South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1801
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HSJ Local
North Manchester CCG picks reverend as lay chair
STRUCTURE: North Manchester CCG has picked Tim Presswood, a lay member and minister of a baptist church, as its chairman.
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HSJ Local
Cumbria CCG to buy support from North East CSU
COMMERCIAL: The NHS Commissioning Board has finalised commissioning support arrangements in Cumbria and Lancashire.
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HSJ Local
United Lincolnshire chief executive resigns
WORKFORCE: United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust chief executive Andrew North has announced he will be leaving the role at the end of November for personal reasons.
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News
BMA elects new consultant chair
The British Medical Association has announced Paul Flynn, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Swansea, has been elected as new chair of its consultants committee
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HSJ LocalLegal challenge to Virgin's children's services contract
COMMERCIAL: A primary care trust’s decision to award a £132m contract for children’s services to Virgin Care is to be challenged in court next week.
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NewsPrivate acute admissions hit record level
Surgical admissions by independent hospitals have hit a record high - driven by NHS admissions rather than spending by private patients - according to a new report.
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Blogs
NHS enterprise has been given a freer rein
Absurd restrictions on FT income have at last been lifted
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NewsBurnham vows to repeal Health Act
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has promised to repeal the controversial Health Act should Labour win the next election, scheduled for 2015.
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NewsWard rounds being neglected - RCP/RCN
Short term gains from reducing ward rounds are outweighed by the improvements they bring to patient safety and timely discharge, according to clinical leaders.
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NewsGas technique used to kill hospital bug
Scientists have invented a new way to destroy a bacterium which killed four babies in hospitals in Northern Ireland.
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NewsHunt cautious on NHS spending plans
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said he will not make any commitments to future increases in health spending.
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HSJ KnowledgeDeveloping a legacy
A cancer network in Dorset is supporting the development of a clinical commissioning model for the local PCT
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HSJ KnowledgeBrought in from the cold
Homeless adults have helped to redesign services to better meet their needs
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NewsManchester’s major shake-up revealed
HSJ can reveal details of a major review of healthcare across Greater Manchester which makes the clinical case for a radical redesign of services. It is believed this could prompt some leaders to argue for the removal of acute surgery from four hospitals.
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CommentWhat’s at the heart of integrated care?
We need to agree on what integration means to have any chance of actually providing it
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NewsLondon clusters behind on QIPP savings
Most London primary care trust clusters were behind on their savings plans at the end of the first quarter of this year. The figures were revealed in an internal NHS London document on the progress of local efficiency programmes.
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NewsFlory: trusts still face April 2014 target for FT status
NHS Trust Development Authority chief executive David Flory insists there has been “no change” to the policy of driving trusts through the foundation trust pipeline by April 2014.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: a new metaphor
Health service chief executives have been fond of likening the balancing of the NHS books to landing a jumbo jet on a postage stamp.
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CommentThe many shades of grey
Health evidence is often unclear, so decisions have to be made with a large degree of uncertainty
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CommentThe information revolution
Putting most statistics we hold in the NHS into the public domain will unquestionably drive change