South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1625
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HSJ Local
Salisbury cancelled procedures due to spike in emergency demand
PERFORMANCE: The number of operations cancelled on the day of surgery at Salisbury Foundation Trust rose “significantly” during August due to an increased emergency workload, board papers said.
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News
Minister seeks to defend lack of GPs in CCG lead role
Health minister Lord Howe has attempted to defend the health reforms against HSJ’s finding that fewer than a quarter of clinical commissioning groups will have a GP as their accountable officer.
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HSJ Local
New chief executive for the Homerton revealed
WORKFORCE: Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust has appointed its chief operating officer Tracey Fletcher as its new chief executive.
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HSJ Local
Salisbury brings in consultants to find savings
FINANCE: Salisbury Foundation Trust has contracted with a consultancy firm to identify schemes to help achieve its £9.6m of cost improvements.
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Comment
Sally Gainsbury: calculating the cost of mental health
The answer is £334, not 42, according to new reference costs
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News
Report: NHS slipping on Innovation, Health and Wealth targets
There has been a “disappointing” lack of local engagement with the government’s plan to improve the spread of innovation in the NHS, new research has concluded.
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HSJ Knowledge
How King's made the most of a commercial break
A commercial arm is helping one foundation trust enhance care
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Blogs
Protecting the NHS brand or devaluing it?
Sir David Nicholson has had to defend the role of the NHS’s new “head of brand”
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News
Medicines body review announced
Concerns about the inconsistent availability of some medicines in Scotland has prompted a review of the decision-making process at the NHS’s drugs approval body.
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News
Anti-NHS reforms party launched
A group of healthcare professionals is today launching a new political party dedicated to opposing the government’s reforms of the NHS.
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News
CCGs reconsider staffing after running-cost funds reviewed
The NHS Commissioning Board has recalculated clinical commissioning groups’ allowances for running costs, prompting claims some may have to consider sacking staff they have just employed.
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News
HSJ Live rolling news 15.11.12
Skype being used to support mental health patients and the rest of today’s news
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News
Winterbourne whistleblower given job by CQC
The whistleblowing nurse who exposed poor care at the Winterbourne View Hospital has been given a job by the Care Quality Commission.
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Comment
Readers' letters - 15 November 2012
The government needs to review many unresolved issues around NHS 111 before rushing through a national rollout, writes Ron McDaniel
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HSJ Knowledge
Take the first steps to sharing responsibility
How organisations are learning to lead collectively
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News
Big Society mutuals scheme underwhelms NHS staff
A flagship Big Society programme to set up a new wave of NHS mutuals has yielded just 19 proposals, less than half the figure set up under the transforming community services programme in 2010 and 2011.
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News
Mandate aims to spark a 'revolution in transparency'
The NHS will be required to measure and publish outcomes data for all major services by 2015, to enable commissioners and patients to make more informed choices about care providers.
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HSJ Knowledge
Payment by results can enhance mental health services
The tariff system can help drive psychiatry forward
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HSJ Knowledge
Beaming help into homes with Skype
Tapping into the free technology to support patients
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HSJ Knowledge
Trusts lose ground in online marketing race
Providers are missing opportunities to promote themselves