South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 341
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NewsDelayed discharges worsen despite NHSE’s reduction targets
The number of patients in hospitals who are ‘medically fit’ to leave has increased in January, despite NHS England targets for trusts to dramatically reduce the numbers.
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CommentWe should be horrified by the early deaths of those living with mental illness
Since the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health was published in 2016, delivery of physical health checks has remained significantly below the 60 per cent target. There is an urgent need to provide enhanced care for this particularly high-risk group, writes Mark Winstanley
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NewsChair to lead second acute trust
An experienced former trust chief executive has taken on an additional role as chair, nearly 80 miles away from his current trust.
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NewsDaily Insight: No quick cure for procurement
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsIan Dodge to leave NHS England
A national director and long-serving NHS England board member is to step down from his role later this year, in what is the organisation’s third senior departure to be announced this month.
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: ‘Chicken and egg situation’ at trust’s ED
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentThe buy-out is the existential threat to the NHS
NHS does face real and existential danger - not from a sudden ‘sell-off’, but rather from the ‘buy-out’. And it is happening, uncontested, before our eyes, writes Chris Thomas
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HSJ LocalTrust chief to retire after four decades in NHS
The chief executive of Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust has announced she will retire in April.
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NewsSupply chain problems and EU exit delay key tech and building projects
The impact of Brexit and continuing disruption to global supply chains have been cited by several trusts as causing delays or issues for crucial capital projects.
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HSJ PartnersClinically led peer-to-peer service development: An opportunity to redefine future cancer care
This is paid-for content from our commercial partners. Find out more This article was organised and fully funded by Bristol Myers Squibb, and developed in collaboration by BMS and HSJ. This article has no promotional intent. Bristol Myers Squibb does not intend to encourage the ...
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HSJ PartnersCovid-19 prompts Foundation Trust to expand medical device integration
Clinical computing hubs help Trust move from episodic monitoring to continuous integrated surveillance without adding to clinician burden or increasing labor costs
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NewsRevealed: The evidence which shows poorer and ethnic minority patients wait longer for NHS care
The significantly longer waiting times suffered by patients from minority ethnic groups and in more deprived areas for a range of elective procedures have been laid bare in NHS analysis shared with HSJ.
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NewsThe Primer: Back to the foundations
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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News‘We have done our own risk assessments’: the NHS staff defying the vaccine mandate
NHS workers protesting against the requirement for all patient-facing staff to be vaccinated against covid have told HSJ the government is relying on “brute force” to push the “soul destroying” measure through and that it sets a “dangerous precedent” which could undermine the principle of “informed consent”.
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NewsExclusive: Bullying, sexism and racism ‘prevalent and tolerated’ at national regulator
An external review into the national safety watchdog has revealed ‘damaging’ cultural problems, including bullying, sexism and racism which go ‘right to the top of the organisation’.
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HSJ LocalCCG opens ‘care hotel’ after critical incident
A hotel in the centre of Norwich is temporarily being converted into a care facility to help ease local bed pressures, as Norfolk becomes the latest area to pilot the model.
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NewsOnly four in 10 covid inpatients in London have the disease as their ‘primary diagnosis’
Only 41 per cent of covid positive patients in London hospitals are being primarily treated for the disease, according to official data released yesterday.
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NewsDaily Insight: Exit, pursued by a restructure
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Shelf lives, epic sagas and final thoughts
Your essential update on health for the week.
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News‘Babies at risk’ as NHS faces losing nearly one in 10 midwives over mandatory jabs
The NHS could be forced to dismiss almost 2,000 midwives by the government’s mandatory vaccination policy, amid warnings from a former chief nurse of England that mothers and babies will be put at risk.