South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1122
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CommentThe real provider sector deficit is nearer £4bn than £3bn
We face a choice for 2018-19 and 2019-20 of investing more in the NHS in those years or reducing the service we provide to meet the budget available, Chris Hopson writes
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News'No convincing plan' for NHS to save £22bn, says scathing report
PAC accuses government of being too slow to address hospital deficits “Not yet a convincing plan” for closing the £22bn efficiency gap by 2020-21, report says “Unacceptable” for officials to blame excessive agency costs as source of trusts’ difficulties Data used by Carter review to assess hospital efficiency was ...
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NewsSamantha Jones: ‘Only the strongest vanguards will get extra funding’
Samantha Jones says “not all of the vanguards will get access to transformation funding” Funding in 2016-17 will be similar to previous year’s £200m pot “Voluntary contract” for multispecialty community providers to be published in coming months Ms Jones says some vanguards could drop out next year Next ...
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NewsDepartment of Health communications boss to leave
The Department of Health’s director of communications, Sam Lister, is to leave to take up a new post at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
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HSJ LocalTrust offers nurses better pay for opting out of pension
Oxleas Foundation Trust has defended a controversial pay deal aimed at attracting agency nurses, which means band 5 nurses can earn more if they opt out of the NHS pension scheme.
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CommentHow vanguards are connecting people to non-medical sources of support
The new care model vanguards are already making great strides in supporting people by connecting them to non-medical help, Samantha Jones writes
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CommentHow NICE has been a 'terrible beauty'
The National Institute for Health and Care Exellence has been doing the balancing act despite sticking to its cost effective agenda, Nick Timmins writes
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Expert BriefingHSJ Catchup: 14 March 2016
Make sure you are up to date with the events of the last seven days with our insight into the stories that matter most
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HSJ LocalFT beats private provider to delayed £45m contract
COMMERCIAL: Hull based Humber Foundation Trust is the new provider of a delayed £45m contract to run community and out of hours services in Whitby.
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NewsUpdated: Judge orders trust to re-employ surgeon after private work row
A hospital trust has been ordered to re-employ a surgeon it sacked after claiming he had put an NHS patient at risk by prioritising his private work.
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HSJ Local300 CSU staff to transfer to CCG
About 300 support staff for Greater Manchester to move to Oldham Clinical Commissioning Group Option of transferring staff to another CSU rejected for fears it would undermine devolution project There have been at least 22 redundancies About 300 commissioning support staff for Greater Manchester are set to be ...
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NewsGP federation could create a ‘super partnership’ covering 540,000 patients
Suffolk GP Federation, which covers 540,000 patients, explores options on becoming a super partnership Chief executive says move could give more support to 61 practices, but choice is for practices The federation is “neutral” on what change is best One of the country’s largest GP federations is consulting ...
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HSJ KnowledgeCharting the increasing role of allied health professionals in the NHS
HCL Workforce Solutions’ Claire Billenness on the positive contribution made by the AHP workforce to the country’s health and wellbeing
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CommentWhy we should value finance professionals
Non-clinical workers may not directly save lives, but they provide essential support to clinicians who do
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HSJ KnowledgeIt’s time to call on the A-team: allied health professionals
In an age when massive savings are required of trusts, why do allied health professionals remain such a hugely untapped resource?
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CommentPlanning a hospital for constant capacity - a worked example
Common sense is as important as planning when it comes to defeating expensive peaks and troughs of capacity
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CommentThe fault is not in tendering but in how the NHS goes about it
The collapse of UnitingCare is symptomatic of the NHS’s inexperience in tendering and a legacy of local contracting arguments
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CommentGeneral practice may have only five years to live
Government must give GPs the financial support and freedom to identify the local solutions they require