South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 232
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HSJ LocalICBs must pay £1.7m for competition failure
Three integrated care boards have had to pay £1.7m to a technology firm, after commissioners manipulated a procurement, new figures reveal.
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CommentMarking your own homework and other stories
In the latest edition of the Blithering Informant, director of values-based stakeholder communications Martin Plackard brings you the latest news from the country’s most challenged integrated care board
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: How much have strikes cost the NHS?
Less than halfway through the financial year all 42 integrated care systems are in deficit.
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NewsMore trusts find RAAC concrete on estates
At least seven more trusts have confirmed lightweight concrete on their estates following NHS England-ordered reviews and widespread safety concerns, HSJ has found.
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NewsTrust boss accuses private provider of ‘overpromising and underdelivering’
The boss of a large acute trust has accused a private provider of ‘overpromising and underdelivering’ after significant problems emerged with a local arrangement which have piled further pressure on its waiting list.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: In search of bold policy
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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CommentThe seven ways AI can help ease NHS workforce pressures
AI technologies hold significant promise for alleviating workforce pressures and improving healthcare across the NHS, with applications in clinical decision-making, imaging, digital pathology, remote care, administrative tasks, operational efficiency, and patient communication, writes Thomas Burden
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NewsAmbulance sector vows to improve sexual safety
The ambulance sector has signed up to a consensus statement in a bid to tackle misogyny and improve sexual safety for its staff and patients.
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed a data strategy to enable clinical and operational transformation through data science and automation
In association with Integrated data is a vital component of the future NHS data architecture, offering the potential of more efficient operational processes and improved patient care. However, from even before vendor selection to after implementation and through attempted transformation efforts there are opportunities to ...
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News‘No alternative’ to paying more to struggling provider, ICB admits
An integrated care board has no ‘viable alternative’ to persisting with a contract for several struggling urgent treatment centres, and paying more for them to try to hire more staff, it has decided.
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HSJ PartnersNew Pilot to improve cancer outcomes and tackle inequalities launches in Dorset
NHS England InHIP programme, Dorset Integrated Care System Cancer Programme, NHS Dorset, Wessex AHSN, and Wessex Cancer Alliance partner with C the Signs to take an innovative approach to improve cancer outcomes and tackle inequalities across Dorset
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NewsHSJ intelligence congress to offer unique insight into national data strategy
NHS England’s chief data and analytics officer Ming Tang is due to give the keynote address at HSJ’s new Health and Care Intelligence Congress on 6 December.
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NewsICS salaries face eight-month wait for ministerial sign-off
Ministers took nearly four times as long to sign off integrated care board directors’ appointments as those of NHS trusts last year, HSJ has found.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: The trusts slipping the most on PM’s pledge
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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NewsPolice investigate trust for corporate manslaughter
Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust is being investigated for corporate manslaughter following Lucy Letby’s conviction for murdering babies while working on its neonatal unit.
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CommentWe must remember the lessons of the pandemic and prioritise lung health
A lack of funding for lung tests is leaving people with conditions like asthma and COPD at increased risk of being hospitalised this winter, a new report reveals. Sarah Woolnough, CEO of Asthma + Lung UK, says lung disease must be treated with the same urgency as other health conditions
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HSJ LocalTrust appoints fifth CEO in as many years
Embattled Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has appointed a new interim chief executive just a week after incumbent Stuart Richardson stood down.
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NewsNHS wastes ‘equivalent of 100,000 meals a day’
NHS England is throwing away the equivalent of 100,000 meals every day, its net zero food lead has said.
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NewsExperienced chief moves to fourth trust
An experienced chief executive who ran his system’s “gold command” covid-19 response has been named as the new boss of a teaching trust whose previous leader has moved to Gibraltar.
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NewsExclusive: Government and NHS in talks over £1bn funding gap
Government is in talks with national NHS leaders over how to fill an urgent funding gap of at least £1bn this financial year, HSJ has learned, as new analysis shows all 42 local integrated care systems were behind their own plans less than halfway through 2023-24.