South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1051
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News
Regional health powers included in Liverpool devolution bid
The Liverpool City Region has declared it wants to explore taking greater control of health functions, including creating a ‘local leadership role’ for ‘performance oversight’.
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News
Monitor: High bed occupancy to blame for worst A&E performance in a decade
The worst accident and emergency performance against the four hour target in more than 10 years was due to hospitals struggling with very high bed occupancy rates, Monitor has concluded.
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News
NHS cyber crime response team launched
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has created an ‘emergency response team’ to help NHS bodies affected by cyber crime.
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HSJ Local
Snap inspection triggered by staffing concerns at Staffordshire hospital
WORKFORCE: Staff shortages at St George’s Hospital in Stafford have raised concerns that it is unable to provide care that adequately meets patients’ needs, a Care Quality Inspection has found.
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News
Three more trusts snub national pay agreement
Three more trusts have decided to go against a government approved national pay agreement and award their senior staff a 1 per cent pay rise in line with lower level staff, HSJ has discovered.
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Comment
Scottish waiting times spiral upwards despite recovery efforts
Scottish outpatient waits are still going up like a rocket but tackling them effectively will pile further pressure on the higher profile treatment time guarantee
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News
Exclusive: Nearly a third of CCGs consider rationing services
Nearly a third of clinical commissioning groups have implemented or are considering restrictions to services this year, HSJ research reveals.
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Blogs
Five Myths about the Austerity Diet
What sort of weight loss diet involves hacking off a limb? The public sector austerity diet.
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News
Executive Summary: The summer holidays are over
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Hunt: Patients to access entire record online by 2018
Jeremy Hunt has formally announced that patients will be able to access their entire medical record online by 2018.
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News
Catch up: Stevens' and Hunt's Expo 2015 speeches
The key points from speeches in Manchester by the NHS England chief executive and the health secretary
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HSJ Local
Cannock Chase CCG reports £2m in-year deficit
FINANCE: Cannock Chase Clinical Commissioning Group has reported a deficit of £2.06m in the financial year to July, £12,000 lower than planned.
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Comment
Why the NHS must evaluate complex service changes
To maximise benefits for patients and minimise costs
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HSJ Knowledge
Dalton: The NHS needs a best practice recipe to prosper across the board
Standardise operating systems and clinical pathways
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HSJ Local
Legal action delays hearings against Morecambe Bay midwives
Fitness to practise hearings against five midwives from the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust have been delayed because of legal action by their defence lawyers, HSJ has learned.
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News
Exclusive: DH bailouts rocket to £1.2bn as hospital finances crash
The Department of Health paid out £1.2bn in bailouts in 2014-15, to help more than 50 troubled NHS providers pay wages and creditors, replace aging equipment and cut deficits, HSJ analysis has found.
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News
Revealed: 11 trusts whose DH bailouts were converted to loans
The Department of Health obliged some of the most seriously troubled hospitals in the NHS to receive their bailouts in the form of ‘loans’ last year, DH figures show.
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News
NHS England launches £5m drive to improve staff health
NHS England will work with Public Health England to raise the standard of food served in hospitals and other care settings as part of a £5m initiative to boost the health and wellbeing of health service staff.
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HSJ Knowledge
Seven day services: Setting up shop on the high street
What GPs can learn from vet practices