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.
Two NHS trusts are defying a private company which is approaching NHS organisations asking them to buy an additional fee to use TVs on wards.
Radiology failings at a teaching hospital led to eight patients coming to severe harm, with three dying, a hospital trust has admitted.
A union is balloting its members over strike action at a hospital trust, amid claims the number of staff cleaning theatres is being cut.
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.
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