South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1138
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Comment
Blowing the whistle on Labour's relationship with the NHS
What does Miliband’s failure to acknowledge healthcare problems in Wales tell us?
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News
Exclusive: Providers win £500m in new tariff deal
Providers will be given just a fortnight to decide whether to sign up to a new set of ‘voluntary’ prices for the coming year, with concessions made expected to cost commissioners up to £500m.
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HSJ Partners
Be prepared for the ICO's new powers over patient data protection
Information commissioner’s new powers of compulsory audit
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Leader
£500m risk transfer will not end the search for financial stability
Risk transfer signals “years of ad hoc approaches”
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HSJ Local
Academic health science network gives universities £250,000 grant
Ten universities across Sheffield and the East Midlands are to share in a £250,000 grant designed to help spread best practice in health education.
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News
CCGs taking on full primary care co-commissioning powers revealed
NHS England has revealed the 64 clinical commissioning groups that will take full control of their local primary care budgets from April.
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HSJ Local
Commissioners seek to expand pharmacists’ role
COMMUNITY SERVICES: Pharmacists in the North East may be expected to expand their role to help reduce hospital admissions and identify more patients with previously undiagnosed long term conditions, commissioners have said.
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HSJ Local
Investigation into rise in unborn children requiring protection plans
PERFORMANCE: Safeguarding experts are investigating why the number of unborn children subject to a child protection plan more than doubled to 65 over one quarter during 2014.
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HSJ Local
Trust pledges improvements after review of patients who committed murder
PERFORMANCE: South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust has drawn up an action plan to learn lessons from six historical cases involving patients who committed murders while under its care.
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HSJ Local
Bradford launches drive to tackle cardiovascular disease
PERFORMANCE: More than 200 extra patients in Yorkshire have started anticoagulation therapy through a programme to reduce the incidence of cardiovascular diseases and cut rates of stroke and heart attack.
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HSJ Local
Updated: ‘Unique’ consortium wins Birmingham mental health contract
COMMERCIAL: A consortium involving public, private and voluntary sector providers has been appointed preferred bidder for a £124m contract to deliver joined up mental health services to children, adolescents and young adults in Birmingham.
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HSJ Local
CMA to investigate Surrey trusts' merger plan
The proposed merger between two trusts in Surrey has hit a stumbling block after the Competition and Markets Authority said the merger could have ‘adverse effects’ for patients and it has launched an investigation.
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News
Monitor to road test payment systems for new care models
Monitor is to begin ‘co-designing’ and testing models for capitation based payment systems to help in the commissioning of new models for integrated care.
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Comment
Collective leadership will keep forward view ambitions on track
Changes to commissioning are needed
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News
Trusts surpass 100,000 extra elective treatments target
Trusts have gone beyond the government target to treat 100,000 extra patients waiting over 16 weeks for treatment.
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News
Government ups pressure to bring down waiting list
Government focus has moved from accident and emergency performance to the NHS’s 3.2 million elective waiting list, senior trust sector sources have told HSJ.
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News
Acute trusts mull marginal tariff complaint against CCGs
A number of acute trusts are considering launching an official complaint against their local clinical commissioning groups because of the way in which they have spent money designed to reduce emergency admissions.
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HSJ Partners
Three steps to better care for the terminally ill
The electorate wants to ease the burden on A&E – and it is achievable
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News
HSJ LIVE 18.02.2015: Full list of CCG primary care commissioners unveiled
NHS England has unveiled the first set of GP-led CCGs to take on responsibility for commissioning primary care services plus the rest of today’s news
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HSJ Local
UHNM launches partnership with GP surgery
University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust has launched a partnership with local GP surgery Nantwich Health Centre for plastic surgery, gynaecology and neurology patients in south Cheshire.