South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1930
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HSJ Local
Bucks data returns held up by RIO
PERFORMANCE: Installing the RIO information system has caused delays in data collection at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
New inpatient unit to open at Suffolk MH trust
COMMERCIAL: A new inpatient mental health facility is due to open at Suffolk Mental Health Trust next week.
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HSJ Local
Cameron and Lansley dragged into staffing dispute at Chipping Norton hospital
STRUCTURE: The prime minister and health secretary have been asked to intervene in a row over whether a hospital should continue to employ NHS staff.
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News
NHS Commissioning Board chair announced
A barrister and academic who has advised government on genetically modified food has been named as the health secretary’s preferred candidate for chair of the NHS Commissioning Board.
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News
Lansley: 'honesty' needed to tackle obesity
People need to be honest with themselves about how much they eat and drink in order to tackle obesity, the government has said.
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News
Waiting targets being missed by one in three PCTs
A third of NHS trusts are breaching waiting times for treating patients - almost four times the number this time last year, figures show.
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News
NHS 'holding up well' but pressures growing, report warns
The NHS is “holding up well” at a national level but there are significant pressures in some organisations, according to a new report.
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News
Bennett warns against 'second guessing' merger rulings
Trusts involved in mergers should not “second guess” Monitor’s decisions or they risk having to “unwind” arrangements at taxpayers’ expense, the regulator’s boss has warned.
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Blogs
Latest RTT waiting times: August 2011
The NHS fended off its waiting time pressures in August, providing some much-needed breathing space as winter approaches.
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News
Commissioners may struggle with 'tight' PbR timescales for mental health
Plans to bring in payment by results for mental health next year could be delayed by the reorganisation of NHS commissioning structures, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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HSJ Local
Potential industrial action at two North West path labs, Unite warns
WORKFORCE: Two acute trusts in the North West could face industrial action in their pathology labs.
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HSJ Local
Oxford Radcliffe to review 'significantly higher than expected' death rate
PERFORMANCE: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust is to begin formally reviewing around 800 deaths a year after finding it has an unusually high mortality rate and was unable to identify what proportion of deaths were avoidable.
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HSJ Local
BANES rejects GPs claim for responsibility payment
FINANCE: NHS Bath and North East Somerset has agreed to pay GPs on the local clinical commissioning group a higher rate of backfill than neighbouring PCTs but has rejected requests for an additional “responsibility payment”.
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Supplements
HSJ special supplement: primary care
This week’s HSJ supplement takes a look at primary care, featuring articles on regulation, referral management, community services and sustainability.
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HSJ Local
Cases of C difficile fall at Gloucestershire's community hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Cases of clostridium difficile in NHS Gloucestershire’s community hospitals fell by 25 per cent in 2010-11 compared to the previous year.
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Supplements
HSJ Roundtable: regulating NHS managers
HSJ brings together an expert panel to discuss whether NHS managers should face regulation, and if so, how it should be enforced.
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Blogs
It's time to talk about values
The public sector’s values have become aligned in recent times to those of the private sector. It’s time to get back to what the public sector should stand for: doing the right thing.
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News
Hospitals failing elderly on care quality
A fifth of NHS hospitals are breaking the law on care of the elderly, according to a new report, with two trusts given prior warnings still leaving patients without intravenous fluids and one incontinent patient left unwashed despite asking for help.
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News
PCTs ordered to adopt single cluster board model
Primary care trust clusters must have a single board, executive team and chair, the Department of Health has said.
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Leader
Rewriting the rules of the blame game
An honest debate about the challenges and tensions of making management decisions in the NHS is hard to find.