South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1959
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HSJ Local
Bury pulls ‘contractual levers’ over Pennine Acute cancer waits
PERFORMANCE: NHS Bury has “enforced contractual levers” in a bid to increase the speed at which the trust refers patients in need of specialist cancer treatment, board papers state.
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HSJ Local
Interim chief bids for permanent role at Heatherwood and Wexham Park
WORKFORCE: Philippa Slinger, the interim chief of troubled Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals Foundation Trust, has said she plans to apply for the role of permanent chief executive.
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HSJ Local
East Sussex on course to meet MRSA target but not C diff
PERFORMANCE: Latest board papers reveal that East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is only a couple of cases away from busting its Clostridium difficile target but remains on course for MRSA.
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HSJ Local
Performance metrics problem for East Sussex Healthcare
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust was still struggling to deliver against national performance metrics in a number of areas, according to board papers.
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HSJ Local
£3.3m funding boost for North Bristol
FINANCE: North Bristol Trust will receive £3.3m over the next year as part of the Department’s of Health capital giveaway.
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HSJ Local
New director of operations for Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt FT
WORKFORCE: Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Val Doyle as its new director of operations.
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NewsPM reveals details of £330m NHS capital funding
Prime Minister David Cameron today announced details of £330m of funding allocated for NHS capital projects.
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Blogs
Motivation is needed to see clinical commissioning succeed
Many aspects of the Health and Social Care Bill have given rise to heated debate, but one of the most controversial has been the question of whether GPs should have formal statutory responsibility for commissioning.
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HSJ KnowledgeSafer passage: how care navigators help improve mental health services
The introduction of care navigators has revolutionised services for a London mental health trust’s older patients. Caroline Leveaux and colleagues explain.
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NewsExclusive: commissioning board says CSSs 'on the cusp of failing'
“Too many” of the support services vital to the success of the new NHS clinical commissioning system are “on the cusp of failing”, according to leaked NHS Commissioning Board papers.
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NewsDH chief defends early implementation of NHS reforms
The Department of Health’s most senior civil servant has defended work to implement the government’s NHS reforms before its Health Bill has been passed, in evidence to a tribunal.
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NewsNew end of life guidance for acutes
Hospital managers and directors are to get new guidance on improving end of life care.
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HSJ KnowledgeLabour of love: making a maternity services reconfiguration successful
The reconfiguration of Manchester’s maternity services may have been a long time coming, but it has lessons for the rest of the country, finds Crispin Dowler.
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HSJ Local
Wye Valley receives additional PCT funding
FINANCE: The West Mercia Primary Care Trust cluster has provided additional funding to ensure that Wye Valley Trust meets the 18 week referral to treatment target in all specialties.
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HSJ Local
Wye Valley receives mortality alert
PERFORMANCE: Wye Valley Trust received a mortality outlier alert from the Care Quality Commission in November.
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HSJ Local
QIPP failure driving contract overspend at East Kent Hospitals
FINANCE: East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust was overspent on its contract with NHS Kent and Medway by £3.5m in January, largely driven by a failure to make savings in urgent care and an unplanned growth in activity.
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HSJ Local
Northern Devon fails four hour A&E target
PERFORMANCE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust only saw 90.8 per cent of patients in accident and emergency within fours hours during January, against a target of 95 per cent.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells £1.5m overspent
FINANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust was overspent on its contract with commissioners by £1.5m after 10 months of the financial year.
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HSJ Local
Medway FT overspend increases to £.07m
FINANCE: Medway NHS Foundation Trust’s overspend on its contracts with commissioners has increased but remains below £1m, according to latest board papers.
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HSJ Local
Irish nurses key to Surrey and Sussex recruitment plan
WORKFORCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust was relying on the arrival of a group of nurses from Ireland to bring two new wards up to their full staffing compliments.