South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1556
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HSJ Local
Portsmouth trust launches investigation into five hour trolley wait
PERFORMANCE: Portsmouth Hospitals Trust has launched an investigation after a 90-year-old dementia patient was left for nearly five hours on a trolley in a corridor awaiting treatment.
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HSJ Local
James Paget University Hospital plans £600k pathology upgrade
COMMERCIAL: James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is to spend £600,000 upgrading its pathology facilities.
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HSJ Local
Birmingham Cross City CCG on track for surplus despite acute overspend
FINANCE: Birmingham Cross City clinical commissioning group reported it was ahead of its finance plan at the end of month nine, and was expecting to hit its £2m surplus target for the year.
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HSJ Local
West Middlesex to announce merger partner on Tuesday
STRUCTURE: West Middlesex University Hospital Trust is due to announce its merger partner on Tuesday.
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HSJ Local
Two-year north London urology contract tendered
COMMCERCIAL: NHS Enfield and NHS Haringey are tendering for a “community-based” urology service over two years.
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HSJ Local
New service goes out to AQP in Dorset
COMMERCIAL: NHS Dorset has advertised for providers of community endoscopy under any qualified provider, board papers reveal.
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HSJ Local
Birmingham FT releases reserves to cover deficit
FINANCE: University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust is forecasting a better than expected surplus, but only after releasing contingency funds to plug a financial gap.
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Blogs
NHS leaders of the future: more Thatcher or Nyborg?
NHS leaders could do worse than taking notes from Borgen prime minister Birgitte Nyborg on building alliances with others and finding unlikely common causes, says Chris Ham
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Comment
On balance, sacking Nicholson would be worse for the NHS
Getting rid of Sir David is the easy option
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HSJ Partners
Webinar: should the NHS use Ofsted-style ratings?
The challenges and benefits of Ofsted-style ratings
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News
Kelsey plans iPad app to provide patient 'insight'
The NHS Commissioning Board has outlined fresh details of its drive to bring together information from a range of official and unofficial sources to provide a picture of NHS service providers’ quality.
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News
CCGs warn they risk being 'saddled with inherited debt'
Clinical commissioning groups have warned they are at risk of being “saddled with an inherited debt” when they take on their new powers, as a result of an onslaught of retrospective claims for NHS continuing healthcare funding.
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News
Exclusive: Merging Dorset trusts could be banned from talking
The two providers involved in the first merger of two foundation trusts could be prevented from freely communicating with each other while the Competition Commission reviews the case, HSJ has learned.
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News
Minister defends tendering rules
Health minister Lord Howe has defended the government’s regulations on competition, which have been criticised after being laid before Parliament.
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News
HSJ Live 26.2.2013: Competition rules raised in House of Commons
Controversial NHS regulations raised in Commons
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Comment
The NHS needs to think long term about contracts
Why commissioners should take a more strategic approach
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HSJ Knowledge
Investing in leadership post-Francis
Facing up to the “greatest leadership challenge the NHS has faced”
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HSJ Local
Complaint sparks police involvement at Kent neuro unit
WORKFORCE: A member of staff at a neuro-rehabilitation unit has been suspended and a police investigation launched after a complaint from a patient’s family about their care.
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HSJ Local
New medical director for Ashford and St Peter’s
WORKFORCE: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed Dr David Fluck as substantive medical director.
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News
Analysed: The continuing care claims deluge
PCTs face a £600m bill for backdated claims for care funding, and this is causing anxiety for clinical commissioning groups too