South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1549
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HSJ Local
Yorkshire ambulance service highlights patients late for travel
PERFORMANCE: Patients who require non-emergency transport to hospital with Yorkshire Ambulance Service often arrive early or late for their appointments.
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HSJ Local
New vehicle talks at Yorkshire Ambulance Service
FINANCE: Yorkshire Ambulance Service is considering buying additional non-emergency vehicles as 178 of its current ones are judged to be ‘over age.’
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HSJ Local
Yorkshire lets ten year GP practice contract
FINANCE: A ten-year contract to provide medical services at Thornton and Denholme Medical Practice has been awarded to a group of Shipley-based doctors who are already providing temporary services at the surgery.
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HSJ Local
Bradford drops health and wellbeing centre plan
STRUCTURE: Plans to develop a health and wellbeing centre in the Keighley area of Bradford have been dropped in favour of concentrating on an integrated care model.
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HSJ Local
Sheffield Children’s Hospital struggles with diagnostic target
PERFRORMANCE: Sheffield Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust failed to carry out diagnostic tests on 30 patients within six weeks in January – meaning that it did not meet the 99 per cent target.
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HSJ Local
Sheffield Hospitals face 5pc efficiency next year
FINANCE: Staff at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust will need to plan for five per cent efficiency savings next year, the board heard.
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News
Hospital trust chooses merger partner
A west London district general hospital has snubbed a merger bid from Imperial College Healthcare Trust, opting instead to join with an established foundation trust, HSJ understands.
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News
NMC seeks new powers in wake of Mid Staffs
Ministers have been challenged to make urgent changes to the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s powers in order to improve public protection – as it emerged just 13 nurses are currently facing sanctions in relation to the high profile care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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Comment
Nicholson and Dacre are two of an autocratic kind
Sir David was more persuasive on organisational issues than personal ones
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News
Minimum nurse staffing levels 'not the answer', says minister
Health minister Dan Poulter appeared yesterday to reject the Francis Report’s call for nationally recognised minimum nurse staffing levels.
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News
Warning on hospitals' PFI spending
Hospital spending on private finance schemes is increasing at an alarming rate, a report by the Nuffield Trust suggests.
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HSJ Local
Council to seek judicial review over Lewisham downgrade
STRUCTURE: Lewisham Council has voted unanimously to seek judicial review of the trust special administration process that saw Lewisham Hospital recommended for downgrade.
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News
Exclusive: Caldicott to recommend new NHS duty to share data
The Caldicott review into information governance in health and social care is likely to recommend a new duty to share information between agencies where it is in a patient’s best interests.
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HSJ Local
Second trust pulls out of South West pay consortium
WORKFORCE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust has become the second organisation to pull out of the South West Pay Consortium.
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HSJ Local
Royal Surrey looks to cut workforce
WORKFORCE: Royal Surrey County Hospital Foundation Trust is seeking to make around 30 staff redundant as part of efforts to reduce its workforce.
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HSJ Local
Northern Lincolnshire FT instigates external 'sustainability and quality' review
A foundation trust whose high mortality rates are under review has hired consultants to examine “the sustainability and quality” of its clinical services.
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News
HSJ Live 6.3.2013
David Cameron appears to back Sir David Nicholson in PMQs, exclusive interview with Dame Fiona Caldicott and the rest of the today’s news
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ Awards winners reveal their secrets of service change
Winners discuss their sustainable strategies
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Comment
Patients and staff can both promote innovation
Pushing ideas through the NHS from the top hasn’t worked