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.
A “scandalous” neglect of older people’s mental health care needs to be addressed in the NHS long-term plan, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has argued.
A teaching hospital that ran up a deficit of more than £100m overstated the income it hoped to receive while significantly increasing staff numbers, a report has revealed.
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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