South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2095
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NewsExclusive: DH QIPP team takes over information strategy
The long-awaited NHS information strategy has been taken out the Department of Health’s informatics directorate, and is instead being led by the team responsible for the quality, innovation, productivity and prevention programme.
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NewsExclusive: GPs 'anxious' about conflicts of interest in commissioning, says doctors regulator
GP commissioners should tell a patient if budgets or referral policies mean he or she cannot access healthcare, and also raise the issue with their commissioning group, the doctors regulator has said.
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NewsSixty hospitals face 'collapse' over PFI deals, admits Lansley
More than 60 hospitals can not afford the rising cost of private finance initiative schemes and are being left “on the brink of financial collapse”, according to the health secretary.
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BMA rules out pensions action 'at this point'
Doctors’ leaders have ruled out industrial action “at this point” in the bitter dispute over public sector pensions despite voicing support for the TUC’s day of action in November.
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Comment'The NHS needs to avoid the wrong kind of integration'
Now that the government accepts that integrated care has a major role to play in the NHS, we must avoid the pitfalls that could prevent it delivering proper benefits to patients, argues King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham.
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LeaderNHS giants sound warning of acute financial turmoil
The leafy villages of Great and Little Shelford lie around five miles south of Cambridge. Shelford boasts a rich history reaching back to the Domesday Book, but it is also has claim to fame in NHS circles.
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Super merger plans let down by £116m PFI shortfall
STRUCTURE: A planned merger that would create England’s largest NHS trust would require £116m of support in its first year.
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NewsExclusive: top teaching hospitals under threat from tariff system
The payment by results tariff system could tip England’s elite teaching hospitals into deficit and damage the country’s medical research industry, their chief executives have warned.
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NewsProviding integrated care won't be easier for CCGs, study suggests
Clinical commissioning groups will find it no easier than primary care trusts to provide integrated care unless they are able to overcome perverse incentives, a report has found.
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CommentReconfiguration plans grow in confidence in the South East
With reconfiguration no longer a dirty word following the approval of plans for Chase Farm Hospital, other trusts may be more confident in getting service changes through while a Whitehall wind is seemingly behind them.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: as if by magic... How the government conjured up a saving
The great news revealed in the recent NHS 2010-11 accounts is that commissioners spent significantly less on administration that year than was previously assumed.
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NewsPoor NHS cost data will delay national pricing, Audit Commission warns
Costing data in the NHS is too poor to establish fixed national prices for new acute and community services, an Audit Commission review has found.
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CommentMichael White: don't get mad, get on with it
By the time I reached Birmingham for the Liberal Democrats’ autumn conference, the threatened drama about the fate of Andrew Lansley’s much-amended Health and Social Care Bill was all over bar the inevitable shouting.
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GP conflicts of interest could 'badly undermine' confidence in NHS
Conflicts of interest under clinical commissioning could “badly undermine the confidence of regulators, providers, and patients” in the NHS, the NHS Confederation and Royal College of General Practice Centre for Commissioning have warned.
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CommentMedia Watch: notes on a sandal
No single, major health story seemed to grab the attention of the national media at the start of this week – the papers instead mostly opted to write about nurses’ shoes and a missing filing cabinet.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to incorporate diversity into a top performing team
When it comes to workforce and recruitment, “diversity” has become associated with creating challenges for employers, managers and their teams. Philppa Tucker discusses how to approach recruitment so that workforce diversity ends up benefiting everyone involved.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy the NHS needs more transparency in benchmarking to truly drive better services
The NHS brand provides an assurance of quality, but the benchmarking process is murky and doesn’t allow for comparison with independent care providers - calling into doubt whether benchmarking currently can really be a useful tool for measuring performance, says Patrick Carter.
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CommentSocially enterprising South West faces union resistance
Minutes from a recent NHS South West board meeting published last week reveal the extent of union disquiet at plans to transfer around half of the region’s community services to social enterprises.
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Mid Staffs seeks bailout to avert cash crisis
FINANCE: Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has sunk so much money into resolving its care quality failures it will run out of cash by December unless it secures a bailout.
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NewsCabinet Office review condemns NPfIT
Ministers have today pledged to hasten the demise of the National Programme for IT after a Cabinet Office review found that it could not deliver on its original aims.