South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1315
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HSJ Local
Outgoing Heatherwood chief: 'This trust will not be fixed soon'
PERFORMANCE: The outgoing chief executive of Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust has said it will take “years” to fix the organisation, and predicted that a forthcoming Care Quality Commission inspection would find continuing failings in some aspects of care.
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News
Analysis: better care fund decision offers a universal solution
The Department of Health’s decision not to withhold better care fund cash from areas struggling to improve performance looks at first glance like a softening of central control.
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News
Children's hospital told to improve
A leading children’s hospital has been ordered to improve after inspectors found patients were being put at risk by a faulty emergency call alarm system, poor staffing and incidents going unreported.
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News
Crisis over NHS database - GPs
GP leaders are warning of a “crisis of public confidence” in an NHS scheme set up to share details from people’s medical records.
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News
HSJ Live 13.02.2014 Ministers: better care fund cash will be spent on health
Health and local government ministers have insisted better care fund cash will not be diverted by councils into non-health projects, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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News
Exclusive: £10m of Healthwatch cash 'goes missing'
Nearly a quarter of the funding for local Healthwatch groups has gone missing, according to research by the national body representing them.
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News
Ministers: better care fund cash will be spent on health
Health and local government ministers have insisted better care fund cash will not be diverted by councils into non-health projects.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why coordinated care is key for rare disease patients
Emergency admissions can be avoided
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HSJ Partners
We are failing to meet the palliative care needs of BME communities
Barriers to care need to be torn down
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News
DH acknowledges 'first fall in life expectancy since 2003'
The Department of Health has acknowledged that life expectancy at 75 – one of its corporate indicators – fell in 2012 for the first time in many years.
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News
Roughton to consider how CCGs could co-commission primary care
NHS England is looking into how clinical commissioning groups can co-commission primary care, its deputy medical director has revealed.
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MPs back wellbeing boards to be 'system leaders'
The Commons health committee has called for health and wellbeing boards to be given a greater role in spearheading integration between health and social care to ensure the sectors make urgently required savings.
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Comment
Miliband's direction lacks the Blair flair
Labour leader ventures into public service reform
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HSJ Local
New Imperial chief announced
WORKFORCE: Tracey Batten has been announced as the new chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare Trust.
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News
No integration pioneers win 'accelerator' status
NHS England has reneged on its plan to give a designated “integration pioneer” area special status as a centre of best practice in the use of its £260m technology fund.
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News
Nicholson demands hospital centralisation
The outgoing head of NHS England has said hospitals will have to close and services centralised to improve patient care.
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News
Miliband's CCG vision at odds with Burnham plan
Ed Miliband appears to have indicated that Labour would retain clinical commissioning groups as key decision making bodies in the NHS.
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News
Care UK boss outlines expansion goal
The managing director of healthcare at Care UK has used an HSJ interview to express optimism that the company can increase its share of NHS provision, including through taking over the running of hospitals.