South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1520
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Supplements
Unplugging the clinical letter bottleneck
Trusts racing to speed up clinical letters face an often tortuous process
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HSJ Local
Dudley CCG predicts fall in demand at local FT
PERFORMANCE: Dudley CCG is predicting a small fall in activity at Dudley Group Foundation Trust, which delivers 85 per cent of secondary care activity within the CCG area since 2009.
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Supplements
Innovation Through Technology − an HSJ supplement
Data access and clinical letters are imperfect in the NHS − but technology can change all that.
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HSJ Local
East Cheshire outsources HR service
COMMERCIAL: East Cheshire NHS Trust has awarded a four-year, single supplier framework contract to arvato UK & Ireland, the company has announced.
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HSJ Local
Newcastle FT chief exec hits out at 'legal procrastination'
STRUCTURE: The chief executive of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Sir Leonard Fenwick, has issued a statement following the High Court review on children’s heart surgery services.
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HSJ Local
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals introduces computerised heart disease assessment
CLINICAL RESEARCH: A new award-winning computer system which assesses heart disease better than the naked eye which could revolutionise the way patients with conditions such angina and heart attack are assessed and treated has been introduced at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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News
Majority of LETBs authorised with conditions by Health Education England
The majority of new Local Education and Training Boards will require on-going support and monitoring by Health Education England, it has emerged.
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HSJ Local
South Warwickshire works with Serco on transformation
STRUCTURE: South Warwickshire Foundation Trust has begun “scoping work” on two new transformation projects, both involving working with “strategic partners”.
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News
Flory: Francis has moved an all-FT NHS back two years
The consequences of the Francis inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire care scandal have pushed back the process of getting all NHS providers to foundation trust status by two years, David Flory has told HSJ.
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News
Flory: 'Loss of experience is greater than I’ve seen'
David Flory has said the current NHS reforms have prompted the greatest loss of management experience of any health service reorganisation he has seen in his career.
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News
Non-foundation trusts to face 5.1 per cent saving target
The NHS trust sector is looking to cut £1.5bn from its cost base this year in a squeeze that could prompt questions about the viability of some organisations, David Flory has revealed.
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Leader
Trust Development Authority to punch above its weight
New body to wrestle with future of non-FTs
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HSJ Local
CCP finds Bristol 'service swap' could be anti-competitive
COMMERCIAL: Plans to centralise some acute services in Bristol could be anti-competitive and must be investigated further, the Co-operation and Competition Panel has ruled.
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News
Homoeopathy 'mad' says former government scientist
A former government scientific advisor has criticised the use of homoeopathic treatments in the NHS, claiming the practice has “no scientific basis”.
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Blogs
Innovation in healthcare: ‘There’s a way to do it better – find it’
Alexandra Norrish on the lessons the UK can learn from the US health system’s long tradition of innovation
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Blogs
Senior management was ‘incompetent and reckless’
Blair McPherson on how we should judge managers
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News
Leeds heart unit campaigners urge for investigation
Campaigners fighting to save the children’s heart unit at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) have called on health secretary Jeremy Hunt to launch an investigation into the suspension of surgery at the hospital, describing the decision as “NHS politics at its worst”.
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Comment
The NHS must gear up to meet the challenge of workforce planning
Trusts should take a leaf from the car industry
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HSJ Knowledge
How conflicts of interest in CCGs will be regulated
Reconciling GPs’ commercial interests with the responsibilities of CCGs