South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1953
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HSJ Local
Cheshire and Merseyside consider merging family health support services
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust cluster’s board has heard a proposal to save £1.06m by merging two shared services organisations to create a single family services agency for Cheshire and Merseyside.
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HSJ Local
NHS Blackpool banks £2.4m QIPP savings in four months
FINANCE: The primary care trust had achieved £2.4m of its planned £8.1m quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings by the end of July, board papers state.
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HSJ Local
NHS Central Lancashire predicted to miss QIPP savings target by £1.4m
FINANCE: The primary care trust was forecast to miss its £18.1m quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings target for 2011-12 by £1.4m, cluster board papers state.
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HSJ Local
NHS Blackburn with Darwen ‘banks’ 90 per cent of 2011-12 QIPP savings in four months
FINANCE: The primary care trust had achieved 90 per cent of its planned £6.3m quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings just four months into the financial year, board papers state.
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HSJ Local
NHS East Lancs books £12.5m of QIPP savings in four months
FINANCE: The primary care trust had achieved 57 per cent of its planned £22.1m quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings four months into 2011-12, board papers state.
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HSJ Local
Bradford hospital begins service change talks with patients
STRUCTURE: Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has begun an informal consultation with the public, commissioners, GPs, staff and patients about “priorities for the development of future hospital services”.
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HSJ Local
Four clinical directors step down at Sunderland Hospitals
WORKFORCE: Four clinical directors are stepping down from their posts at City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust for differing reasons.
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HSJ Local
Gas leak closes services at Royal Hampshire hospital
PERFORMANCE: A gas leak at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester has caused services to close today.
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News
Health reforms 'a strategic mistake'
Ministers have promised further changes could be made to the government’s controversial health reforms as the plans were branded a “huge strategic mistake” by a senior Liberal Democrat.
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News
Vulnerable adult protection to be improved - Burstow
Vulnerable adults will be protected in the same way as children by the next general election, the Liberal Democrat social care minister Paul Burstow has said.
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News
Non-GPs must get exec roles, says top Lib Dem
Clinical commissioning groups should be required to have a nurse and doctor with secondary care experience involved in executive decision making roles rather than on a governing board, Baroness Shirley Williams has said.
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Comment
Can US models of care delivery inform how CCGs should work?
Thomas Cawston’s latest blog from the Fundació Josep Laporte European Health Policy Innovation Seminar in Harvard, MA, looks at two initiatives hoping to transform how healthcare is delivered in the US - which could have key lessons for CCGs in the NHS.
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HSJ Knowledge
How pairing clinicians with managers could speed up clinical excellence
‘Buddying’ clinicians with managers could help both groups collectively create an environment where clinical excellence is inevitable. Bob Klaber and colleagues report.
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HSJ Knowledge
The toolkit hoping to revolutionise the use of patient discharge data
Trusts have struggled with delivering patient discharge summaries rapidly to GPs. It is hoped that a new interactive toolkit will guide organisations through developing electronic systems that will overcome the problems, says Daloni Carlisle.
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HSJ Local
Return to MSA target breach status at Medway
PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust this month recorded six breaches of the Department of Health’s guidelines on mixed sex accommodation.
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HSJ Local
Slight worsening of MSA performance in Surrey and Sussex
PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust this month recorded nine breaches of the Department of Health’s guidelines on mixed sex accommodation.
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HSJ Local
First gastric bypass op at Ashford and St Peters’
PERFORMANCE: Consultant surgeon Samer Humadi and his team at Ashford and St Peter’s hospitals undertook the trust’s first ever gastric bypass operation this month.
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge improves on mixed sex breaches
PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust this month recorded 163 breaches of the Department of Health’s guidelines on mixed sex accommodation.
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HSJ Local
Dartford breaches mixed target
PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust this month recorded three breaches of the Department of Health’s guidelines on mixed sex accommodation, representing a dip in form against the target.
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HSJ Local
Co-op wins Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals FT contract
COMMERCIAL: The Co-operative Pharmacy has been awarded a seven year outpatient dispensing contract with Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.