South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1726
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Supplements
Information for commissioners: an HSJ roundtable
Getting commissioning right will depend on getting the right data. But what does that mean? And what can we do to deliver all the data CCGs will so desperately need in just 12 months’ time? Daloni Carlisle reports on a lively expert roundtable, in association with Civica.
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HSJ Local
Hospital and paramedic staff suspended after A&E death
WORKFORCE: Eleven NHS staff have been suspended by a Midlands hospital and West Midlands Ambulance service after an A&E patient collapsed and died.
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News
Just nine CSS managing directors appointed
Just nine out of the 23 managing director posts for commissioning support services have been recruited, it is announced today.
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Blogs
A mandate for bad waiting list management
The draft NHS Mandate will drive up waiting times, undermine the NHS Constitution, and be unfair to patients. Not what was intended, obviously.
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Blogs
Accountable care organisations: revolution or business as usual?
The Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act in the US could have wide ranging implications for the future of healthcare. Or could it?
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News
NHS Propco could 'destabilise' local health economies, social enterprises warn
Department of Health plans to create an independent property company to take over primary care trusts’ estate are likely to have a “considerable destabilising effect on local health economies”, social enterprises have claimed.
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News
Surgeons in warning over old equipment
Financial constraints on the NHS could lead to doctors operating on patients with outdated equipment, surgeons have warned.
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News
End-of-life care pathway 'used to cut costs'
Hospitals may be withholding food and drink from older patients so they die quicker to cut costs and save on bad spaces, leading doctors have warned.
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Blogs
Wider lessons from Imperial's long waits
How can we make the NHS more resilient against the risk of waiting times failures?
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Blogs
Lessons to learn from Barclays
Bob Diamond appears to have seen nothing, heard nothing or known nothing. So said the Treasury Select Committee. But is it possible for chief executives to know everything that is going on in their organisation? Clearly not, but they do need to know what they should know.
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HSJ Local
Central Manchester CCG plans £4.6m QIPP savings
FINANCE: The clinical commissioning group has developed quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) plans for savings totalling £4.6m in 2012-13.
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HSJ Local
Kent prisons adopt new rehab service
COMMERCIAL: Kent has backed a new drug and alcohol treatment model to stop addiction and re-offending.
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HSJ Local
Anti smoking push in Sussex schools
STRUCTURE: Sussex Community NHS Trust stop smoking service has launched a stop smoking education resource for teachers delivering personal, social and health education lessons to year 8-11.
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HSJ Local
Nominations open for Western Sussex’s first governor elections
STRUCTURE: Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust is asking its 7,500 public members to stand for election to its first Council of Governors.
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HSJ Local
Bowel campaign scuppers attempts to cut diagnostic waits
PERFORMANCE: Long diagnostic waits in Birmingham and Solihull have been blamed on the Heart of England Foundation Trust and a national bowel screening drive.
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HSJ Local
East Cheshire A&E introduces electronic clinical information system for GPs
COMMERCIAL: East Cheshire NHS Trust’s A&E Department can now collate and send clinical patient information to GPs electronically for all patients that attend the department.
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HSJ Local
Birmingham and Solihull faces £16.9m QIPP shortfall
FINANCE: Commissioners in Birmingham and Solihull have reported a £16.9m gap in their efficiency savings plans, accounting for 29 per cent of the total for this year.
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HSJ Local
Ambulance handovers miss target in Birmingham and Solihull
PERFORMANCE: All providers serving the Birmingham and Solihull primary care trust cluster failed to hit the required standard for ambulance handover times.
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News
SW pay consortium to press ahead with Agenda for Change plans
A consortium of 19 NHS trusts in the South West has met for the first time and agreed to press ahead with plans to break away from Agenda for Change.
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HSJ Local
Doncaster physios sent to Olympics
PERFORMANCE: Two senior physiotherapists at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust have been chosen from hundreds of applicants to provide high-level sports-specific rehabilitation and advice to British and international athletes during the 2012 Olympic Games.