South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1367
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Leader
The fear of an irrevocable tipping point haunts plans to rescue A&E
There are two kinds of performance problems large enough to set alarm bells ringing at national level and get newspaper leader writers dusting off their “NHS in crisis” clichés.
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News
Morecambe Bay investigation will seek families' input
Further details have emerged of the independent inquiry into University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust’s maternity and neonatal services.
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News
More emergency departments breach waiting time targets
Increasing numbers of accident and emergency patients are being treated outside the maximum four hour wait year on year over the past four summers, an HSJ analysis shows.
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News
Health burden is greatest during moderately cold weather
The NHS has been urged to place greater emphasis on supporting vulnerable groups during periods of moderately cold rather than freezing temperatures after a study suggested this is when services come under greatest strain.
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News
CQUIN bar 'set too low' says innovation chief
The standards required by trusts to receive incentive payments designed to drive innovation were “probably set too low”, NHS England’s innovation chief said last week.
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Blogs
Parliamentary cycle
End Game was pleased to see care and support minister Norman Lamb having such a lovely time in his constituency, modelling this weird bike/cross trainer hybrid.But we couldn’t help but notice that the machine was static. Should we take pedalling furiously and going absolutely nowhere as a visual metaphor for ...
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News
'Large variations' in place of death
There are “large variations” across England in the proportion of people who die at hospital or in their own homes, figures show.
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News
Cancer survival rate highlighted
Cancer patients living in the most deprived parts of England are a third less likely to be alive five to 10 years after diagnosis than those in the most affluent areas.
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News
HSJ Live 4.11.13: NHS warned about greater dangers of moderately cold weather
Services come under most strain in these conditions, says Public Health England
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News
HSJ celebrates innovation in healthcare
This week HSJ will announce our list of the 50 most innovative people in the sector.
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Comment
Community trusts are invisible to politicians
End the preoccupation with all things hospital
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HSJ Knowledge
Helen Bevan: Three steps to a new innovation strategy
How to achieve better healthcare services from existing resources
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HSJ Local
Coventry and Warwickshire trust slips on cancer waits
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire has failed to hit its cancer waiting time target for three months in a row.
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HSJ Local
Corby CCG appoints acting accountable officer
Corby clinical commissioning group has appointed Carole Dehghani as acting accountable officer.
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HSJ Local
Mid Yorkshire hospitals reconfiguration referred to Hunt
STRUCTURE: Plans to reconfigure Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust’s services have been referred to the health secretary.
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HSJ Local
Council leader accused of intimidating CCG staff
A council leader has reacted angrily to claims that he intimidated staff of Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group.
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News
Trust errors result in hundreds breaching waiting time target
A hospital trust has revealed it failed to properly record the waiting times of 60 per cent of its elective inpatients, causing hundreds of them not to receive treatment within the 18-week deadline.
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News
Health board IT failure looked at
Computer problems which seriously disrupted hospitals in a major health board area for two days at the beginning of October are now being investigated.
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Nick Clegg defends A&E closures
Nick Clegg has defended the government’s decision to downgrade two accident and emergency departments.