Royal Cornwall fined £130,000
FINANCE: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has been fined £46,000 for breaches of rules on mixed sex accommodation and £85,525 for ambulance handover times longer than 15 minutes.
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Greater Manchester trust to take over Cumbria drug recovery services
STRUCTURE: The trust has won a contract to take over the running of alcohol and drugs recovery services in Cumbria from 1 July 2012, it reported last week.
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Waiting times risk rating worsens at Shropshire's orthopaedic trust
More than a third of admitted patients at Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital FT had to wait longer than 18 weeks to be treated.
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Minister denies cutting Welsh NHS budget
PERFORMANCE: Wales’s health minister Lesley Griffiths has said she will not be taking any lessons from her party’s rivals the Conservatives when it comes to the NHS.
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NHS Hillingdon awards NHS 111 pilot contract to Harmoni
COMMERCIAL: The north west London primary care trust awarded the £1.3m contract to the Watford-based provider as part of the national wave two of the NHS 111 service pilots.
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South Tyne FT overhauls appraisal for senior medics
WORKFORCE: South Tyneside Foundation Trust had overhauled its senior medical appraisal process.
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New chief executive to start at Calderdale FT
WORKFORCE: Owen Williams, the new Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust chief executive, is due to start imminently.
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Northern Devon ahead on surplus
FINANCE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust finished 2011-12 with a surplus of £1.6m about £23,000 ahead of its revised agreed plan with NHS South of England.
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Infection rates slashed at Lincolnshire hospitals
Infection rates at United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust have been dramatically slashed over the last five years, the trust has claimed.
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Birmingham FT £1.8m behind on CIP
FINANCE: University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust achieved 91 per cent of its £18.8m cost improvement plan savings in 2011-12.
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Final days of survey on Leicestershire community services
The East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group is asking for views on elective care services such as out-patient appointments, minor injury units and minor surgery.
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NewsIncreased sleeping pill use costs NHS £50m
The NHS spent nearly £50m on sleeping pills last year, a sharp rise on previous costs, new figures reveal.
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Contingency funds secure surplus at Birmingham and Solihull MH trust
FINANCE: Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust achieved a £400,000 surplus in 2011-12, but only after releasing £2.2m of contingency funding.
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Devon cluster meets 6 week target
PERFORMANCE: The Devon, Plymouth and Torbay cluster met the six week target for diagnostic tests for the first time in 2011-12 during February.
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Chesterfield Royal units get upgrade
STRUCTURE: Work is due to begin next month on a major upgrade to the Women’s Health Unit and a maternity ward at the Chesterfield Royal Hospital.
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Mid Staffs A&E re-opening pushed back again
STRUCTURE: Clinicians have pushed back the re-opening of Mid Staffs A&E department to October amid concerns recent improvements may not be sustainable.
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Report urges radical NHS centralisation
STRUCTURE: Health bodies in Wales need to centralise swathes of their services if they are to avoid collapse, according to an industry expert.