All St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust articles – Page 17
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HSJ Local
St George's faces 'quality of data' issues with Cerner system
PERFORMANCE: The London teaching hospital went live with the Cerner Millenium system in March and its chief executive last month reported it is “facing issues with a large volume of data with no pathway ID and the quality of data”.
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HSJ Local
Seven compulsory redundancies at St George's, including one £100k settlement
WORKFORCE: The south London teaching hosital’s annual accounts showed seven compulsory redundancies in 2010-11.
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HSJ Local
Trust sells half its beds to rent them back
FINANCE: A hospital trust has sold half of its beds to a Dutch company for half a million pounds and is leasing them back, HSJ has discovered.
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HSJ Local
Interim chief executive for London trust
WORKFORCE: North West London Hospitals Trust has brought in former St George’s chief executive David Astley in an interim capacity.
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HSJ Local
St George's Healthcare misses its referral to treatment time target
PERFORMANCE: The south London acute saw 77.3 per cent of patients treated within 18 weeks of referral, against a national target of 90 per cent.
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HSJ Local
Nicholson says region's FT pipeline risks going backwards
STRUCTURE: Sir David Nicholson has written to the board of a strategic health authority saying “there is a real danger that by the end of 2011-12 many of these [trusts in the pipeline] will be a position where their ability to achieve FT by 2014 will have worsened”.
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HSJ Local
Minor concerns raised about nutrition standards at St George’s
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission said the trust passed standards relating to dignity and nutrition during a spot check, but improvements were needed to ensure performance was maintained on nutrition.
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HSJ Local
St George's says all clinical divisions must move to a profit
FINANCE: The minutes of the trust’s finance & investment committee said each of the clinical divisions had been asked to “improve profitability”.
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HSJ Local
London’s cost improvement programmes flatlined in last two months of 2010-11
FINANCE: St George’s Healthcare Trust ended the last financial year £5.4m behind plan because of failed savings plans and challenges from commissioners.
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Comment
London trusts encouraged by delayed 'drop dead' date for FT status
So what does the slackening off of the pressure behind the foundation trust pipeline mean for London, the most stubborn of regions in resisting an all-FT health service?
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HSJ Local
Acute trust announces its potential merger partners
STRUCTURE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospital Trust on the Surrey/London border has announced Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals Foundation Trust and the Royal Surrey County Hospital FT are interested in merging with Epsom Hospital, with St George’s Healthcare Trust interested in St Helier Hospital.
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HSJ Local
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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HSJ Local
Continued under-performance on ambulance handover times at London A&Es
PERFORMANCE: A strategic health authority report has revealed continued under-performance on ambulance handover times at the capital’s accident and emergency departments.
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HSJ Local
Moorfields selected to provide community opthamology services in SW London
STRUCTURE: The specialist trust has been chosen by commissioners to provide community eye services working out of its Queen Mary’s Roehampton and Teddington Memorial Hospital.
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HSJ Local
SW London cluster considers hospital pathology and pharmacy consolidation
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust cluster has launched a clinically-led review of services across the health economy and said consolidation options were being looked at across its acute trusts.
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HSJ Local
Withdrawn document lists amounts paid out by London's Challenged Trust Board
FINANCE: A report, now taken off the North Central London primary care trust cluster’s website, lists the pay-outs made to the capital’s challenged trusts - but indicated remaining debts of £422m
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HSJ Local
London's acute trusts achieving 82 per cent of their CIPs in Feb
FINANCE: A document submitted to NHS London’s delivery group in April itemises each trust against its savings target and found a capital-wide variance of £69m against plan - some trusts achieving less than half their target.
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HSJ Local
Figures reveal extent of funding gap for London specialist trusts
FINANCE: London trusts received £50m in funding last year to cover above tariff costs in specialist services, which they will not receive this year.
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HSJ Local
Chair of non-FT announces departure one week after chief exec
WORKFORCE: The chair of St George’s Healthcare Trust, Naaz Coker, is to step down in October, shortly after chief executive David Astley announced he was leaving.
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HSJ Local
Hospital chief executive steps down after board delays FT application
STRUCTURE: A London hospital trust chief executive has stepped down, saying the trust board’s decision to delay its foundation application “has led me to consider my position”.