South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1906
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HSJ Local
Cancer target missed at Dartford and Gravesham
PERFORMANCE: Dartford and Gravesham Trust has missed the 62 day target for treating cancer patients for the last five months.
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HSJ Local
Complaints up at Dartford and Gravesham
PERFORMANCE: Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust had 48 formal complaints in September, up from 20 the month before.
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Comment
Michael White: let's back the public sector plan B
At the weekend I rang an old trade union friend, a veteran of countless public sector negotiations, disputes and occasional strikes, to hear him contradict my own excessively rational view (“don’t do it, comrades”) of the pensions dispute which threatens NHS services this month.
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HSJ Local
George Eliot loses £1m of capital resources to bail out another trust
FINANCE: The West Midlands strategic health authority is to take £1m of capital funds out of George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust to another provider.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells loses member of finance team
WORKFORCE: Mick Bull, deputy finance director, is being seconded to Dartford and Gravesham Trust for a year as director of finance.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells confident of breakeven
FINANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust is still forecasting breakeven for the financial year, despite the added costs of its new PFI hospital at Pembury.
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HSJ Local
George Eliot recruits more nurses to improve skill mix
WORKFORCE: Twenty-two new band five nurses started work at George Eliot Hospital in October, with at least another four expected to start in November.
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News
Fraud costing NHS '£3bn a year'
Dishonest doctors, healthcare staff, patients and contractors are costing the NHS more than £3bn a year in fraudulent activity, a report has claimed.
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News
Care home company administrations double
The number of UK care home firms which have recently gone into administration has doubled, according to the latest analysis.
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News
Lansley to announce 'ban' on minimum waiting times
The health secretary is to announce a “ban” on primary care trusts setting minimum waiting times for procedures, with the threat of “removing the chair of the PCT” if it is broken.
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HSJ Local
North Bristol awards call bell contract for new PFI
COMMERCIAL: Healthcare technology specialist The Wandsworth Group has been awarded a contract worth more than £1m to design, manufacture and install a nurse call system for North Bristol Trust’s new hospital.
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HSJ Local
Poole warns of deficit
FINANCE: Poole Hospital Foundation Trust is warning it may fail to achieve its planned £200,000 surplus and could finish the year in deficit.
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HSJ Local
Former council chief exec appointed to major review of Trafford acute services
STRUCTURE: A former chief executive of Stockport Council has been appointed chairman of a major review of hospital services in Trafford.
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HSJ Local
Eight practices opt out of Derby 'fairer funding' deal
FINANCE: Eighty six GP practices in Derbyshire have agreed to a “fairer” funding formula but patients in rural areas whose practices have not signed up to the deal could see worsening access to services.
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HSJ Local
Referrals fall in Gloucestershire
PERFORMANCE: GP and consultant to consultant referrals have fallen by three and six per cent respectively at Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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News
Exclusive: commissioning board to include 50 local medical directors
The NHS Commissioning Board will include around 50 local branches, each with a medical leader, its chief executive Sir David Nicholson has decided.
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HSJ Local
North Cumbria chief warns staff trust has entered 'financial crisis'
FINANCE: The chief executive of a Cumbria trust slated for takeover wrote to staff yesterday warning that the trust was now in “financial crisis” and would urgently investigate the scope to bring forward ward closures and other savings plans.
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News
Clusters ordered to begin stocktake of 75,000 service contracts
Primary care trust clusters will have to complete a detailed stocktake of their 75,000 service contracts by the end of March 2012, in preparation for transferring them to successor commissioning bodies the following year.
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News
Circle's risk on historic Hinchingbrooke deal capped at £7m
Circle Health’s potential loss on its contract to run Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust has been capped at £7m.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: prominent CCG chair fears DH will impose 200,000 population minimum
STRUCTURE: An emerging London clinical commissioning group and its patient forum are lobbying the health secretary to protect it from forced merger, after the CCG’s chair raised concerns.