South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1149
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Comment
Commissioners must help defuse England’s cancer time bomb
Tackling the looming cancer challenge
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Supplements
Roundtable: What more people living longer with cancer means for the NHS
Taking the long view on cancer care
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News
Labour reveals 10 year plan for health and social care
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has confirmed he wants health and wellbeing boards to be accountable for new ‘year of care budgets’ which would cover the ‘health and social care needs’ of those ‘at the greatest risk of hospitalisation’, but added that the funds would ‘be paid to an NHS ...
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HSJ Local
Northamptonshire agrees revamped better care fund plan
FINANCE: Northamptonshire’s health bodies and its county council have finally agreed on the terms of its better care fund plan, following intervention from NHS England.
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Comment
Politicians must come clean on how they plan to fund the NHS of the future
The war for Number 10 begins
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News
NHS England resolves £50m dispute with CCGs
NHS England has settled a dispute with clinical commissioning groups in the south of England over its proposal to transfer £50m from their budgets to its own specialised commissioners.
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News
Bupa and CSH Surrey pull out of £235m MSK contract
Private provider Bupa and social enterprise CSH Surrey have pulled out of a £235m contract to run musculoskeletal services in West Sussex.
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News
Future role of GPs in commissioning is ‘fragile’, report finds
GPs involved in clinical commissioning groups have doubts about whether they will be capable of taking on additional responsibility for primary care, health think tanks have warned.
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HSJ Local
Leicester Hospitals adopts automated drugs system
COMMERCIAL: University Hospitals of Leicester Trust is to adopt a hi-tech medicines management system which will use robots to pack individual drug doses.
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News
Third of acute trusts do not display named clinicians above patient beds
Over a third of trusts are not displaying a named clinician above patient beds despite health secretary Jeremy Hunt introducing the policy 18 months ago.
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News
Exclusive survey: Low confidence that NHS will hit 2018 paperless goal
Health and IT professionals remain deeply sceptical that the NHS can be paperless by 2018, two years after health secretary Jeremy Hunt unveiled the ambitious target, exclusive HSJ research has found.
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News
HSJ Live 26.01.2015: BUPA CSH withdraws from Coastal West Sussex procurement
Joint venture pulls out of MSK procurement following trust impact assessment, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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HSJ Knowledge
Public health gets with the programme using technology
Smart solutions for getting public health messages across
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HSJ Knowledge
Resource Centre round up: Improving urgent care
We have compiled a selection of our best commissioning, innovation and leadership articles over the past year, looking at the pressures facing emergency care and how organisations are dealing with it.
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News
CCGs consider swapping GPs to avoid conflict of interest
Clinical commissioning groups are considering swapping GPs with their neighbouring groups to safeguard against potential conflicts of interest in commissioning primary care.
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HSJ Local
South West trust sees increase in hospital acquired pressure sores
PERFORMANCE: South Devon Healthcare Trust recorded 172 hospital acquired pressure sores in grades 1 and 2 in the 12 months through to September.
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News
'No evidence' to justify local midwifery regulation
Local regulation of midwives should be scrapped according to a report by the King’s Fund which has found “no evidence” to justify its existence.
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News
Monitor angers CCGs with advice on community services
Commissioners have voiced concern that their efforts to integrate services will be hampered by ‘enforced competition’ after Monitor released a report warning them against simply rolling over existing community services contracts.