All London articles – Page 144
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HSJ Local
Hospital trust asks staff to consider working unpaid after recording £4.5m deficit at month five
WORKFORCE: Whipps Cross University Hospital has asked staff to consider sacrificing leave and do extra unpaid work, a leaked letter reveals.
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HSJ Local
Guy's breaching private patient cap after twins procedure
FINANCE: The south London foundation trust reported that it had breached its private patient cap of 3.04 per cent this year.
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HSJ Local
UCLH cancer centre to open next year
STRUCTURE: The central London foundation trust’s £100m specialist cancer centre is due to open next April.
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HSJ Local
Guy's and St Thomas' expecting to exceed activity plans by £5.8m
FINANCE: The south London foundation trust’s finance report said the £987m-turnover organisation’s predicted over-performance had grown by £900,000 since the previous month.
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HSJ Local
Kingston says most year-plus elective waits have already been treated
PERFORMANCE: The south west London hospital trust recorded the worst elective admission rates for people waiting more than a year in June.
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HSJ Local
Croydon Health Services planning work around discharge delays
PERFORMANCE: The outer London integrated care organisation is planning a “significant piece of business process reengineering” to reduce delays in getting medication for patients to take home.
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HSJ Local
Whittington pressure ulcers rates down
PERFORMANCE: The incidence of the most serious pressure ulcers has fallen at the north London integrated care organisation.
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HSJ Local
Commissioners to investigate pressure ulcer rates at Barnet and Chase Farm
PERFORMANCE: The north central London primary care trust cluster is to raise the high number of pressure ulcers reported at Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals at its next clinical quality review meeting.
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HSJ Local
London commissioning cluster predicts deficit for 2011-12
FINANCE: The north central London cluster is predicting a deficit of £14.8m this financial year, new documents reveal.
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HSJ Local
South London Healthcare Trust reports £3.3m savings shortfall
FINANCE: The south east London acute trust was aiming for savings of £6.8m by the end of month five but missed that by £3.3m.
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HSJ Local
Pathfinder complains over London's use of McKinsey
COMMERCIAL: London’s strategic health authority has received a complaint from a GP commissioning group about the use of consultancy firm McKinsey.
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CommentCircle-style deal for London specialist?
Most regions have a few smaller specialist trusts and London is no exception.
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HSJ Local
Whittington revises down CIP target by nearly a third
FINANCE: The north London integrated care organisation has reduced its CIP target from £6.9m to £4.7m, its finance director reported to the board.
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HSJ Local
Imperial 'optimistic' in aiming for £40.3m deficit
FINANCE: The west London hospital trust submitted a plan predicting a £40.3m deficit at the end of the year, a board report confirmed.
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News
Commissioning support costs for CCGs emerging with variations
Indications have emerged of planned expenditure on commissioning support. London primary care trusts are predicting costs of £16 per head of population – £5 more than their counterparts in Coventry and Warwickshire, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Commissioning cluster identifies services to be considered for AQP
FINANCE: The north central London commissioning cluster has identified four areas where it thinks there is scope to apply Any Qualified Provider rules next year.
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HSJ Local
GPs tell deaf patients to pay for own sign language interpreters
PERFORMANCE: GPs in Haringey have attracted criticism after telling deaf patients they must pay for their own sign language interpreters at consultations.
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HSJ Local
Kingston Hospital to look at ways to improve HCA morale
WORKFORCE: The south west London trust is to examine ways to improve morale and lower sickness absence in its healthcare assistant workforce.
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HSJ Local
King's College Hospital savings plan hitting 90 per cent so far
FINANCE: The south London trust reported in its July report that it had achieved £4.5m in savings at month three of the financial year, 90 per cent of those planned.
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HSJ Local
Royal Brompton & Harefield Trust judicial review to start this week
STRUCTURE: The central London specialist trust is due to start its judical review hearing in the High Court on Tuesday.