South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 751
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Exclusive: Inadequate trust to get rating upgrade despite maternity concerns
A trust in the West Midlands is expected to have its overall rating upgraded from inadequate to requires improvement, but will keep the inadequate rating for its struggling maternity services, HSJ has learned.
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Quarter of hospital patients denied rapid review – even on weekdays
More than a quarter of patients do not see a consultant within the first 14 hours of admission, new data from NHS England reveals.
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Subscribe to HSJ's new performance expert briefing
HSJ has launched a new fortnightly expert briefing for subscribers covering NHS performance.
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Analysis by trust: Large majority provide less consultant access at weekends
The majority of trusts continue to provide patients with less access to consultants at the weekend compared to a weekday, new data reveals.
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Daily Insight: The price of avoiding a 5 million waiting list
The must read stories and talking points in the NHS
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Sharp fall in elective admission rate
September’s admission rate was sharply down on recent years. However, waiting list management recovered, enabling a slight improvement in waiting times to 20.3 weeks. That’s still well above 18 weeks though, and the trend remains up.
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Do not overlook the real achievements of PFI
Paul Ridout on the role of PFI in the improvement of NHS facilities
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Quality improvement is not for the faint hearted
Embedding quality improvement into the fabric of the NHS organisations requires a fundamental shift in leadership, say Joni Jabbal and Siva Anandaciva
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Revealed: The cost of restoring 18 week waits
With some guesses about the costs per case, I calculate recovering 18 weeks sustainably might cost £2.1bn next year and £350m the year after, if other pressures and enough mainstream capacity are funded. Or £4.2bn next year and £1bn the year after, if austerity continues.
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New Getting It Right First Time leads announced
Clinical leads for three areas of the Getting It Right First Time programme have been announced.
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Cowper’s Cut: Send lawyers, guns and money to the antagonish
Who benefits from the recently leaked information about Simon Stevens being made personally responsible for NHS’s winter performance, ponders Andy Cowper
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Trusts could face regulatory action over out of area placements
Trusts could face regulatory action for not reducing the time people spend being treated at mental health inpatient units miles away from home, HSJ can reveal.
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Seven CCGs name joint accountable officer
A London sustainability and transformation partnership area has appointed a single accountable officer across its seven clinical commissioning groups.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Catch Up: Stevens sends a message and managers under pressure
Your essential update on health for the week
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Analysis: DTOCs fall but councils still miss government targets
The majority of councils have managed to reduce delayed transfers of care over the first half of 2017-18 but have still failed to meet government targets aimed at reducing pressure on hospitals, analysis of figures released on Thursday shows.
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HSJ Local
City's care system puts older people 'at significant risk'
The health and wellbeing of older people in Stoke-on-Trent is being put at “significant risk” by poor joint working between the council and clinical commissioning group, the Care Quality Commission has found.
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Accountable care providers may gain access to NHS pension
The government has launched a consultation to make it easier for independent providers and organisations involved in new care model and accountable care contracts to have access to the NHS pension scheme.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: NHSI condemns trust's 'significant' financial governance failings
A confidential report into a large acute trust has uncovered ‘significant’ financial governance failings over how it agreed its control total for this year, alongside irregularities in its consultancy spend, contracting and use of interim managers.
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Trust agrees patient data deal with DeepMind
Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust is set to roll out an app developed by artificial intelligence firm DeepMind, after signing a five year contract with the Google owned company.