All UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST articles – Page 18
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HSJ Local
Barnet and Chase Farm 'concerned' over cardiovascular reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: The trust responded to a consultation on plans for cardviovascular reconfiguration in London, saying it had “little confidence in the ability of a centralised project to produce a responsive service”.
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HSJ Local
NHS Enfield predicting £11.2m deficit for year-end
FINANCE: The north east London primary care trust reported managing to hold its deficit to £10.6m in December, the same as October and November.
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HSJ Local
Patient choice sees UCLH bust target for maternity work
PERFORMANCE: Patients choosing to have their post and antenatal care and delivery at University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust and the high Market Forces Factor at the trust have seen it over-perform against target for one primary care trust.
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News
Trusts battle for right to absorb smaller non-FTs
Two London hospital trusts, one of which is struggling with a large private finance initiative, are competing to swallow up two smaller trusts.
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News
Chiefs urge further talks as unions reject pay deal
Trusts are hoping to continue talks on a proposal to freeze pay increments and offer greater job security for staff despite it being dismissed by the main health unions involved.
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News
PCT restricts doctors from making 'expensive, non-urgent referrals' to London providers
A primary care trust has told clinicians it must approve any referrals to London trusts because of the extra expense involved.
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Latest Dr Foster guide reveals hospital trusts with high death rates
Death rates at 19 hospital trusts in England were alarmingly high last year, according to the latest Dr Foster Hospital Guide.
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Olympics corporate sponsorship a 'challenge' to public health
The line-up of likely fast food and alcohol sponsors to the London 2012 Olympic Games represents a public health “challenge”, the NHS lead for the event has said.
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News
Infant deaths prompt deep clean at UCH
A leading hospital has said it had stepped up cleaning and taken other measures after four premature babies were found to be infected with a an infection resistant to common antibiotics.
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News
UCLH says acute care centralisation is better
London’s controversial centralisation programme is delivering lifesaving benefits to patients, according to one of England’s largest foundation trusts.
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News
Risk linked to surgery volume
Mortality rates can be up to three times higher for a common operations at smaller, low volume acute trusts than at their larger neighbours in the same region, research published by NHS London suggests.
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News
Cameron's bonus cap exempts many NHS managers on top salaries
David Cameron’s move to restrict the salaries of senior NHS managers will not affect the best paid but could encourage trusts to outsource cheaper labour, HSJ has been told.
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UCLH plan to rescue Barts from PFI crisis
Senior managers in London are cooking up an ambitious plan to rescue Barts and the Royal London Trust from its unaffordable £1bn private finance initiative deal.
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NHS trust pioneers land purchase
An acute trust is set to become the first in the country to use compulsory purchase powers to acquire land.
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Senior pay: gap narrows in FT board level salary advantage
Board directors at foundation trusts are still leading the “NHS pay league” but the rest of the service is catching up, latest figures have revealed.
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HSJ Knowledge
Behavioural training: there's a new show in town
High-tech training at a leading foundation trust is giving staff enhanced skills to cope with stress. Helen Mooney reports
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Comment
Jon Restell: could the NHS ever be like this?
People tell me I am good at predictions, so here is my month by month forecast for 2010.
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News
Tension as a Monitor chair still not named
Foundation trusts and the Monitor board have raised concerns that the government has not yet appointed a chair for the regulator, with less than three months until its current executive chair leaves the organisation.
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News
NHS hospital equipment 'under-used' - Taxpayers' Alliance
Hospitals are failing to make use of sophisticated and expensive treatment technology, the Taxpayers’ Alliance has claimed.
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News
NHS job cut warning: a 1 per cent pay increase equals 10,000 jobs
Senior NHS managers have called for a pay freeze from 2011 together with a “fundamental review” of staff terms and conditions in the face of expected financial constraints.