South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1876
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Comment
Media Watch: 'postcode lottery' bingo follows Atlas of Variation launch
The formal publication of the second NHS Atlas of Variation led inevitably to a chorus of “postcode lottery” headlines this week.
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News
Managers divided over local pay options
NHS leaders are divided over a possible move away from national pay bargaining, although most managers with responsibilities over pay bills support greater local flexibility.
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Comment
Sally Gainsbury: economic peace and goodwill, or Armageddon?
Perhaps it is just seasonal religiosity, but it is starting to look as though 2012 will see some significant battles between the NHS’s competing spiritual forces.
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HSJ Knowledge
How engagement within intermediate care can prevent admissions
A pilot study of prevention-focused intermediate care services looked to evaluate the approach of engaging with patients and staff as a way to improve efficiency and avoid admissions. Dawne Garrett runs through the results.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to meet QIPP challenges in end of life care services
A review of palliative care services at one PCT led to the creation of a commissioning strategy that met both the DH’s end of life brief and the QIPP challenges. Andrea Ching explains what NHS Berkshire West did.
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Comment
All eyes on London's billion-pound merger after SHA sign off
By the time you read this, NHS London will almost certainly have signed off the Barts/Whipps Cross/Newham merger.
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Comment
Emergency planning requires urgent attention in the Midlands and East of England
Earlier this year, HSJ tried to use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain details of exercises held in every region to test emergency planning preparations. But the request was rejected by the Department of Health in order to “safeguard national security”.
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News
Specialist care housing model costs NHS less
Specialist housing integrated with care provision puts less strain on the NHS than residential care homes, according to an independent evaluation for the Department of Health.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why shifting DVT management into primary care can improve clinical outcomes
DVT can be clinically very difficult to diagnose but early recognition and appropriate treatment can improve clinical outcomes.
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HSJ Knowledge
Where is the NHS equivalent of the strategic defence and security review?
The so-called “radical” health reforms are for the large part anything but, but they raise a central point about an imbalance in the NHS workforce and its sustainability in the current system. This needs to be addressed urgently, writes Robert Royce.
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News
Scrapped NHS IT System to cost a further £2bn
The American company behind the National Programme for IT has predicted it will earn up to another £2bn from its work with the NHS.
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Comment
'Delivering better community services requires equal relationships'
Delivering public services through equal and reciprocal relationships between providers and the communities they serve should be at the heart of commissioning community services, and achieving integrated care, says Victor Adebowale.
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HSJ Local
NHS Hertfordshire to plan future of local hospital
STRUCTURE: The PCT and West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust are to work together to develop Hemel Hempstead Hospital as a local general hospital providing a range of services for the community.
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HSJ Local
Herts CCGs overspend affecting PCT
FINANCE: Clinical commissioning groups in Hertfordshire are spending far more planned - leaving the PCT as a whole overspent at the end of month six.
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HSJ Local
NHS Cambs needs £22m savings
FINANCE: NHS Cambridgeshire needs to find more than £22m of savings before the end of the financial year if it is to breakeven, the board heard.
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HSJ Local
Chlamydia cases falling in Cambridgeshire
PERFORMANCE: The number of people tested for chlamydia in Cambridgeshire fell by a third in October compared with the same period the year before.
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HSJ Local
Delayed transfers of care major issue in Cambs
PERFORMANCE: Delayed transfers of care could become a major issue in Cambridgeshire this winter, the NHS Cambridgeshire board was told.
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HSJ Local
NHS Cambs breaches diagnostics waiting target
PERFORMANCE: Nearly 400 patients in Cambridgeshire waited more than six weeks for diagnostic procedures in the first half of this financial year - against a zero target.
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HSJ Local
Cambs struggling on Choose and Book
PERFORMANCE: Practices in Cambridgeshire are struggling to meet a new target of 90 per cent of first outpatient appointments being made through Choose and Book if they are to qualify for a local enhanced service payment.
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HSJ Local
Board report confirms preference for single Cambs and Peterborough CCG
STRUCTURE: One clinical commissioning group could cover Cambridgeshire and Peterborough - but with local commissioning groups bringing together practices.