South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1950
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HSJ Local
Leicester GPs refuse to carry out health checks
PERFORMANCE: Only 33 out of 50 GP practices have signed up to the NHS Health Checks programme in West Leicester CCG.
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HSJ Local
NHS London raises bar for non-FTs with gloomy tariff assumptions
FINANCE: NHS London has ordered non-FTs to plan for a 1.5 per cent deflation in the tariff for the next five years in their applications for FT status.
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HSJ Local
University Hospitals Leicester asked for assurance on quality
PERFORMANCE: NHS Leicester City has written to University Hospitals of Leicester Trust after it failed to deliver on agreed improvement plans on a number of patient safety areas.
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HSJ Local
Manchester fires starting gun on major reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: Primary care trusts across greater Manchester have agreed to pool resources worth tens of millions of pounds a year to fund a major reconfiguration of the city’s planned and emergency hospital services.
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HSJ Local
Costs data submitted by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals ‘incorrect’
FINANCE: The foundation was among the 12 per cent of NHS trusts whose 2009-10 reference cost submissions were materially inaccurate, the Audit Commission reported today.
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HSJ Local
Change of plan for Bassetlaw community services
STRUCTURE: Bassetlaw Primary Care Trust’s community services, which had been due to become part of Rotherham Foundation Trust, will now go to Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust instead.
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HSJ Local
St George's to split HR director role with university
WORKFORCE: At a staff meeting, employees of the south London trust were told about plans to share the human resources director post with St George’s University of London medical school.
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Blogs
Say no to 'yes' men and women
As the Liberal Democrat conference draws to a close, opposition ministers have again targeted Nick Clegg for reneging on party policies and ‘selling out’ in forming the Tory-Lib Dem coalition. Can he ever be more than a “yes man”?
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News
Senior Lib Dem peer wants more 'teeth' for HealthWatch
The Liberal Democrat health spokesman in the Lords has called for the Health Bill to be amended to give HealthWatch more “teeth”.
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News
Exclusive: DH QIPP team takes over information strategy
The long-awaited NHS information strategy has been taken out the Department of Health’s informatics directorate, and is instead being led by the team responsible for the quality, innovation, productivity and prevention programme.
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News
Exclusive: GPs 'anxious' about conflicts of interest in commissioning, says doctors regulator
GP commissioners should tell a patient if budgets or referral policies mean he or she cannot access healthcare, and also raise the issue with their commissioning group, the doctors regulator has said.
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News
Sixty hospitals face 'collapse' over PFI deals, admits Lansley
More than 60 hospitals can not afford the rising cost of private finance initiative schemes and are being left “on the brink of financial collapse”, according to the health secretary.
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News
BMA rules out pensions action 'at this point'
Doctors’ leaders have ruled out industrial action “at this point” in the bitter dispute over public sector pensions despite voicing support for the TUC’s day of action in November.
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Comment
'The NHS needs to avoid the wrong kind of integration'
Now that the government accepts that integrated care has a major role to play in the NHS, we must avoid the pitfalls that could prevent it delivering proper benefits to patients, argues King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham.
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Leader
NHS giants sound warning of acute financial turmoil
The leafy villages of Great and Little Shelford lie around five miles south of Cambridge. Shelford boasts a rich history reaching back to the Domesday Book, but it is also has claim to fame in NHS circles.
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HSJ Local
Super merger plans let down by £116m PFI shortfall
STRUCTURE: A planned merger that would create England’s largest NHS trust would require £116m of support in its first year.
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News
Exclusive: top teaching hospitals under threat from tariff system
The payment by results tariff system could tip England’s elite teaching hospitals into deficit and damage the country’s medical research industry, their chief executives have warned.
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News
Providing integrated care won't be easier for CCGs, study suggests
Clinical commissioning groups will find it no easier than primary care trusts to provide integrated care unless they are able to overcome perverse incentives, a report has found.
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Comment
Reconfiguration plans grow in confidence in the South East
With reconfiguration no longer a dirty word following the approval of plans for Chase Farm Hospital, other trusts may be more confident in getting service changes through while a Whitehall wind is seemingly behind them.
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Comment
Sally Gainsbury: as if by magic... How the government conjured up a saving
The great news revealed in the recent NHS 2010-11 accounts is that commissioners spent significantly less on administration that year than was previously assumed.