South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2190
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NewsFawcett makes sudden exit from General Healthcare
Adrian Fawcett has suddenly stepped down from his role as chief executive of General Healthcare Group, the UK’s biggest private healthcare provider.
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NewsLansley ready to modify reforms
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has said he was ready to accept “substantial and significant” changes to his NHS reform plans.
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NewsFour arrested over residential hospital 'abuse'
The operator of a residential hospital has apologised unreservedly and suspended a number of staff following allegations that carers routinely abused vulnerable adults with learning difficulties.
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CommentNorth Yorkshire and York faces ongoing financial difficulties
North Yorkshire and York is one of the most financially troubled primary care trusts in the country.
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CommentSouth East Coast trusts chasing foundation status
Like many trusts around the country, those in the South East Coast are busy considering ways of getting themselves to the holy grail of foundation status.
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NewsOrganisational reform poses 'catastrophic' information risk
Managers could “stumble into illegality” by breaching the Data Protection Act as a result of the rapid structural reforms to the NHS, HSJ has learned.
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News'Biased' surgeons blamed for unnecessary recall
Surgeons who held a biased view of independent treatment centres caused the unnecessary recall of more than 600 patients, a new report claims.
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CommentMedia Watch: waiting for the pause to fast forward
Every paper told a different story at the start of this week, despite speculation growing ahead of the arrival of the Future Forum’s recommended amendments to the Health Bill.
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FT to survey staff on plans to trade restricted terms for job cuts
WORKFORCE: A Surrey foundation trust is to poll its staff on whether they would accept watering down their nationally agreed terms and conditions in exchange for fewer job cuts.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: parallel process in danger of doubling costs
First, in April, came the “pause” in the passage of the Health Bill. Then the “listening exercise” and the appointment of the NHS Future Forum. And, along the way, the Liberal Democrats’ humiliation in the May elections.
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NewsDoctors' bonuses could be replaced with non-cash prizes, says DH
Pay awards worth £500m a year could be withheld from consultant doctors and replaced with “non-financial” prizes, the Department of Health has suggested.
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NewsHealth and wellbeing boards 'lack real influence'
“Weak” health and wellbeing boards could result in the NHS Commissioning Board playing the leading role in driving the performance of GP consortia, the King’s Fund has warned in a report.
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CommentMichael White: how to survive in the blame game
I heard a senior NHS manager on the radio mid-week sounding like Sharon (“I don’t do blame”) Shoesmith, Haringey’s ousted children’s services chief, as he defended his hospital against a damning report from the Care Quality Commission.
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Cluster considering centralising pathology services across five PCTs
STRUCTURE: The south west London primary care trust cluster is looking to centralise the procurement of pathology services as part of a wider review of care.
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Surrey and Sussex Healthcare eyed for potential takeover
FINANCE: Expectation is growing that Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust may be one of the next acute trusts put up for takeover.
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NewsNew guidance warns of higher bar for JSNAs
The new “enhanced” joint strategic needs assessment does not represent “business as usual” for the NHS, guidelines have warned.
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NewsMore performance data to be released under new transparency guidelines
Ministers are set to order the health service to publicly release previously restricted clinical data sets as part of a renewed cross-government transparency push, HSJ has learned.
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NewsAudit Commission finds social care services improving
Local councils are improving their adult social care but need to pick up the pace, a watchdog has said.
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Capita grabs toehold in HR as preferred supplier for twelve trusts
COMMERCIAL: Capita has been named “preferred supplier” of HR services for 12 north Merseyside NHS organisations. The deal gives the outsourcing firm a toehold in NHS human resources.
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NewsColleges raising entrance requirements to nursing students
Almost two thirds of institutions offering nursing degrees are increasing their entry requirements in the face of unprecedented demand for places, an investigation by HSJ’s sister title Nursing Times has revealed.