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London Ambulance Service Trust performance buckles in December
PERFORMANCE: London Ambulance Service Trust missed response and handover time targets in December, board papers reveal.
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Epsom and St Helier Hospitals on course to meet A&E target
PERFORMANCE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust is at 97.2 per cent on the four-hour A&E target, on-track to meet national targets.
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Five per cent rise in healthcare assistants in London hospitals
WORKFORCE: Londoon’s acute trusts saw a 5.7 per cent rise in the number of healthcare assistants they employed from 2010-11 to 2011-12.
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NewsHSJ live: rolling news 1.2.2013
Maternity unit temporarily closes as police investigation sparks hike in staff absence - and the rest of today’s news
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Staffing crisis prompts transfer of troubled maternity unit
WORKFORCE: The troubled Furness General Hospital’s consultant-led maternity services are to be temporarily moved to a neighbouring county in a bid to avert potentially dangerous levels of understaffing.
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NewsIan Dalton quits NHS Commissioning Board for BT
Ian Dalton, the NHS Commissioning Board’s deputy chief executive, is leaving the organisation to join BT Global Health.
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NewsHunt compromises on Lewisham Hospital downgrade
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a compromise solution to the downgrade of services at Lewisham Hospital.
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NewsAt least 10 PCTs to be bailed out by peers in 2012-13
At least 10 primary care trusts would face finishing 2012-13 in the red without loans or bailouts from their neighbouring commissioners, HSJ research has found.
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NewsJoin tech revolution or face 'serious repercussions', hospitals told
Hospitals face “very serious repercussions” if they do not have electronic patient records systems in place by 2014-15, the NHS Commissioning Board’s national director for patients and information warned last night.
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NewsCare 'could consume half spending'
Health and social care could consume half of government spending in 50 years’ time, the King’s Fund has predicted.
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News'No correlation found' between quality and responsiveness to online complaints
Researchers have found no correlation between trusts’ responsiveness to online complaints and the quality of patients’ experience.
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NewsCCGs warned not to penalise mental health success
Clinical commissioning groups have been warned not to “reward failure” by siphoning money away from mental health services to support struggling acute trusts.
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LeaderCCGs' financial fears resurface
Leaders’ “worst dream” of recurring deficits is far from over.
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Ashford and St Peter’s has HSMR of 103
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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East Sussex has HSMR of 101
PERFORMANCE: East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust performed slightly below expected for patient mortality rates, according to this year’s Dr Foster “hospital guide”.
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NewsHSJ live: Reaction and analysis: Lewisham to retain a 'smaller' A&E unit
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced Lewisham Hospital will retain a smaller accident and emergency unit, with 24/7 “senior medical cover”, following advice from NHS medical director Bruce Keogh.South London Healthcare Trust will be dissolved by October 2013.
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NewsHunt gives hints on Francis response
The government’s response to the Francis report will set out how patient voice will be “at the heart” of what the NHS does in future, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has revealed.
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NewsExclusive: Leaked DH report signals national A&E shakeup
National officials are considering a major reorganisation of emergency services, including designating units as either “999 emergency departments” or “111 emergency departments”.
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Pennine Acute slashes surplus forecast
FINANCE: Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust has cut its forecast surplus for 2012-13 from £5.7m down to just £25,000, strategic health authority board papers show.
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Stockport FT placed in significant breach over A&E target
PERFORMANCE: Stockport Foundation Trust has been found in significant breach of its terms of authorisation for “successive failure” to meet national accident and emergency waiting standards.