South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1757
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HSJ Local
SE Coast has higher than average HCAI prevalence
PERFORMANCE: The prevalence of healthcare associated infections in the South East Coast region is slightly above the national average, according to a report from the Health Protection Agency.
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News
Author of seminal NHS funding review Sir Derek Wanless dies
Sir Derek Wanless, the former banker whose seminal 2002 report laid the theoretical foundations for the following decade’s huge increases in NHS funding, has died.
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News
Top managers set to escape regional pay
The NHS’s most senior managers should not receive localised rates of pay, the Department of Health has said.
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HSJ Local
Cumbria CCG given estimated operating budget of £13m
FINANCE: The clinical commissioning group set to replace NHS Cumbria has been allocated an indicative running costs budget of £12.8m, a paper published by the NHS Commissioning Board today shows.
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HSJ Local
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals removed from significant breach
FINANCE: Foundation trust regulator Monitor today confirmed that Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Trust was no longer in significant breach of its terms of authorisation.
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News
Minister rejects cancer drugs fund
The Welsh health minister Lesley Griffiths has told a group of top medics she is standing firm on the issue of a cancer drugs fund for Wales, saying the scheme would not work.
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News
New patient rating system plans welcomed
Patients will be able to rate the treatment they receive in hospitals to ensure that people are treated with dignity and respect on wards, the prime minister will announce today.
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News
Exclusive: HSJ Clinical Commissioning Groups Map Tool
HSJ reveals the 212 clinical commissioning groups authorised to go forward as announced by the Commissioning Board today.
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HSJ Knowledge
How patient perspectives can help improve service design
Patient opinions are a precious source of information. Natalie Cook and Keith Miller explain how to make listening to them a fundamental part of service design.
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News
'Landmark' agreement on 212 CCGs covering England
The NHS reforms have reached the “landmark moment” of agreeing the clinical commissioning groups which will go forward to take over budgets next year, the NHS Commissioning Board has said.
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HSJ Local
Norfolk and Norwich at risk of breaching authorisation
One of the East of England’s largest foundation trusts is at risk of being found in breach of its authorisation by Monitor.
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News
Treasury targets off-payroll public sector salaries
The chief secretary to the Treasury has stressed that all public sector employees “should be on the payroll and paying the correct amount of tax”.
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News
Minimum alcohol price set to become law
Plans for minimum alcohol pricing will be approved in Scotland today, which will become in the process the first part of the UK to pass the legislation.
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Blogs
The active patient tracking list
How active PTLs work to minimise waiting times continuously and safely for all patients.
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Comment
'It is within leaders' power to make things better'
Professor Chris Ham on leadership for engagment.
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News
Ombudsman's claims on care quality complaint 'did not stand up '
An apparent failure to fully investigate a high profile complaint has led to a renewed call for changes to the system.
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Comment
Michael White: will information strategy deliver on its promise?
And will it bring healthcare IT into the 21st centrury?
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Comment
Wait control: a new system for better waiting list management
Waiting times expert Rob Findlay on better patient tracking lists.
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News
Overnight discharge data questioned as hospitals hit back
Misleading data has emerged as a possible explanation for claims that hospitals discharge large numbers of patients in the middle of the night.