South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 395
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Hospitals are still neglecting mental health
Acute hospitals are still not taking mental health patients seriously enough, argues HSJ’s Rebecca Thomas in this week’s Health Check podcast. We also get an update on covid pressures on the health system.
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News
UPDATED: Trusts with the highest proportion of covid patients
Charts showing covid-19 occupancy of hospital beds, by trust and by STP.
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News
NHS doubles covid test ‘capacity’ in three days as T&T looks set to hit 500k target
Test and Trace looks likely to hit its 500,000 daily covid testing target, after declaring huge leaps in NHS labs capacity over three days.
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HSJ Local
Teaching hospital closed fifth of its beds after covid-19 outbreak on wards
A large teaching hospital in the south west temporarily closed a fifth of its beds this week after outbreaks of covid-19 on several wards, HSJ understands.
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: Fall in training set to have major impact on future workforce
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, will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...
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News
Liverpool admissions flatten as covid accelerates in Manchester, Yorkshire and Notts
Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire are now seeing the highest numbers of new coronavirus cases in hospital, while Liverpool Cheshire and Merseyside – hit early in the second wave — has seen a drop in new cases in recent days.
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HSJ Local
Region will have just five CCGs by April
The capital is set to have just five clinical commissioning groups by April, after hold-out GPs in one north west London CCG belatedly sanctioned the merger on their patch.
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: The incognito inquiry
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ Local
Two trusts in Greater Manchester suspend some electives
Two hospital trusts in Greater Manchester have suspended some non-urgent elective care, with one also taking steps to move some cancer procedures to alternative sites, HSJ understands.
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News
Private children’s unit shut down after CQC safety concerns
A privately run child and adolescent mental health unit has been closed permanently, with its residents moved elsewhere, after concerns were raised about their safety.
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News
Ambulance chiefs tell hospitals it's 'not acceptable to delay transfers' due to covid
Ambulance bosses say patients are being put in ‘dangerous’ situations, as tighter infection control measures and busy emergency departments have left them waiting up to three-and-a-half hours to be transferred.
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News
Third of covid care home deaths in one region
A third of all covid deaths in care homes in England over the past three weeks have been recorded in the North East and Cumbria – with Sunderland a particular hotspot, new data has revealed.
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News
Teaching hospital’s new boss leaves ‘after 57 days’
A new site chief for King’s College Hospital left the organisation shortly after joining, amid significant turnover in the foundation trust’s executive leadership team, HSJ has learned.
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: Unacceptable
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ Local
NHS England launches investigation into staff concerns at leading trust
NHS England has commissioned an independent investigation into allegations raised by staff at a leading cancer trust.
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Comment
Promoting equality and diversity through the BAME Staff Network
Kettering’s goal is to drive positive change that will impact equality, diversity, and inclusion amongst staff, and promote a safe and confidential environment to raise any issues and concerns, writes Carol Verner
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News
Exclusive: Major hospital trust cancels electives as covid soars
One of the biggest hospital trusts in England will imminently cancel some elective operations, as covid-19 admissions rise steeply in Yorkshire.
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HSJ Local
GPs vote overwhelmingly to form England’s largest CCG
The seven clinical commissioning groups in north east London will merge by April 2021 after GPs in the health system voted overwhelmingly in favour of the move last week.
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HSJ Local
CCG lead condemns ‘heartbreaking’ visiting rule at local hospitals
A GP commissioning leader has publicly criticised hospital visiting rules at local hospitals, after hearing that a stroke patient was denied seeing family or friends for six weeks.
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News
Discharge rules a ‘risk to patients and should change’
National hospital discharge policy could pose a ‘risk to patients’ because local areas may treat it as a ‘target’, two major patient groups have said.