South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 840
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Comment
Making innovation meaningful for true advances in healthcare
Faster procedures with cross-specialty capabilities are vital to greater efficiency in the NHS, writes Dirk Vananderoye
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Comment
The future of the NHS demands hard questions
The health service of the 21st century needs to be more responsive to patients’ needs – mere financial efficiency is not enough
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HSJ Local
'Culture of fear' at inadequate private hospital, says CQC
Inspectors have described a “culture of fear” within the surgical theatres at a private hospital that largely treats NHS patients in Greater Manchester.
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News
Pay crackdown: Trust chiefs to sign off all agency shifts above £120
NHS Improvement says annual pay costs to increase by 3.3 per cent in 2016-17 But real terms reduction in costs against activity suggests productivity gains Trust chief executives must sign off agency shifts of £120 per hour or more Hospital chief executives are now expected to personally sign ...
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News
Revealed: Only three trusts hit 'reset' A&E targets
Just three hospital trusts have hit their lowered targets for accident and emergency performance, the latest data reveals.
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: Making the NHS's case to the Treasury
HSJ’s email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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Comment
The future is now for vanguards
As we mark the two-year anniversary of the launch of the vanguards, Samantha Jones takes a look at how their work is helping to address gaps in healthcare
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HSJ Local
Former CPS chief named chair of special measures trust
A former chief executive of the Crown Prosecution Service has been appointed chair of a struggling ambulance trust
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HSJ Local
CCGs to join up for STP-wide commissioning
All CCGs in West Yorkshire and Harrogate STP patch sign up to form a joint commissioning committee The 11 CCGs have signed a memorandum of understanding and terms of reference NHS England needs approve the changes to CCG constitutions necessary for the committee to make decisions on behalf of ...
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HSJ Local
'Festering' pay dispute is 'alienating workforce'
East of England Ambulance Trust faces deepening pay row with frontline staff Local MP and former health minister Norman Lamb says dispute is becoming a ‘festering sore alienating workforce’ Row centres on how soon paramedics can move to pay band 6 and compensation for delays to training East ...
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News
New London devolution deal postponed
A planned announcement on devolution in London, which was due tomorrow and expected to involve devolving health powers, has been halted less than a week after the “deal” was revealed in the budget.
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HSJ Local
Circle contract win means trust 'risks going in special measures'
PwC report says trust could lose up to £6.6m of income and risk being put into financial special measures Patient safety could be put at risk if Circle subcontracts MSK services to another provider, report says CCG says it is taking action to prevent the trust being destabilised ...
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News
New immigration charges could cost NHS millions
Immigration and skills charge could cost NHS millions of pounds from April NHS England chief nurse Jane Cummings says EU staff must be supported Government has overturned protections for EU staff ahead of Brexit talks NHS England’s chief nurse has called on the NHS to support European nursing ...
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Comment
Removal of the nursing student bursary is a reckless experiment
UNISON’s head of health Christina McAnea responds to a recent HSJ comment piece in which June Girvin argued for removal of the bursary
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News
Interim managers demand higher rates to offset tax losses
NHS Improvement says trusts have been asked to pay higher rates to agency workers to “offset their tax losses” Under new rules, agency workers must pay the same level of tax as substantive employees Changes will affect interim senior managers, locum doctors and other agency staff who set up ...
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News
CQC risk monitoring 'wrong more than right', study warns
Research finds the CQC’s risk monitoring could leave poor care undetected The CQC’s tool failed to identify more than half of inadequate trusts Analysis found the tool had an accuracy rate of 48 per cent The Care Quality Commission’s new system for identifying high risk NHS trusts could ...
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News
Exclusive: Warning over 'neglected' elderly mental health services
New royal college president elect vows to address neglected mental health services for older people Wendy Burn takes over as president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in June The president elect of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has warned mental health services for older people are being ...
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Pioneering trust and GP tie-up to bid for new care model contract
Northampton Healthcare FT creates new organisation with 3Sixty Care GP federation New partnership will bid and deliver contracts together and is “keen” to secure a local MCP contract once released The organisations have an “equal” share in the new company with three board directors each A Midlands trust ...