WORKFORCE: The south London teaching hosital’s annual accounts showed seven compulsory redundancies in 2010-11.
The report showed one of the seven received an “exit package (including any special payment element)” of between £100,000 and £150,000.
The seven compulsory redundancies cost £309,000 in total, up from the £10,000 spent on one compulsory redundancy in 2009-10.
Annual accounts (see attached, right)
June 2011
WORKFORCE: A new chief executive has been appointed to a large non-foundation trust in London.
A doctor who “performed a public service” by securing whistleblower protection for junior doctors has withdrawn his claim he was unfairly dismissed from a London trust for whistleblowing.
Implementing the forthcoming long term plan for the NHS will require up to £13bn in IT spending over the next five years, according to official estimates, HSJ can reveal.
NHS Improvement has announced the panel of experts to oversee a London teaching trust’s ongoing efforts to sort out its “dysfunctional” cardiac surgical service.
Fifteen patients have come to severe harm after a London trust with long standing record keeping problems lost track of their appointments.
A major teaching hospital is still working to improve its heart surgery unit after high infection rates and a larger than expected number of deaths.
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