South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1656
-
HSJ Local
Lack of management capacity hits Coventry QIPP
FINANCE: Coventry’s quality, innovation, productivity and prevention programme is forecast to under-achieve by £3.08m – in part due to a lack of project management capacity.
-
HSJ Local
Patient leaflets help reduce PCT waiting times by half
PERFORMANCE: A pilot project between Wolverhampton City PCT and charity Arthritis Research UK has halved waiting times for physiotherapy appointments and improved patient satisfaction.
-
HSJ Local
Nick Tupper appointed Doncaster CCG chair
WORKFORCE: GP Nick Tupper has been appointed chair of NHS Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group.
-
HSJ Local
Butterfly scheme to aid peaceful care in A&E
PERFORMANCE: Staff at the University Hospitals of Leicester have embraced a new scheme to show extra respect to the families of those who are dying or have died in the emergency department.
-
HSJ Local
Commissioners forecast East Lancashire Hospitals overspend of £8.6m
FINANCE: Lancashire commissioners had overspent their budgets for the trust by £2.7m by the end of July, and were forecasting an £8.6m overspend for the full year 2012-13.
-
HSJ Local
Aintree appeals against third recorded MRSA case
PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust currently has three recorded cases of MRSA for 2012-13, against an annual target of no more than two, commissioner board papers report.
-
HSJ Local
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals forecast to overperform by £8.1m
FINANCE: Lancashire primary care trusts are forecasting an overspend of £8.1m on their contracts with Blackpool Teaching Hospitals in 2012.
-
HSJ Local
Wexham Park Hospital expands AMU
STRUCTURE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust is investing more than £2.5m in reconfiguring wards, in anticipation of a rise in emergency attendances.
-
HSJ Local
Lincolnshire CCG accountable officers named
STRUCTURE: The designate accountable officers of the four clinical commissioning groups within Lincolnshire PCT have been announced.
-
HSJ Local
Lay chair for Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield CCG
STRUCTURE: NHS Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield CCG has appointed a lay chair.
-
HSJ Local
'Extreme' risk George Eliot will be unable to agree CIP
FINANCE: George Eliot Hospital Trust has recorded an “extreme” risk that it will be unable to agree its cost improvement plan for the current financial year.
-
HSJ Local
North Tees takes action on enhanced sick pay
FINANCE: North Tees and Hartlepool Foundation Trust has revealed plans to dismiss and re-hire 5,542 staff to scrap unsocial hours sick pay.
-
News
Commissioning board structure 'could harm specialised services'
Campaigners have expressed concern the planning of services for highly specialised conditions may be become more fragmented, potentially harming patients, under plans for the NHS Commissioning Board structure.
-
HSJ Local
Rising demand enables South Warwickshire to beat surplus target
FINANCE: South Warwickshire Foundation Trust is beating its surplus target thanks to high activity levels.
-
HSJ Local
George Eliot £2.5m in the red amid rising demand
FINANCE: George Eliot Hospital Trust was £2.5m in the red at the end of August, £2.2m worse than planned.
-
HSJ Local
Hillingdon Hospitals £121k behind plan
FINANCE: A report to the board of Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust said the trust’s surplus at the end of month four was a surplus of £548,000, £121,000 behind plan.
-
HSJ Local
South Warwickshire CCG loses grip on QIPP
FINANCE: South Warwickshire clinical commissioning group has admitted that it did not know whether some of its local efficiency schemes were working.
-
HSJ Local
Bury misses health checks target for Q1
PERFORMANCE: Just 830 people in NHS Bury’s catchment were offered health checks in the first quarter of 2012-13, against a target of 2,000, NHS Greater Manchester board papers show.
-
HSJ Local
Winter beds remain open as South Warwickshire demand rockets
PERFORMANCE: An 11.5 per cent rise in emergency admissions has prevented South Warwickshire Foundation Trust from closing winter capacity as planned.
-
HSJ Local
'Outstanding turnaround' in stroke care at George Eliot
PERFORMANCE: George Eliot Hospital has reported an “outstanding turnaround” in it stroke performance.