All LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST articles – Page 10
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HSJ LocalCouncil to seek judicial review over Lewisham downgrade
STRUCTURE: Lewisham Council has voted unanimously to seek judicial review of the trust special administration process that saw Lewisham Hospital recommended for downgrade.
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HSJ Local
Largest hospital reconfiguration in England signed off by commissioners
The most significant proposed acute services reconfiguration in England has been approved by commissioners.
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NewsCollege of Emergency Medicine raises concern over Lewisham A&E plan
The College of Emergency Medicine has raised concerns over proposals for changes to Lewisham Hospital’s accident and emergency unit, and indicated they do not fit its definition of an emergency department.
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HSJ Local
Lewisham Healthcare Trust on course to miss Q4 A&E wait target
PERFORMANCE: Lewisham Healthcare Trust is on course to miss the A&E four-hour wait target of 95 per cent for quarter four, a report reveals.
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HSJ LocalLewisham Council gives Hunt deadline to backtrack on hospital downgrade
STRUCTURE: Lewisham Council has given Jeremy Hunt a deadline of February 22 to backtrack on the downgrade of Lewisham Hospital or face a judicial review.
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CommentMichael White: new thinking on hospital closures
The public and MPs are at odds over hospitals like Lewisham
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CommentMid Staffs' future now Francis has reported
Stafford needs a good local hospital for the future
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NewsMedics question rationale of Lewisham downgrade
The health secretary has approved plans to downgrade the first hospital using failure regime legislation. However, the downgrade is subject to conditions, the details of which remain unclear.
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HSJ LocalLewisham consultants ask Keogh for evidence over 'lives saved' claim
STRUCTURE: Senior clinicians from Lewisham Hospital have written to NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh to ask him to explain a statistic which Jeremy Hunt attributed to him about mortality at A&E departments.
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Lewisham decision sparks fresh debate on future NHS
The announcement that accident and emergency and maternity services are to be downgraded at Lewisham Hospital has sparked a fresh round of debate of the future of the NHS.
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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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NewsA&E 'overstretched', says Labour
Hospital accident and emergency departments are overstretched and understaffed with patients forced to wait in ambulances just to gain admission, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has said.
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CommentHunt's call on South London will affect the whole NHS
The impact will go far beyond Lewisham Hospital
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NewsGrounds for legal action if hospital downgrade approved, critics claim
A judicial review is likely if health secretary Jeremy Hunt approves plans to downgrade Lewisham Hospital, HSJ has learnt.
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NewsAnalysed: The fate of Lewisham Hospital
This week’s HSJ Local Briefing looks at the south east London health economy, which is the first to be subject to the failure regime.
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HSJ Local
Lewisham Healthcare Trust misses diagnostics targets
PERFORMANCE: Lewisham Healthcare Trust has missed the target for carrying out diagnostic tests in September and October, an NHS london report reveals.
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Doctors attack health trust plan
Plans to dissolve a debt-ridden health trust which was on the brink of bankruptcy could have a “devastating” effect on a financially stable trust nearby, doctors have said.
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NewsA&E closure 'can't be justified'
A damning report which demands a debt-ridden NHS trust is broken up must not be used to justify closing essential hospital services, a senior Labour MP has said.
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NewsKershaw backs dissolution of South London Healthcare
South London Healthcare Trust should be dissolved, its special administrator recommended this morning.
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HSJ Local
Lewisham Hospital better than average on coding
FINANCE: A report to the south east London primary care trust cluster said: “Lewisham Healthcare Trust with a clinical coding Healthcare Resource Grouping error rate of 7.2 per cent, was better than the national average.”