South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1984
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HSJ Local
IT upgrade increases admin workload for staff
PERFORMANCE: Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust is still stuggling to capture accurate performance data four months after an IT system upgrade.
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HSJ Local
Imperial plan to make £4.8m of £70m finance programme through increased income
FINANCE: The west London acute trust, which finished 2010-11 with a qualified account from its auditors, submitted the figures as part of its savings plan for 2011-12.
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HSJ Local
Lord Darzi called in to review the future of Academic Health Science Centre
ORGANISATION: Professor Lord Darzi, the former health minister, is to chair a review of Imperial College Healthcare Trust’s Academic Health Science Centre “and advise on its future direction”, documents seen by the HSJ reveal.
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HSJ Local
Staff changeover leads North Cumbria University Hospitals to fall behind on savings
FINANCE: At the end of the first two months of 2011-12 the trust had made savings of just £126,000 against a plan to save £15.2m for the full financial year, according to its latest finance report.
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HSJ Local
Royal Devon and Exeter submits £19m building plans
STRUCTURE: Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust has submitted a planning application for a £19m research centre on the trust site.
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HSJ Local
Cumbria PCT plans to use SHA “top slice” to offset 2010-11 deficit
FINANCE: Cumbria primary care trust’s 2011-12 financial plan assumes it will be able to use the two per cent of its budget held back by NHS North West to offset the £5.9m deficit recorded by the commissioner last year.
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HSJ Local
Torbay to become foundation trust
STRUCTURE: The board of Torbay Care Trust has approved plans for the organisation to pursue becoming a foundation trust.
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Comment
Michael Dixon: it's time for general practice to get real
I faced a difficult career decision 28 years ago. I wanted to go into general practice, but should I opt for a rural practice, where biomedicine had a clearer role, or for inner city practice, where needs were greater but medicine seemed less important?
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Blogs
Trying to force equality in leadership is an unbalanced approach
The NHS breakthrough programme of putting a small number - around 60 - of black and minority ethnic managers through a leadership programme and hoping this will result in more BME senior managers isn’t working. It was a little naive to think it would.
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News
Exclusive: draft authorisation document reveals key tests for new commissioning groups
A draft Department of Health plan seen by HSJ reveals key details of the development and authorisation process for clinical commissioning groups.
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News
Dr Foster promises 'more collaboration' with trusts
Dr Foster has backtracked on plans to publish new indictors on cancer and obstetrics with this year’s Hospital Guide and promised it will listen to trusts more in future.
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News
Hepatitis 'epidemic' warning as cases grow
An “epidemic” of hepatitis C will get worse without immediate action to start tackling the problem, a leading doctor has warned.
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HSJ Local
North Yorkshire and York practices join five emerging CCGs
STRUCTURE: GP practices in North Yorkshire and York PCT have joined one of five emerging clinical commissioning groups.
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HSJ Local
All Warwickshire practices join four CCGs
STRUCTURE: All GP practices in Warwickshire PCT’s area have joined one of four emerging clinical commissioning groups.
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HSJ Local
Wolves GPs form one large and one small consortium
STRUCTURE: GP practices in the Wolverhampton City PCT area have all joined one of two emerging clinical commissioning groups.
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News
Troubled care home provider to close second site
The company at the centre of allegations of abuse of vulnerable patients is to close a second care home, it has been announced.
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HSJ Local
5 Boroughs scores highly for involvement of service users’ families in CQC survey
PERFORMANCE: The foundation received the highest score in the country for involving service users’ loved ones in their care, in a new Care Quality Commission survey of people who use community mental health services.
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HSJ Local
One large and one small CCG emerging in Walsall
STRUCTURE: A large 53-practice clinical commissioning group, and a small 14-practice CCG, are emerging in Walsall.
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News
Quarter of NHS trusts 'have weaknesses in securing financial resilience'
Almost a quarter of NHS trusts have notable weaknesses in their arrangements for securing financial resilience or challenging how they secure value for money, their auditors have warned.
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HSJ Local
All Devon practices members of eight emerging CCGs
STRUCTURE: All GP practices in Devon are signed up to one of eight emerging clinical commissioning groups.