All NORTH MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL NHS TRUST articles – Page 10
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NewsHospital mergers have little benefit, study suggests
Waiting times have risen and financial performance has declined at NHS hospitals following mergers, a study has found.
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Revealed: the six trusts that need DH support with their PFI
Six hospital trusts have been identified as needing Department of Health cash support with their private finance initiative payments in order to make foundation trust status, HSJ can reveal.
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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
Only four maternity units in London meet consultant labour ward requirements
WORKFORCE: A report from NHS London has outlined significant shortfalls in consultant presence in labour wards.
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HSJ Local
London community trust faces loss of quarter of turnover
COMMERCIAL: An aspirant community foundation trust could be stripped of a quarter of its business to support a new hospital trust emerging from demerger of Barnet and Chase Farm hospitals.
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NewsLansley identifies 20 'unsustainable' trusts
The government has identified 20 trusts whose “clinical and financial stability is at risk” because of “cash-flow shortages” and legacy debt.
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HSJ LocalChase Farm to remain open but loses A&E unit
STRUCTURE: The health secretary has rubber stamped plans to downgrade Chase Farm Hospital’s emergency department and take forward a possible merger with North Middlesex University Hospital Trust.
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NewsExclusive: 500 avoidable deaths a year in London due to understaffing
There are more than 500 avoidable deaths a year in emergency care each year in London, a report obtained exclusively by HSJ reveals.
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HSJ Local
London trust wide of the mark on waiting times
PERFORMANCE: More than half of patients seen at North Middlesex University Hospital Trust in June had waited more than 18 weeks for treatment.
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CommentGrounds for optimism at last over London reconfiguration
It appears the NHS in London might get its wish on downgrading two hospitals.
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HSJ Local
Lansley 'will back merger of Chase Farm and North Middlesex hospitals'
STRUCTURE: HSJ understands Andrew Lansley will recommend Chase Farm Hospital is merged with a neighbouring trust.
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NewsLansley's delay to reconfiguration 'risks patient safety'
A London acute trust chair has said “specious” delays to a reconfiguration have increased risks to patient safety.
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CommentReconfiguration pressures mounting in London
A report is sat on Andrew Lansley’s desk offering recommendations about the future of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield.
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HSJ Local
Decisions on the organisational form of seven London trusts due in September
STRUCTURE: Seven London acute trusts are due to have decisions made about their future organisational form in September, an NHS London planning document says.
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HSJ Local
Barnet and Chase Farm report on Lansley's desk
STRUCTURE: The Department of Health has confirmed it has received the Independent Reconfiguration Panel’s report into hospital configuration in north London.
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HSJ Local
North Middlesex University Hospital addresses Legionella risk
PERFORMANCE: The north London trust has transferred responsibility for maintaining its water system to contractors Ecovert and water samples are being tested regularly in response to high levels of Legionella being identified.
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HSJ Local
Nicholson says region's FT pipeline risks going backwards
STRUCTURE: Sir David Nicholson has written to the board of a strategic health authority saying “there is a real danger that by the end of 2011-12 many of these [trusts in the pipeline] will be a position where their ability to achieve FT by 2014 will have worsened”.
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HSJ Local
CQC success for North Middlesex University Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission said the trust passed both of the standards relating to dignity and nutrition during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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CommentLondon trusts encouraged by delayed 'drop dead' date for FT status
So what does the slackening off of the pressure behind the foundation trust pipeline mean for London, the most stubborn of regions in resisting an all-FT health service?