All London articles – Page 167
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NHS Lambeth could save £7.2m by eliminating Procedure of Limited Clinical Effectiveness
FINANCE: The inner London borough had the highest spend in its cluster on the procedures and intends to decommission the services as part of its Quality Innovation, Productivity and Prevention programme.
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King's College Hospital Foundation Trust misses MRSA target for 2010-11
PERFORMANCE: The south London acute trust has overshot its target threshold for the year by more than half.
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Hillingdon Hospital Trust was first in London to declare 'Critcon 2' in face of winter pressures
PERFORMANCE: The north west London trust had to declare the standard after deciding the situation met the criteria of “unprecedented pressure on critical care and the trust beginning to require external aid for ITU patients”.
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Staff from North East London Foundation Trust support hospital trust struggling with winter pressures
PERFORMANCE: Staff from Community Health Services, the provider arm of NHS Barking & Dagenham which NELFT now manages, are preparing extra beds in transitional and rehab units to take some of the strain from nearby Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust.
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT overperforming on PCT budget
FINANCE: A report from commissioners at NHS Hammersmith and Fulham found the acute trust was overperforming by £913,000 in the year-to-date.
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NewsFlory tells PCTs to give providers leeway over winter pressures
Commissioners have been urged to adjust their payments to hospital trusts struggling to deal with winter pressures on emergency care.
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NewsThree per cent of public health funds could go to Mayor
The Mayor of London could take three percent of the money allocated to councils for public health in the capital.
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NHS Barnet approves transfer of Barnet Community Services
STRUCTURE: The provider arm of the north London primary care trust is due to transfer to aspirant community foundation trust Central London Community Healthcare in April.
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NHS Harrow will not be out of deficit by the 2014-15
FINANCE: According to the north-west London sector Quality, Improvement, Productivty and Prevention plan, NHS Harrow will still be running a deficit even when the rest of the sector has taken £270m of spending out of the area’s acute sector.
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NHS Hillingdon to cut medicine spend with local acute by £2.7m in 2011-12
FINANCE: The commissioning body is anticipating the saving after negotiating a medicines management agreement with Hillingdon Hospital.
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NHS Redbridge plans to target the 20 biggest users of A&E
FINANCE: The primary care trust hopes to save £100,000 in the first quarter of 2011-12 with the scheme.
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London ambulance staff are 'at risk' by having to use computer while driving
PERFORMANCE: A major accident has been rated “likely” by the risk managers at the London Ambulance Service because staff working in rapid-response cars “need to read and manually action the Mobile Data Terminal whilst driving at speed through traffic”.
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NHS Barking and Dagenham puts forward two pathfinders
STRUCTURE: Two NHS Barking and Dagenham GP practice clusters are applying for pathfinder status.
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NewsLast of London's contentious reconfigurations set to be approved
The last of the capital’s contentious hospital reconfiguration plans is due to be approved by its strategic health authority next week.
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NewsTrusts battle for right to absorb smaller non-FTs
Two London hospital trusts, one of which is struggling with a large private finance initiative, are competing to swallow up two smaller trusts.
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NewsAudit Commission issues public interest report on struggling acute trust
The Audit Commission today issued a public interest report declaring an acute trust had “failed to meet its statutory financial duty” to break even over the five-year period ending last March.
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NewsTrust in breach of six CQC standards
One of the Department of Health’s seven “financially challenged” trusts has been found in breach of standards in six separate areas by the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsMan held over hospital staff attack
A man is being held by police in connection with an attack at a hospital that left two staff members and five patients injured.
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NewsNHS London buys in support for consortia development
NHS London has contracted a KPMG-led partnership to support consortia development.
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NewsChief execs at two "challenged trusts" change roles
The leaders at two of the capital’s “challenged trusts” have changed roles, with one leaving for the strategic health authority and the other taking his place.