South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2233
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Croydon Health Services cancer referrals measure down on last year
PERFORMANCE: The acute and community services provider saw a fall of nearly 10 per cent on its performance against the target for two-week maximum wait for urgent suspected cancer referrals from GP to first outpatient appointment.
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TCS ends agreement between Kent and Medway and county council
STRUCTURE: A section 75 integrated provider agreement for learning disabilities has ended between the mental health trust and the county council.
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Sheffield Children's Hospital reviewing private boards
STRUCTURE: Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is to review whether its board of directors will continue to meet in private in May.
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Surrey and Borders Partnership launches pioneering organ donor guide
COMMERCIAL: Clinicians at Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust have created the country’s first official guide to organ donation for people with learning disabilities.
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Environment remains a ‘challenge’ for Kent and Medway Partnership
PERFORMANCE: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has admitted that it still has environment issues at one of its units.
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HSJ LocalSHA questions Luton and Bedfordshire QIPP plans
FINANCE: NHS East of England has raised a series of concerns over plans for quality and productivity savings by a primary care trust cluster in its region.
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Barking, Havering and Redbridge has until Friday to rectify maternity problems
PERFORMANCE: A Care Quality Commission inspection at the acute trust has found some of the equipment necessary for safe care, including devices for monitoring contractions were “unavailable, poorly maintained, or not working”.
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NewsConfederation appoints new chief executive
The NHS Confederation has announced that Mike Farrar is to be its new chief executive.
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HSJ Local
Mid Essex approves social enterprise
STRUCTURE: NHS Mid Essex’s board has approved the primary care trust’s provider arm application to form as a social enterprise.
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CQC raises new concerns at Milton Keynes Hospital
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has recognised progress in Milton Keynes Hospital’s midwifery services, but said the trust fails to meet essential standards in other areas
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Barnsley consortia 'can't become pathfinders'
STRUCTURE: Two GP groups within Barnsley cannot become pathfinders because of they are not geographically defined, their primary care trust has reported. It has established a GP commissioning transition group as a formal sub-committee of its board.
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HSJ Local
PCT agrees transfer of entire estate to aspirant CFT
COMMERCIAL: An aspirant community foundation trust on the south coast has launched a bid to take over the entire estates of its two commissioning primary care trusts.
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Front line 'must be NHS priority'
Health minister Simon Burns has insisted that the NHS must make frontline services a “priority” as new figures were released by a union showing clinical staff accounting for half of planned job losses in the health service.
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NewsClegg aide threatens to quit over reforms
One of Nick Clegg’s closest allies has threatened to quit unless the government slows down the pace of its controversial NHS reforms.
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NewsTrusts in royal wedding pay row
More than 100 trusts in England are refusing to give enhanced pay rates to staff who work on the day of the royal wedding later this month, union leaders have complained.
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NewsCapita to buy Tribal's health business
Tribal is to set to sell its health and government business to rivals Capita for £15.87m, it has been announced.
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HSJ KnowledgeReal liberation: getting social enterprise right
Last year, City Health Care Partnership in Hull overcame prejudice to become the first social enterprise to go live through the right to request scheme. Andrew Burnell explains.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy the social enterprise model could still transform community services
The plans for social enterprises to provide £900m of community services is in danger of being an opportunity missed. But special adviser to NHS Alliance Mo Girach thinks we shouldn’t throw in the towel quite yet.
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HSJ Local
Southport and Ormskirk plans £8.6m savings for 2011-12
FINANCE: The trust aims to make efficiency savings of 5 per cent in 2011-12, or £8.6m, its draft budget for the year states.