South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1708
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HSJ Local
Middlesbrough holds first health and wellbeing board meeting
STRUCTURE: The first meeting of the health and wellbeing board meeting for Middlesbrough was held in June.
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HSJ Local
South Tees buys 'responsive' website
COMMERCIAL: South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has launched a website, described by the firm which designed it as the first “responsive” site of any NHS trust.
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HSJ Local
Ron Calvert to run healthcare provider in Australia
WORKFORCE: Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust chief executive Ron Calvert is leaving to run a healthcare organisation in Australia, he has announced.
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News
Sharp fall in hospital infections
The number of people catching a killer bug during their stay in Welsh hospitals has dropped by more than a third in a year, a new report has revealed.
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News
Children's ward 'fully staffed again'
A children’s ward that did not admit patients for three weeks because of a staff shortage has returned to full service.
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NHS regulator drops 'Chinese walls' plan
Foundation trust regulator Monitor has scrapped its plan to build “Chinese walls” within its organisation to separate its existing role from its future responsibility to regulate the entire NHS healthcare sector.
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HSJ Local
Analysed: A&E performance in Bristol
This HSJ Local Briefing looks at how to reverse a decline in performance at Bristol’s A&E departments.
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News
Monitor drops controversial credit rating plan
Future healthcare sector regulator Monitor has scrapped many of the controversial restrictions it had proposed placing on providers of essential NHS services, including debt caps, external credit ratings, and curbs on dividend payments.
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Commissioners could be incentivised not to give services additional protection
Commissioners may be given a “financial incentive” not to designate large numbers of NHS services for extra regulatory protection, future sector regulator Monitor has suggested.
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Some 'abolished' PCT and SHA staff to stay on after April 2013
Some primary care trust and strategic health authority staff may be kept on for up to a year after April 2013 to help “close down” the abolished organisations, it has emerged.
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HSJ Local
Steep fall in long-waiters at Stockport
PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust has achieved a steep fall in the number of its patients that have been waiting more than a year for treatment, commissioner board papers show.
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HSJ Local
WWL clears backlog of patients waiting more than a year
PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust had cleared its backlog of patients waiting more than a year for treatment by mid-June, latest commissioner board papers show.
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HSJ Local
Bristol acutes to merge
STRUCTURE: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust and North Bristol Trust have agreed to work towards a merger, potentially creating an organisation with an annual turnover of almost £1 billion.
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News
Hospitals face 'voting booths' in A&E to measure patient experience
Hospitals may have to install voting booths in inpatient wards and A&E to measure patient experience, HSJ can reveal.
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Olympic beds donated to Tunisia
More than 300 hospital beds which featured in the Olympic Games opening ceremony are to be donated to hospitals in Tunisia.
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Patient dies in legionnaires' outbreak
One of the patients affected by a legionnaires’ disease outbreak has died in hospital, the Health Protection Agency has said.
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News
CQC whistleblower to stay on the board
The Care Quality Commission non-executive director who gave highly critical evidence to the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust Public Inquiry will stay on the regulator’s board, despite attempts by its chair to remove her.
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Caution urged on referrals to private centre
A local medical committee has taken the unprecedented step of warning local GPs to consider whether an independent treatment centre is the right choice for their patients.
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News
Alder Hey Children's Trust responds to court case decision
Alder Hey Children’s Foundation Trust has told HSJ it recognises consultant surgeon Edwin Jesudason as a whistleblower.
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Blogs
Olympic Legacy
As Danny Boyle has higlighted, the NHS is one of our great institutions, one to be out centre stage as we open the Olympics. So much great effort and focus is going into the preparation and smooth running of the Olympics and the health response. Let us ensure that there ...