South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1313
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News
HSJ Live 18.02.2014 care.data programme postponed by six months
NHS England has has delayed plans to begin collecting patient data from GP surgeries to later this year following mouting criticism, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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HSJ Knowledge
E-prescriptions change the game for acute trusts
The NHS is expected to be paperless by 2018
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News
HSJ map: Large and extended GP providers
Selected GP federations and large-scale providers mapped
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News
Caldicott: Information governance knowledge has worsened
The health and social care workforce’s knowledge of good information governance has deteriorated since the NHS reforms were implemented, according to the expert commissioned by the government to examine the issue.
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HSJ Local
Treasury delay risks 'smashing up' Papworth
Papworth Hospital Foundation Trust’s chairman has accused ministers of risking “smashing up” one of the “jewels in the NHS’s crown” by continuing to delay the trust’s move to a new site.
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HSJ Local
New review of children's heart surgery in Bristol
The chair of the high profile public inquiry into paediatric heart surgery in Bristol is to lead a new review into the deaths of a number of children with heart problems at University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Patients operated on with unsterilised instruments
An investigation has been launched after nine patients at a hospital in the North West were operated on with surgical instruments which had not been fully sterilised.
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News
Trust 'loses confidence' in PFI provider
North Cumbria University Hospitals has “lost confidence” in the private finance initiative contractor that manages facilities on its main site after a probe uncovered “major issues” with the way its operating theatres, water systems and gas pipelines were being maintained.
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Blogs
Sandbags, dredging and waiting times forecasts
What can the NHS learn from the Environment Agency’s management of flood risk?
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News
Concern at medical records sharing
Almost half of the public do not understand plans for sharing their medical records while 80 per cent of GPs are unclear how the data will be used, surveys have shown.
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News
NICE rejects drug policy that 'values pensioners less'
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has rejected government proposals that would see an assessment of the benefits a patient may have on society being taken into account when deciding whether to pay for new drugs.
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News
HSJ Live 17.02.2014 Patients at Wirral operated on with unsterilised equipment
Nine patients potentially put at risk of infection when unsterilised instruments used in surgery, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment.
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HSJ Knowledge
Avoid medication inaccuracies with new technology
Improve the quality of prescription related information
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Blogs
Your 18 week waits: December 2013 data
Interactive maps of local NHS waits around England, showing the pressures and one-year-waits, with links to all the detail by organisation and specialty.
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Blogs
Stop looking for a quick fix from the private sector
The government puts too much emphasis on leadership and has too much admiration for private sector management
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HSJ Local
CCG terminates community services contract with York
STRUCTURE: York Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust has agreed to terminate its contract to run community services in Whitby after agreeing that its current offer could be improved.
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HSJ Local
Dorset 111 service gets extra funding
FINANCE: Dorset CCG has had to provide South West Ambulance Service Foundation Trust with additional funding for the provision of the NHS 111 service.
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Blogs
And so it begins: the decline of 18 week waits
The waiting list usually shrinks from August to December. Not this time. The waiting list now looks set to pass the 3 million mark around Easter, and there is a risk of England-wide 18 week breaches this year.
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HSJ Local
App aims to cut A&E visits
Clinical commissioning group leaders in north London have launched a new mobile app in a bid to help patients access the most appropriate services and cut down on unnecessary visits to accident and emergency departments.