All London articles – Page 160
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Whipps Cross chief exec steps down to work on merger plan
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust has announced she is to step down.
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Guy's and St Thomas's A and E under pressure
PERFORMANCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust went on to “red status” for the first time ever for emergency admissions in January.
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Agency spend rises at Guy's and St Thomas'
WORKFORCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is hiring 250 nurses after noting a “worrying” increasing dependency on temporary staff.
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NewsChallenged hospitals funds used to bail out PCTs
Nearly 40 per cent of a £392m fund set up to pay off the historic debts of London’s financially challenged organisations has been used to bail out commissioners.
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Newham PCT on course to beat surplus target
FINANCE: Newham PCT is on course to deliver a surplus of more than £7m this year, exceeding its target by over £1.6m, despite overspends in acute commissioning.
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Newham PCT considers drug service contract
COMMERCIAL: NHS Newham has chosen to tender its drug abuse services after admitting that its existing services are failing.
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NewsCommissioning Support for London to be closed
An agency that has received nearly £70m to support London’s commissioners is being shut down after just two years in existence.
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NewsTrauma system delay deaths 'unnecessary'
Patients died unnecessarily because establishing a centralised trauma system in the capital took too long, according to the chief executive of NHS London.
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Comment'GPs run the risk of alienating themselves from their colleagues'
As the BMA gears up for a crisis meeting to debate the Health Bill, the chair of its consultant and specialists committee voices his fears of a huge split between members - and a ‘seething cauldron’ of competing providers in the future.
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Moorfields abandons Abu Dhabi expansion plan
COMMERCIAL: Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust has abandoned a plan to expand its Dubai operation into Abu Dhabi.
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UCLH busts target on MRSA cases
PERFORMANCE: University College Hospitals Foundation Trust has exceeded its MRSA target for 2010-11, but regulator Monitor has chosen not to take action over the issue.
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NHS London hand-out gives Haringey chance of breakeven
FINANCE: Haringey Teaching Primary Care Trust was allocated £28m from the NHS London Challenged Trust Board to cover a forecast out-turn deficit of £28.2m.
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IT failure at UCLH closed A&E unit and led to surgery cancellation
PERFORMANCE: University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust had to cancel operations and close an accident and emergency department to blue light traffic as a result of an IT failure.
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NHS Haringey risks rise in acute activity by cutting community posts
WORKFORCE: Haringey Teaching Primary Care Trust has drawn up plans to save money by axing posts in its intermediate care and community services, and altering its paediatric dentistry provision
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Epsom and St Helier will not hit A&E target
PERFORMANCE: The Surrey borders trust admitted in a board paper that it cannot now hit the 2010-11 target percentage for A&E waits of less than four hours.
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NewsTariff weighting could 'reduce' trust mergers - King's Fund
Paying a higher tariff rate to trusts with larger capital costs could reduce the need for hospital reconfigurations, a report from the King’s Fund has claimed.
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'Stark' differences in capital's chlamydia screening effectiveness
PERFORMANCE: An NHS London report has highlighted “stark” differences in the effectiveness of chlamydia screening programmes across its primary care trusts.
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Patients who should have been discharged kept unnecessarily in mental health wards
PERFORMANCE: Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust saw the number of delayed transfer of care nearly double in one borough because of a lack of suitable accomodation for patients with ongoing care needs.
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Tavistock and Portman FT £721,000 behind income target but still on track for surplus
FINANCE; The specialist mental health trust said at month 10, January, its surplus of £259,000 was behind budget also, by £159,000.
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'Concerns' over quality monitoring meetings with NHS Hounslow cluster
PERFORMANCE: Minutes of a board meeting at West Middlesex University Hospital said chief executive Jacqueline Docherty noted “a number of staff from Hounslow [had been] appointed to senior positions” in the cluster and “advised the board there are concerns that the current quality monitoring meetings are not as effective as ...