All London articles – Page 138
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HSJ Local
GSTT see steady rise in A&E attendances over past three years
PERFORMANCE: The latest figures from the south London acute show higher numbers of attendances daily this year than last year, for each of the three calendar quarters.
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HSJ Local
St George's puts in formal bid for St Helier
STRUCTURE: The south London acute trust was the only bidder to make a formal approach to Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust to run St Helier Hospital.
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HSJ Local
Lewisham Healthcare above average for claims
PERFORMANCE: The south London trust’s number of in-year negligence claims per 10,000 bed days was 2.52 against a national mean of 1.37.
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HSJ Local
Whittington plans to split benefits of contract 50:50 with GPs
STRUCTURE: The Whittington Health Trust plans to split the benefits of a block contract scheme 50:50 with local GP commissioners, according to its latest strategy document.
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SupplementsA blueprint for improving hepatitis C services in London
Hepatitis C is a growing problem in London but many sufferers are not getting the care they need. This special supplement, from Kosh Agarwal and colleagues’ at the London Joint Working Group for Substance misuse and Hepatitis C, outlines a blueprint for treating the disease.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: prominent CCG chair fears DH will impose 200,000 population minimum
STRUCTURE: An emerging London clinical commissioning group and its patient forum are lobbying the health secretary to protect it from forced merger, after the CCG’s chair raised concerns.
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CommentReview of London trusts reveals fears for safety
By now everyone in London’s heard of the SaFE review. NHS London commissioned consultants McKinsey to put together the Safe and Financially Effective paper and it has sat on desks for a few weeks at Southside. It’s explosive.
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HSJ Local
New chair for London hospital
WORKFORCE: Kingston Hospital Trust has appointed a new chair.
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HSJ Local
Hillingdon Hospital's chief operating officer moves to West Middlesex
WORKFORCE: Julie Wright will undertake a year’s secondment to West Middlesex University Hospital as director of nursing and midwifery.
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HSJ Local
Imperial expansion at WMUH mooted
STRUCTURE: An estates strategy produced by West Middlesex University Hospital Trust said an option to “sweat assets” included “the expansion and transfer of the renal service provided on site by Imperial Healthcare Trust to the fourth floor of east wing”.
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HSJ Local
West Middlesex paying £4.2m a year in interest
FINANCE: The west London trust, which has an annual turnover of £149m, is paying £3.4m a year interest on its PFI and £800k for a DH loan.
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HSJ Local
New UCC due to open at West Middlesex University Hospital in January
STRUCTURE: The new urgent care centre will be managed by Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust for a year while NHS Hounslow decides on a longer-term provider
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HSJ Local
Three London FTs consider full merger
STRUCTURE: King’s College Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ and South London and Maudlsey Mental Health foundation trusts are considering a full merger, it has been revealed.
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HSJ Local
North London bid for integrated cancer system stronger than rival
STRUCTURE: An assessment has concluded that north London’s proposed integrated cancer system is marginally stronger than that put forward by the south and west of the capital.
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HSJ Local
South west London PCTs book readmission money as savings
FINANCE: All but one of NHS South West London cluster’s PCTs booked money not paid to trusts under the readmission rule as savings, minutes said.
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HSJ Local
Epsom and St Helier misses unplanned re-attendance target
PERFORMANCE: The south-west London trust missed the new A&E standard for unplanned re-attendance in September, with a rate of 7.3 per cent against a target of 5 per cent.
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HSJ Local
Epsom and St Helier £12.6m deficit £870k off-plan
FINANCE: The south London/Surrey borders hospital trust reported being nearly £1m off-plan, as of month six.
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NewsExclusive: equality concern as eight in 10 CCGs led by men
An HSJ analysis has revealed the great majority of emerging clinical commissioning groups are led by men.
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HSJ Local
Cluster can only make three-quarters of planned QIPP savings in 2011-12
FINANCE: The outer north west London cluster is behind target on its savings because of problems at NHS Ealing.
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HSJ Local
NHS Ealing breaches HCAI targets
PERFORMANCE: The west London primary care trust, NHS Ealing, has doubled its MRSA target and quadrupled its C difficile target for the year.