South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1773
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Comment
Sally Gainsbury: new bailouts required for new deficits
One dastardly deficit decision and where it got us.
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News
Social care bill delay sparks backlash
Health and social care organisations have warned the government not to kick the issue of social care funding “into the long grass”, following the absence of a full bill on the issue from today’s Queen’s Speech.
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HSJ Local
'Ward matrons' to manage care 24/7 at Sandwell trust
WORKFORCE: Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust is planning to create “ward matrons” in a bid to balance budgets and improve care quality.
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HSJ Local
Elective activity soars as emergency care drops at Sandwell trust
PERFORMANCE: Elective activity is more than 10 per cent over its planned level at Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust.
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HSJ Local
South of England region reports 'dramatic improvement' in stroke services
PERFORMANCE: The South of England strategic health authority cluster is reporting “dramatic improvement” in the number of patients receiving specialist stroke care in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Hampshire.
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HSJ Local
TCS procurement could trouble Torbay's FT ambitions
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust cluster responsible for commissioning services from Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care Trust has warned there is a “likely” and “severe” risk the organisation could struggle to achieve foundation trust status.
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HSJ Local
Cornwall ordered to pay £70,000 CHC costs
FINANCE: NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly has been found liable for almost £70,000 of Continuing Healthcare Funding for care of a patient dating back to 2006.
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HSJ Local
Royal Cornwall pursues AQP opportunity
COMMERCIAL: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust plans to make a submission to become a qualified provider of imaging services in Cornwall when the primary care trust opens them up under the any qualified provider policy.
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News
Lansley vetoes reform risk register publication
The government has vetoed the publication of a risk register on the implementation of its NHS reforms, which it had been ordered to publish by an independent tribunal.
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Blogs
Clinician involvement is key - but keep an eye on the cost
It is vital that clinicials are involved in setting new organisation structures and plans, writes Dr Jonathan Fielden, but they must be committed to the cause.
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News
Commissioning board announces regional directors
The NHS Commissioning Board has this afternoon announced that four primary care trust and strategic health authority bosses have been appointed as regional directors.
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News
NHS managers accept government pensions deal
Managers working in the NHS have voted to accept the government’s final pension offer.
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HSJ Local
Analysed: the future structure of community services in East Anglia
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of the key issues facing the NHS’s major health economies. This week, HSJ looks at the long term viability of community services in East Anglia.
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HSJ Local
'Big beast' required to counterbalance hospitals' power, says chief
STRUCTURE: A primary care trust chief executive has said he wants to see a local community services trust reach foundation status so there is a “big beast” to counterbalance the power of the acute sector in the East of England.
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HSJ Knowledge
Pathology service delivering clinical efficiencies and quality
At the forefront of innovative managed laboratory services for a decade, Roche’s new managed pathology service delivers an efficient, high quality end-to-end pathology service that answers to the individual challenges faced by clinical teams.
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News
Health economies rush to pilot year-of-care tariff
More than 90 sets of providers and commissioners have shown interest in becoming one of the six trial sites for year-of-care tariff trials, HSJ has learned.
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News
Health staff expected to join walkout over pensions
A fresh wave of industrial action will be held this week against the government’s controversial public sector pension reforms, with union leaders predicting that up to 400,000 workers could be involved.
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HSJ Local
NHS Wandsworth tenders weight management services
COMMERCIAL: The south west London primary care trust is advertising for a partner to provide weight managment services in schools and to adults.
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HSJ Local
University Hospitals Bristol ahead of plan on surplus
FINANCE: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust achieved a surplus almost 50 per cent ahead of plan for 2011-12.
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HSJ Local
Lessons learned from war injuries
RESEARCH: Lessons learned by doctors and surgeons treating injured soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan in the past decade have been set out in a new report.