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 merger with Nottingham University Hospitals is “off the table”, the chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust has told HSJ, describing the relationship between the trusts as one of equals.
A hospital could suspend all elective procedures including cancer patients and those deemed clinically urgent under emergency proposals being discussed today as it grapples with significant nursing shortages.
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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