South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 999
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BMA suspends strike action
The British Medical Association has announced that it has suspended next week’s planned industrial action by junior doctors.
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Agency bill predicted to hit £4bn this year
NHS provider trusts will spend £4bn on bank and agency staff in 2015-16, national NHS leaders told MPs yesterday.
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HSJ Local
A&E shake-up needs £490m 'external funding support'
Huddersfield to lose emergency services despite being twice the size of Halifax Plan will ensure full use of PFI buildings at Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax CCGs say plan will maintain high quality services using the resources available STRUCTURE: Commissioners may consult on plans to reconfigure acute services ...
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HSJ Local
Acute care vanguard awarded nearly £1m transformation funding
East Midlands vanguard project awarded £960,000 from NHS England Consortium of seven trusts shares radiology patient images Money needs to be spent by end of 2015-16 FINANCE: A consortium of seven East Midlands acute trusts has been awarded £960,000 to support its work as a vanguard site developing ...
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Comment
Capitalising talent: Plan for action on gender equality
Every January we all start out with renewed vigour to meet our New Year’s resolutions. Then we encounter the main problem – implementation. Penny Newman Penny Newman This is true of NHS change projects too: so many good intentions, discussions, research and papers, but implementation is often ...
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Exclusive: Government 'downgrades' independence of patient champion body
HSJ investigation establishes Healthwatch England’s role and independence have been “downgraded” Healthwatch England’s chair and chief executive have left in recent months - the chief executive will be replaced with a “national director” Its leaders will report to the CQC instead of directly to DH Norman Lamb says patient ...
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NICE releases safe staffing evidence reviews to HSJ
NICE non-executive directors conclude publishing evidence reviews is in the public interest Sir Andrew Dillon had argued publishing the reviews could disrupt the management of the NHS Guidelines for A&E nurse staffing have not been published The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has today released to ...
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HSJ Partners
How to solve the privacy and confidentiality riddle
Medical care is a team effort but patient data must be secure and privacy maintained at all cost. By Mark Davies
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Map: Which health systems are struggling the most?
This map shows which health systems are performing most poorly across a range of measures, and two which are performing well, according to HSJ’s analysis.
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Comment
How will services access the new Sustainability and Transformation Fund?
The Sustainability and Transformation Fund bears closer scrutiny and comes with a sting in the tail
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European rules boost patient record sharing flexibility
EU parliament deal “clarifies” ability of health providers to share data with social care and other bodies Data protection changes will increase admin costs for trusts, NHS Confederation says NHS bodies will be given greater flexibility to share patient data with social care providers and other organisations following ...
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Providers given ultimatum over access to £1.8bn bailout fund
NHS providers have till 8 February to sign up to “control total” financial targets for 2016-17 Only then can they secure a share of £1.8bn “sustainability and transformation fund” Regulators say “collective urgent action” needed to contain 2015-16 deficit NHS providers have been given until 8 February to ...
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Executive Summary: NHS priority top trumps
HSJ’s roundup of Friday and the week’s most important stories
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Regulators push for headcount cuts in last ditch drive to curb deficits
Regulators call for ”collective urgent action” to keep 2015-16 provider sector deficit down to £1.8bn Monitor and NHS Trust Development Authority to meet challenged trusts this month to agree additional measures “including headcount reduction” All trusts asked to consider range of additional measures to improve their financial positions before ...
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HSJ Local
18 week waits, January 2016: explore the maps
NHS waiting lists around England, updated for January 2016
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Comment
Why patient engagement might have prevented the doctors strike
Consulting the public could have averted the current conflict
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Comment
Healthier Together and the lessons of the big bad wolf
The three little pigs has echoes in the High Court judgment that should be heeded
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New DH permanent secretary appointed
Current education permanent secretary to move to DH Chris Wormald has previously worked at Cabinet Office and Department for Communities and Local Government Appointment comes at a time of extreme financial pressure The Department for Education’s top civil servant is to take over at the Department of Health ...
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Quality and finances 'cannot trump one another', say regulators
NHS Improvement and CQC say providers will be judged on delivering “the right quality outcomes within the resources available” Regulators promise to work together to send “single clear, consistent message” New staffing guidance and “care hours per patient day” metric due NHS Improvement and the Care Quality Commission ...