South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 895
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Clinical Leader of the Year
Dr Claire Fuller: Surrey Downs Clinical Commissioning Group Dr Claire Fuller has provided excellent leadership during challenging times and ensured the CCG remained focused on improving patient care and quality. She led the redesign of the governance structure and created a new clinical cabinet and developed a GP future leader’s ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: International Health Partnership
Sponsored by NHS Employers Sponsored by THET The Butabika-East London Link: Partnership for Excellence This non-profit organisation developed the Butabika-East London Link partnership to improve the provision of mental health services in Uganda and the UK. The service users were trained and empowered to ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Most effective adoption and diffusion of existing best practice
Integrated Care Exeter Strategic Alliance: Integrated Care Exeter Wellbeing Exeter The team developed a programme to enhance the health and wellbeing of people by engaging them with their community and empowering people to self manage. Fifty four per cent of people involved in the programme showed improved mental health, ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Patient Safety
Sponsored by GS1 James Paget University Hospitals Foundation Trust: Kissing Goodbye Sepsis The team undertook initiatives to enable early identification and treatment of sepsis which included designing a new sepsis pathway, creating a sepsis recognition box and providing prompt cards and sepsis badges to staff. The number ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Primary Care Innovation
eConsult The team introduced a tool that allows GPs to remotely triage and signpost patients to appropriate care pathways. The tool helped in solving 68 per cent of eConsultations remotely. Eighty per cent of patients were satisfied with the service. The judging panel were highly impressed with this model, saying ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Provider Trust of the Year
Sponsored by Celesio Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Foundation Trust Northumberland, Tyne and Wear developed a five year strategy and designed six strategic ambitions to deliver high quality care and enhance patient experience. The trust has received a rating of “Outstanding” from the ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Specialised Services Redesign
University Hospitals of North Midlands: The Largest UK Series – Mechanical Thrombectomy in Acute Ischaemic Stroke produces improved clinical outcomes and cost benefits The team wanted to improve patient safety and clinical outcomes, hence introduced a 24/7 service for mechanical extraction of brain blood clots. The mortality rates decreased ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Workforce
Sponsored by NHS Employers West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust: Maternity unit turnaround The team developed a recruitment and retention plan to improve the retention rates in the maternity unit. The project reduced the number of agency staff by more than half and cut agency costs from £100k ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Staff Engagement
Sponsored by de Poel health + care Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals Foundation Trust: Change Champions delivering culture change at Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch Hospitals The team initiated a culture change programme to improve the working environment for staff, empowering them to provide compassionate and high quality ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Supported Self Care
Sponsored by NHS England First Steps Derbyshire: Online Befriending Service The team developed a volunteer led Online Befriending project, allowing people at risk of or with an eating disorder to self refer and be supported by people with lived experience. One hundred per cent of service users ...
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NewsGovernment pledges £3.5bn capital to NHS over next five years
The Treasury has commited an extra £3.5bn to NHS capital spending over the next five years, with the service expected to raise the same sum itself through land sales.
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Leader'Which of the children do we shoot first?' - the budget leaves the NHS with harsh choices
The government has a very clear ambition for the £1.6bn additional funding allocated to the NHS for 2018-19. £1bn is to be used to arrest the decline in elective waiting times and to begin to reduce the waiting list; £600m will be employed to make sure the NHS meets the ...
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NewsNew money for pay rises in exchange for contract reform
New money will be set aside to fund a pay rise for more than 1 million NHS staff but only if unions agree to reform the Agenda for Change contract.
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NewsChancellor's funding announcement 'plugs some holes' in NHS budget
The chancellor has announced £2.5bn of extra revenue funding to be spread over the next two financial years, plus an in-year boost of £335m for winter pressures.
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NewsBabylon pilot was not pursued by CCGs
Commissioners in London have ditched a planned pilot of Babylon Health’s primary care app after patients in a test “tried speed up GP access, rather than [use] the symptom checker”.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Devo is go! (Subject to caveats)
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy.
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NewsHSJ Live 22.11.17: Twelve STP projects given £260m capital funding
Live coverage and reaction as chancellor Philip Hammond makes budget statement
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NewsCounty leaders plan major stroke service shake-up
Kent and Medway is hoping to become the first area to offer patients thrombectomy outside a neuroscience centre as part of a wider shake-up of stroke services, HSJ has learned.
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NewsDaily Insight: Half-time report
The must read stories and biggest talking points in health policy