South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2111
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Staffordshire community providers form partnership trust
STRUCTURE: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust was launched as a new provider organisation on 1 September.
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Emerging Medway CCG sets out draft comms plans
PERFORMANCE: Medway Commissioning Group has published a draft communications and engagement strategy, focusing on reducing health inequalities.
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Blogs
Creating diversion will improve mental health screening throughout the judicial system
New evidence has shown that rates of mental ill health among offenders connected with probation services are worryingly high. An investment into diversion services can help provide these individuals with vital support services at the earliest opportunity, says Sean Duggan.
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NewsMPs call for PFI deals to be subject to FOI requests
The Commons’ public accounts committee has called for private finance initiative companies to be made subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
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Birmingham Hospital physio joins Olympic team
WORKFORCE: A physiotherapist at University Hospitals Birmingham foundation trust is set to join the Great Britain women’s Olympic hockey team.
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Coventry and Warwickshire already £1.5m in the red
FINANCE: Trust board papers reveal a £1.5m deficit which includes a £0.6m overspend in non-elective activity.
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Staff arrested following death at hospital in Chichester
PERFORMANCE: Three staff at a Sussex hospital have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the death of a 77-year-old patient from a suspected overdose.
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Comment'It's time for managers to stand up and be counted'
In the battle against Whitehall maybe the NHS needs its own Arab Spring – led by managers, suggests Kieran Walshie.
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News'Misleading' cancer screening programme under fire
The NHS breast cancer screening programme “misinforms” women and fails to disclose the harms of over-diagnosis, researchers have claimed.
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NewsGovernment hits back over BMA 'high risk reform' claims
A call by the British Medical Association for the government to withdraw or further amend its health reforms, which they say pose an “unacceptably high risk to the NHS”, has been described as “disappointing” by the DH.
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Comment'Health services need a new type of investment to help achieve savings'
The constrains that the current funding model puts on the NHS means value for money improvements are almost impossible to translate into long term savings. Paul Corrigan looks at how a new model of investment can change this cycle.
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HSJ Local
18 week target remains a 'challenge' in North Staffs
PERFORMANCE: The main “performance challenge” of the North Staffordshire PCT trust remains the achievement of the 18 week referral to treatment target for inpatient and day case surgery.
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Warrington and Halton Hospitals fights to retain vascular services
STRUCTURE: Warrington and Halton Hospitals Foundation Trust has vowed to fight a recommendation to reject its bid to become a high volume centre for arterial surgery, as part of a regional reorganisation of vascular services.
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South Warwickshire FT overperforms on contracts but beats surplus target
FINANCE: South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust reported a £971,000 surplus at the end of June, £264,000 better than expected, following widespread overperformance on contracts.
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Over 300 posts expected to go at Greater Manchester West FT
WORKFORCE: The mental health foundation trust expects to cut its headcount by nearly 10 per cent over the next three years, its strategic workforce plan shows.
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NHS 111 pilot coming to inner north west London
STRUCTURE: Three inner north west London boroughs are to pilot the non-emergency NHS 111 number from 24 October.
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Dates set for Hillingdon 111 pilot
STRUCTURE: NHS London has confirmed its NHS 111 service pilot will begin in October for the north west London borough.
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Trust plans to realise mortuary income potential
FINANCE: Salisbury Foundation Trust is planning to boost income from its mortuary, its fertility service and through treating more private patients.
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Dorset County agrees £5m loan
FINANCE: Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust has received a £5.3m loan from the foundation trust financing facility ahead of the sale of key assets, its annual plan reveals.
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GP practices in east and north Birmingham named as pathfinder consortia
STRUCTURE: Three groups of GP practices in east and north Birmingham have been named as pathfinder consortia.