South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1286
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HSJ Local
Airedale FT opens new A&E department
STRUCTURE: New £6.4 million emergency department will improve privacy and bring dignity for vulnerable older patients, the foundation trust’s chief executive says.
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HSJ Local
Trust boosts services for looked after children following CQC criticism
PERFORMANCE: Humber NHS Foundation Trust has completed ’85 per cent’ of measures demanded by NHS inspectors to improve care for looked after children.
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NewsQOF 'bad for health', says NHS England GP leader
NHS England’s most senior GP leaders have criticised the national GP pay for performance framework as ‘bad for health’. Clinicians should instead be incentivised to work more closely with other parts of the health system, they said.
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HSJ LocalSocial enterprises win Cornwall out of hours contract
COMMERCIAL: A social enterprise consortium will replace Serco as the provider of out of hours GP services across Cornwall.
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NewsMaking NICE guidelines mandatory ‘counterproductive’, says former chair
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s former chair Sir Michael Rawlins has criticised NHS commissioners for ‘poorly implementing’ the body’s guidelines but said making them mandatory would be ‘counterproductive’.
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HSJ LocalNorfolk and Suffolk FT withdraws from mutuals project
STRUCTURE: Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has today announced its withdrawal from the government’s Mutuals in Health pathfinder project.
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NewsNational fund needed to address paramedic shortage, says ambulance chief
An ambulance trust chief executive has warned that the lack of a national funding scheme for training paramedics could only exacerbate workforce shortages if it is not tackled.
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HSJ Local
Sheffield CCG to review urgent care services
STRUCTURE: Sheffield CCG is to review the way urgent care services are run and structured across the city amid concerns that the current system is struggling with high levels of demand.
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NewsHSJ Live 13.02.2015: Making NICE guidelines mandatory ‘counterproductive’, says former chair
Former NICE chair criticises NHS commissioners for ‘poorly implementing’ body’s guidelines. plus the rest of today’s news
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NewsExclusive: DH bailouts already higher than 2013-14 total
The total value of trust bailouts paid out by the Department of Health so far this financial year has already outstripped last year’s total, HSJ research shows.
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NewsHSJ seeks best places to work in the NHS
HSJ is looking for the best places to work in the NHS.
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HSJ Local
Emergency department pilots partnership with private pharmacists
STRUCTURE: North Manchester General Hospital has installed a private healthcare provider pharmacist at its A&E department to ease demand by treating patients with common ailments and minor injuries.
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NewsMidlands paramedic sentenced after hospital death
A West Midlands paramedic has been handed an eight month suspended sentence after failing to examine and start resuscitation on a man who collapsed outside a hospital emergency department.
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HSJ LocalMidlands trust asks former chair to pay back £10k
FINANCE: The Royal Wolverhampton Trust is attempting to claw back more than £10,000 paid to a previous chair because the payment was in breach of financial rules for trusts.
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NewsExclusive: Medical examiners help expose patient safety risks
Medical examiners working in pilot areas in England have exposed clinical incidents, poor staffing and fatal infections that have led to deaths on hospital wards, according to research shared with HSJ.
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NewsExclusive: PHE to further investigate drop in elderly life expectancy
National public health officials have said they will further investigate falls in life expectancy among older people, after finding it was ‘too early’ to conclude they had stopped living for longer.
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NewsHSJ Live 12.02.2015: Probe into life expectancy of older people extends
Public health officials extend probe into life expectancy falls among older people plus the rest of the today’s news
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HSJ KnowledgeTrust chiefs speak: How to tackle winter pressures and election turbulence
2015 is set to be a turbulent year for the hospital sector, especially as the NHS looks likely to be the battleground for the election. Richard Vize speaks to trust chief executives about their plan of attack
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