South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 947
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NHS to face new patient safety investigations from autumn
Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch will have a budget of £3.6m in first year Expert advisory group calls for process to resolve historical complaints Mike Durkin hails launch of HSIB as “a huge leap forward” The new Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch will be operating from this autumn with a ...
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Exclusive: NHS England to help 'blacklisted' primary care whistleblowers
NHS England launches re-employment scheme for primary care whistleblowers Patient experience director admits NHS has not given enough attention to whistleblowing at CCGs A new NHS England scheme aims to get primary care whistleblowers back into work, but a senior figure has admitted it needs to do more ...
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Hunt rejected expert advice on independence of safety branch
Expert advisers urged health secretary to make new investigation branch independent They also called for all relevant information to be shared with patients and families Government actions risk undermining “effectiveness and public confidence”, says charity boss The health secretary rejected the advice of safety experts who urged him ...
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Spike in demand for 'off-payroll' interim trust executives
Requests for off-payroll trust executives increased from eight to 36 in a year The government has told the NHS to clamp down on off-payroll arrangements “Really good people aren’t staying in the service” warns expert There has been a sharp rise in requests from trusts to hire interim ...
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Daily Insight: The CQC's smaller, faster future
HSJ’s round-up of the day’s must read stories and debate
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Lansley: NHS not sustainable on current funding
Former health secretary Lord Lansley has warned the NHS will not be able to transform care using its current resources and told Parliament the proportion of GDP spent on the NHS cannot keep falling.
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HSJ Local
South east London CCGs consider centralising electives
FINANCE: Clinical commissioning groups in south east London are working on a plan that could see elective orthopaedic work concentrated on two sites.
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HSJ Local
Bexley CCG looks to make diabetes savings
COMMERCIAL: Bexley Clinical Commisioning Group is looking for ways to make savings in diabetes care, after problems agreeing a contract with providers.
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Expert Briefing
Lintern's Risk Register: War and peace
Everything you need to stay up to date on patient safety and workforce, plus my take on the most important under-the-radar stories. From patient safety correspondent Shaun Lintern
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CQC to review whether fit and proper person rule 'needs to change'
CQC to look at “learning points” from implementation of fit and proper person rule Review will examine whether CQC’s approach or the regulation itself “needs to change” Peter Wyman says CQC would be happy to run register of fit and proper managers if asked to The Care Quality ...
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Regulator’s budget cut may require job losses
CQC chief executive says it may have to make redundancies to cope with budget cut Funding will go from £249m in 2015-16 to £217m in 2019-20 David Behan promises “good management” to keep job losses to “an absolute minimum” The Care Quality Commission may have to make redundancies ...
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Expert Briefing
What's new in care models: What this year's vanguard funding settlement means
Tracking everything that’s new in care models and progress of the Five Year Forward View
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HSJ Local
CCGs head to court to overturn Virgin contract suspension
COMMERCIAL: Two clinical commissioning groups are going to court to overturn a contract suspension obtained by a local trust.
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Comment
Does social spending hold the key to better health?
Cutting expenditure on social welfare programmes has a detrimental effect on the health of a wide range of groups
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Analysis: 20 trusts behind half of A&E performance decline
Twenty trusts responsible for most of the rise in A&E four hour target breaches Eight of the trusts also drove last year’s decline Smaller trusts disproportionately driving the decline Eight trusts hit the 95 per cent target for 2015-16 overall Twenty hospitals trusts are responsible for more than ...
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HSJ Local
Agencies given ultimatum amid clash over pay cap
Staffing agencies that do not comply with salary caps introduced last month could be ejected from the marketplace, NHS Improvement has indicated.
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CQC to move to 'smaller and more frequent' hospital inspections
CQC to inspect every trust annually, examining how well led they are and one core service “as a minimum” High performing trusts will not undergo comprehensive inspections in future Providers will have to “give their view of the quality of care they are providing” as part of annual reporting ...
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HSJ Local
Community provider wins work in another London borough
COMMERCIAL: Central London Community Health Trust has taken over the provision of adult community health services in Harrow borough.
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HSJ Local
Orthopaedic specialist promises to hit RTT target by September
PERFORMANCE: The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Trust has made an agreement with NHS England to return to hitting waiting times targets by September.