South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 158
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: More NHS staff are quitting than ever before
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: NHSE steps up 78-week drive as March deadline looms
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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News
Trust gives up running GP practices
Two Swindon GP practices that were taken over by the local hospital trust three years ago are moving back into independent GP ownership.
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News
Revealed: Impact of new payment tariff on every local system
Trusts in the south of England are expected to see a lower rate of income growth under the planned new payment tariff for 2023-24.
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HSJ Local
‘Tearful’ staff raise patient safety concerns to CQC
An inspection of a hospital has found all wards were understaffed, while ‘tearful [and] exhausted’ clinicians raised patient safety concerns to the regulator.
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News
£480m contract for national data platform tendered by NHS England
NHS England has launched its much-delayed procurement for a new national data platform.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Major change and challenges for 2023
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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HSJ Local
Ex-police chief to chair struggling trust
A former police chief has been appointed chair of England’s most under-pressure ambulance trust.
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News
Errors in overflowing EDs causing heart attacks, NHS England warns
Patients have suffered cardiac and respiratory arrests because of errors using oxygen cylinders, NHS England has warned, citing more people being cared for in “areas without access to medical gas pipeline systems” such as corridors and ambulances queuing outside A&E.
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News
CQC releases staff to help with winter crisis
Staff at the Care Quality Commission have been released to volunteer for frontline work at trusts during the winter crisis, the regulator has announced.
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News
NHSE to bring commercial expertise to service’s innovation efforts
NHS England wants to bring more commercial and procurement expertise to the NHS’s process of developing innovative medical products, according to a proposed strategy.
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News
Long cancer waits hit record high, despite drop in backlog
The number of people waiting for cancer diagnosis and treatment for more than three months has passed 12,000 for the first time.
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News
Confusion over changes to CQC inspections signalled by Barclay
The Care Quality Commission is to ‘adjust’ its ‘regulatory activity for the rest of winter’ in an effort to help ‘increase capacity in both adult social care and the NHS’.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: ‘Useless, overpaid and appallingly run’
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
MP says NHS ‘shambles’ is fault of ‘utterly useless senior managers’
A Conservative MP has blamed “far too many overpaid and utterly useless senior managers” for what he described as the “shambles of the NHS”.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Your failing hospital
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Comment
Changing who the NHS treats first will open a 'can of worms', but it is a debate we must have
We have, for too long, avoided opening the moral and ethical debates around equity of access to care. We must grasp this thorny debate and apply sophistication to how we tackle waiting lists if we really want to close the inequality gap instead of making a poor position even worse, ...
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News
National procurement chief appointed
NHS Supply Chain has appointed a commercial director to take charge of major reforms to its operating model and oversee day-to-day procurement of £3.5bn worth of devices and supplies vital for trust operations.
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Daily Insight
The Primer: Tearing up the GP model
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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News
New discharge fund risks being ‘political theatre’, warn NHS leaders
The government has ‘a week to 10 days’ to distribute the £200m it is committing to speed up hospital discharge if the initiative is to have a meaningful impact on reducing the 13,000 patients who are medically fit to leave hospital, national healthcare leaders have told HSJ.