South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2207
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HSJ Local
Sheffield's four consortia seek joint accountable officer
STRUCTURE: The four emerging commissioning consortia in Sheffield are forming an overarching committee, which will have an accountable officer.
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HSJ Local
Sheffield PCT delivers surplus but has to use £10m reserves
FINANCE: Sheffield PCT has delivered a small surplus of £499k in 2010-11 after a very difficult financial year.
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HSJ Local
Barking and Dagenham's individual funding request policy adopted by cluster
FINANCE: Barking and Dagenham’s system for dealing with individual funding requests for treatments not normally funded on the NHS has been adopted by across its cluster, after being deemed the most efficient.
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HSJ Local
Sherwood Forest receives £4.28m more income than planned
FINANCE: Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust received £4.28m more income than planned last year due to overactivity.
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NewsHealth Select Committee calls for evidence on meeting the 'Nicholson Challenge'
The Health Select Committee is to review the progress of the NHS in meeting the “daunting” Nicholson Challenge to make £20bn of efficiency savings by 2014-15.
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NewsCost warning as sickness absence rises
Sickness absence increased slightly last year despite a government drive to replace sick notes with “fit notes”, new research showed today.
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NewsMonitor chair sets out case for competition
Monitor’s chair has set out a passionate case for increasing competition, choice and local autonomy in order to improve productivity and patient care.
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HSJ Local
NHS Barnsley identifies savings from cheaper bandage procurement
COMMERCIAL: The primary care trust in South Yorkshire has responded to calls to reduce the amount paid out by the NHS on basic supplies by reviewing its spending habits.
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NewsSlipman to leave independent FT Network after a year
The Foundation Trust Network has announced it will become formally independent of the NHS Confederation on 1 June and will be led by director Sue Slipman until April next year.
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NewsClinical networks to respond to competition fears
Clinical networks could be given a more prominent role to address fears that greater NHS competition will lead to service fragmentation and greater variations in standards of care.
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NewsSharp rise in boardroom turnover rates revealed
Turnover rates for NHS trust directors increased by a third in the year to March 2010, according to latest figures from Incomes Data Services.
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News£1.9bn cut to pay budgets revealed in trust CIPs
NHS providers are planning to cut pay budgets by £1.9bn this year, a study released exclusively to HSJ has revealed.
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News'Disappointing' DH delays Mid Staffs inquiry
The public inquiry into Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has been held up by the Department of Health’s failure to disclose relevant documents.
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NewsInfection target 'unachievable' under new tests
Trusts that have failed to meet their C difficile infection targets because of changes in how patient tests are carried out are challenging the “achievability” of even tougher measures.
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PCTs withholding consortia funding, claims NAPC
Primary care trusts could be setting commissioning consortia up to fail by denying them development funding, the National Association of Primary Care has claimed.
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NewsGovernment public health response held until July
A government response to the public health white paper consultation will not be published until July, Department of Health officials have told MPs.
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HSJ Local
Multimillion pound commissioning support tender suspended
FINANCE: A multi-million pound tender process for development support for commissioning consortia across London has been “suspended indefinitely”.
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NewsSenior medical figures criticise post-discharge care
Senior medical figures have attacked the quality of care for patients coming out of hospital following an operation.
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CommentMedia Watch: Clegg back in the spotlight after veto pledge
Unsurprisingly one health story dominated the papers at the start of the week.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: a cunning plot, outed
The conspiracy theorists were busy earlier this month proposing that Monitor had deliberately “buried” its updated financial assumptions over the bank holiday weekend.