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.
The figure for 2010-11 was contained in the Department of Health’s report on the whole of the financial year, titled The Quarter.
St George’s was one of 16 trusts nationally that missed four or more targets associated with the 18 week RTT target.
June 2011
WORKFORCE: A new chief executive has been appointed to a large non-foundation trust in London.
The Care Quality Commission found standards have dropped at a struggling emergency department where a nurse told inspectors: “We don’t want to release the ambulances because we know they will return with more patients.”
Fresh concerns have been raised about how NHS England is conducting its controversial pilot of new accident and emergency standards.
A trust has reached an out-of-court settlement with a wrongly excluded senior surgeon and apologised for the “distress” the legal proceedings had caused her.
A teaching trust had to appeal to NHS Improvement for funding to ensure the safety of its “fragile” water system after two patients contracted legionella, HSJ can reveal.
A major teaching hospital in south London is refusing to release a long-awaited workforce investigation that was completed late last year.
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