South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1344
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Comment
Where does dementia policy go next?
The G8 summit on dementia is a big win, but national progress is stalling
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News
Flory: Commissioning uncertainty hitting trusts' finances
Unpredictable financial flows caused by unsettled commissioning structures are causing problems for trusts, according to Trust Development Authority chief executive David Flory.
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News
Monitor to increase supervision of FT A&E performance
Monitor is increasing its scrutiny of foundation hospitals’ accident and emergency performance this winter, after being requested to do so by the health secretary.
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News
EXCLUSIVE: Serco chief admits mistakes
Outsourcing giant Serco underestimated how long it would take to restructure community health services in Suffolk, its health managing director has told HSJ.
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News
Cancer care 'postcode lottery'
Cancer patients are facing a postcode lottery of care within the NHS, with patients in some areas four times less likely to get an early diagnosis, it has been reported.
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News
New guidance on IV drip prescribing
Up to one in five patients could be suffering unnecessarily in hospitals across the UK because medics are making basic blunders in prescribing drips, experts have warned.
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HSJ Local
'Brave' South Gloucestershire CCG plans referred to health secretary
STRUCTURE: Councillors in South Gloucestershire have voted to refer plans to axe outpatient and diagnostic services at a local site to the health secretary.
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News
DH paid £1.5m to financial advisers on blood company sell-off
The Department of Health paid £1.5m to the financial advisers who acted for the government in the sale of the majority stake in Plasma Resources UK, the blood products company.
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Comment
Michael White: A year of 'everything for the best'
You needn’t be Dr Pangloss to hope for a better year in 2014
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News
HSJ Live: 10.12.2013 Specialised commissioning £196.7m behind plan
NHS reports a deficit of £136.8m in specialised commissioning, and the rest of the day’s news and comment
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HSJ Knowledge
GPs should overcome their suspicions about telehealth
One GP shares how it has reduced workload and improved care
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HSJ Local
Walsall reduces paperwork by 80 per cent
A West Midlands trust is claiming to have reduced the total number of forms nurses need to complete by 80 per cent, down from 1,500 to just 300.
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HSJ Local
Capital spends and CIP slippage at Ashford and St Peter's
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals Foundation Trust is predicting that it will fall short of its cost improvement programme delivery by £1.2m by the end of the year.
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HSJ Local
North Tyneside CCG in deficit
FINANCE: North Tyneside clinical commissioning group is showing a year to date deficit of £278,000 as of 30 September 2013, according to board papers from its November governing body meeting.
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News
EXCLUSIVE: Integration pioneers among winners from £260m technology fund
Three plans to join up patient records across a number of health and social care organisations are among 135 projects to have secured a share of NHS England’s £260m technology fund.
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News
Revealed: Thousand incidences of specialised services failing standards
NHS England has agreed more than 1,000 temporary contract variations when providers of specialised services have failed to meet new service standards, HSJ has learned.
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Blogs
Esio Cat
As Roald Dahl’s regular illustrator, Quentin Blake drew snozzcumbers and Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. But even such a colourful imagination as his can struggle to comprehend the mysteries of NHS bureaucracy.Mr Blake sketched a new logo for Whittington Health Trust in north London: a goggle-eyed but chipper looking black cat, ...
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News
HSJ Live: 09.12.2013 Patients forced to wait in ambulances
Ambulance waits outside hospitals, and the rest of the day’s news and comment
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News
Friday operations death risk 'greater'
People having a routine operation on a Friday are 24 per cent more likely to die than if they had one earlier in the week, according to a major report.