South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1690
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HSJ Local
Trust enters joint venture to market performance management software
COMMERCIAL: The south east London mental and community health services trust has entered a joint venture to market its medical performance management software.
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HSJ Local
Cluster finds extra funding to tackle year-plus IVF waiters
PERFORMANCE: Minutes of NHS South West London’s performance committee said money would be made available to reduce the number of IVF patients waiting longer than a year at one of the hospitals serving the cluster.
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HSJ Local
HealthWatch seeks 'assurance' over Harmoni out-of-hours service
PERFORMANCE: Minutes of the meeting of the Kingston Commissioning Committee said it had been told some record checks were being done by an administrator rather than a medic.
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HSJ Local
NE ambulance service below target in rural areas
PERFORMANCE: The North East Ambulance Service is struggling to achieve emergency response targets in rural areas despite a £1.9 million investment in services, board papers show.
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HSJ Local
Yorkshire Ambulance Service top performer on emergency calls
PERFORMANCE: Yorkshire Ambulance Service has outperformed all other English ambulance trusts on responding to emergency calls within eight minutes so far this year.
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HSJ Local
Basildon receives CQC warning over A&E waits for children
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust has been given a formal warning by the Care Quality Commission after unannounced inspections found triage times for children were being breached.
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News
Crackdown on foreigners' use of NHS treatment
Ministers have warned they will not tolerate abuse of the NHS by foreign visitors after a woman reportedly flew from Nigeria so that she could have her baby in a British hospital.
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News
Huge rise in gastric bypass ops
The number of gastric bypass operations carried out by the NHS in England has risen five-fold during the past five years
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HSJ Local
SASH breached A&E target in April
PERFORMANCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust breached the four-hour target for accident and emergency waits for two consecutive weeks during the first quarter of 2012-13, according to board papers.
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HSJ Local
Steady performance by Frimley Park on four-hour A&E target
PERFORMANCE: Frimley Park NHS Foundation Trust breached the four-hour target for accident and emergency waits once during the first quarter of 2012-13, according to board papers.
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Comment
The care measurement evolution
How useful are randomised controlled trials in evaluating new ways of delivering care?
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News
Regional pay consortium claims it can save 6,000 jobs
More than 6,000 NHS “jobs” in the South West could be saved if major changes go ahead to staff pay, and terms and conditions, it has been claimed.
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HSJ Knowledge
Training reforms make the grade
What does the new education and training system mean for providers and employers?
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Comment
Readers' letters - 23 August 2012
Delayed discharge is expensive and entirely preventable. Plus, why are ambulances being held up?
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HSJ Local
Lambeth given £1m towards 'Neighbourhood Resource Centres'
FINANCE: NHS London gave £1m to the south London primary care trust for the “Norwood and Akerman business cases development costs - development of proposals for the Neighbourhood Resource Centres supported by a full business case”, a report said.
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HSJ Local
SHA approves £1m admissions avoidance scheme for cluster
FINANCE: NHS London has approved NHS South East London’s application for an emergency readmissions avoidance scheme, funded from the primary care trust cluster’s 2 per cent annual top-slice.
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HSJ Local
Lewisham hospital gets £2.2m for 'sustainable maternity service'
FINANCE: NHS London granted a request from NHS South East London for £2.2m of its top-sliced funding to pay for “the delivery of a sustainable maternity service” and other “key service developments”, a Freedom of Information Act request reveals.
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HSJ Local
£5.4m to tackle waiting list backlog at King's
FINANCE: King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust was given £5.4m of its top-sliced 2 per cent funding back by NHS London to tackle a waiting list backlog at one of its main providers.
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HSJ Local
UHBristol fails to treat colo-rectal cancer patients sensitively
PERFORMANCE: A fifth of cancer patients at University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust felt they were not told about their diagnosis senstively enough, the result of the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey for 2011-12 reveal.
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HSJ Local
North Bristol Trust cancer patients complain of cancelled procedures
PERFORMANCE: North Bristol Trust was in the worst performing 20 per cent of trusts for changing admission dates for cancer patients, according to the results of the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey for 2011-12.