South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1508
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News
Exclusive: Dramatic increase in emergency 12 hours 'trolley waits' uncovered
Pressure on accident and emergency departments has seen a large increase in the number of hospital trusts reporting patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted, an HSJ analysis has found.
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News
Exclusive: Experts identify urgent need for 'balanced guidance' on NHS competition
New guidelines from the NHS’s competition watchdog may lead commissioners to “perceive the scope for regulatory action as being so wide that it inhibits service redesign”, an influential think tank has warned.
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Blogs
Your 18 week waits: February 2013 data
The local picture on one-year and 18-week waits across England, updated with the latest data.
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News
Labour care review lead not 'tied down' by NHS budget handover
Sir John Oldham, the chair of the Labour commission set up to examine ways of joining up health and social care, has pledged to keep an “open mind” on how the integration could be best achieved.
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Comment
Warner: Why I will be voting for NHS competition regulations
The battle over draft NHS provider competition regulations
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News
HSJ Live 23.04.2013: Hunt appears in front of health select committee
CQC will get as much money as they need to run the new inspection regime, Jeremy Hunt tells MPs; need for “balanced guidance” on NHS competition and the rest of today’s news
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News
Exclusive: Majority believe hospitals 'tolerate poor standards'
A majority of the public believe some hospitals have a “tolerance of poor standards”, according to respondents to a national survey shared exclusively with HSJ.
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HSJ Knowledge
Transforming leadership culture after Francis
How boards can measure their performance
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Comment
The friends and family test can work
The single question has not been received with universal rapture
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HSJ Local
North Cumbria leans on strategic support to show surplus
FINANCE: North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust was reporting a small surplus of £198,000 a month before the end of 2012-13, its latest finance report shows. However, in order to record a surplus the trust needed to include a disproportionately large chunk of the strategic support it had received for the ...
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HSJ Local
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG forecast to break even for 2012-13
FINANCE Cambridgeshire and Peterborough clinical commissioning group will break even for the 2012-13 financial year, according to a forecast in its April board papers.
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HSJ Local
Portsmouth ends year on plan despite overspends
FINANCE: Portsmouth clinical commissioning group ended 2012-13 in surplus despite overspending on its major acute contract.
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HSJ Local
Mental health trust announces job cuts
STRUCTURE Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has announced plans to cut 41 staff posts as it embarks on a controversial restructure which will see hundreds more jobs go.
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HSJ Local
Addenbrooke's Hospital wards offered cash to discharge patients
PERFORMANCE Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust wards have been offered cash incentives to discharge patients under a controversial new scheme to alleviate bed blocking.
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HSJ Local
Furness General MAU closed amid escalating norovirus outbreak
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust today closed the medical assessment unit of its Furness General Hospital to admissions and visitors, in a bid to curb an “escalating outbreak of suspected norovirus”.
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Blogs
The new culture of openness in action
End Game was delighted to discover that as part of NHS England’s ongoing commitment to transparency, one of its senior managers has apparently started her own blog.It comes from Samantha Riley, the organisation’s director of insight. Title: “Samantha Riley’s Insight Blog (Which is Hopefully Insightful!)”Yes, hopefully it is.Actually, End Game ...
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HSJ Local
Surrey and Sussex CSU deemed unviable
STRUCTURE: The Surrey and Sussex Commissioning Support Unit is to be closed after being deemed unviable.
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Blogs
Could the 'Rooney rule' work in the public sector?
A look at how attitudes to race have changed in public sector recrutiment.
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HSJ Local
Analysed: Changes and challenges for Leicester’s health economy
The changing face of Leicester’s health economy
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Comment
Thatcher ducked the NHS fight, we have to face it
Thatcher’s handling of the NHS offers lessons for reformers