All St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust articles – Page 17
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HSJ Local
New chief executive appointed to key London trust
WORKFORCE: A new chief executive has been appointed to a large non-foundation trust in London.
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HSJ Local
St George's to split HR director role with university
WORKFORCE: At a staff meeting, employees of the south London trust were told about plans to share the human resources director post with St George’s University of London medical school.
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HSJ Local
St George's paediatric medicine losing £4m to £5m a year
FINANCE: A report seen by the HSJ reveals the south London acute is losing up to £5m a year, largely down to excess non-elective admissions.
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CommentWill Lansley be red-faced after rubber-stamped reconfiguration in London?
By the time you read this there may have been news on a most contentious reconfiguration in the capital – namely whether the health secretary has found a way to rubber-stamp the downgrading of Chase Farm without losing face (which he has, just about - ed.).
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HSJ Local
St George's appoints new chair
WORKFORCE: St George’s Healthcare Trust have appointed a new chair.
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NewsExclusive: 500 avoidable deaths a year in London due to understaffing
There are more than 500 avoidable deaths a year in emergency care each year in London, a report obtained exclusively by HSJ reveals.
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HSJ Local
London trust wide of the mark on waiting times
PERFORMANCE: More than half of patients seen at North Middlesex University Hospital Trust in June had waited more than 18 weeks for treatment.
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NewsFifteen per cent of patients wait more than year at hospital
Fifteen per cent of patients faced waits of more than a year to receive elective treatment at one hospital trust, Department of Health figures reveal.
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HSJ Local
'Significant clinical risk' at St George's after doctors' letters are left unsent
PERFORMANCE: A report to the board said a serious incident investigation had been started after 5,000 letters went unprocessed.
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HSJ Local
Decisions on the organisational form of seven London trusts due in September
STRUCTURE: Seven London acute trusts are due to have decisions made about their future organisational form in September, an NHS London planning document says.
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NewsHealth minister calls for pause to 'reckless' reconfiguration of his local trust
Health minister Paul Burstow has said services could be put “at risk” by a hospital merger proposed near his constituency on the Surrey and London border.
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HSJ Local
St George's faces 'quality of data' issues with Cerner system
PERFORMANCE: The London teaching hospital went live with the Cerner Millenium system in March and its chief executive last month reported it is “facing issues with a large volume of data with no pathway ID and the quality of data”.
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HSJ Local
Seven compulsory redundancies at St George's, including one £100k settlement
WORKFORCE: The south London teaching hosital’s annual accounts showed seven compulsory redundancies in 2010-11.
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HSJ Local
Trust sells half its beds to rent them back
FINANCE: A hospital trust has sold half of its beds to a Dutch company for half a million pounds and is leasing them back, HSJ has discovered.
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HSJ Local
Interim chief executive for London trust
WORKFORCE: North West London Hospitals Trust has brought in former St George’s chief executive David Astley in an interim capacity.
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HSJ Local
St George's Healthcare misses its referral to treatment time target
PERFORMANCE: The south London acute saw 77.3 per cent of patients treated within 18 weeks of referral, against a national target of 90 per cent.
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HSJ Local
Nicholson says region's FT pipeline risks going backwards
STRUCTURE: Sir David Nicholson has written to the board of a strategic health authority saying “there is a real danger that by the end of 2011-12 many of these [trusts in the pipeline] will be a position where their ability to achieve FT by 2014 will have worsened”.
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HSJ Local
Minor concerns raised about nutrition standards at St George’s
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission said the trust passed standards relating to dignity and nutrition during a spot check, but improvements were needed to ensure performance was maintained on nutrition.
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HSJ Local
St George's says all clinical divisions must move to a profit
FINANCE: The minutes of the trust’s finance & investment committee said each of the clinical divisions had been asked to “improve profitability”.
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HSJ Local
London’s cost improvement programmes flatlined in last two months of 2010-11
FINANCE: St George’s Healthcare Trust ended the last financial year £5.4m behind plan because of failed savings plans and challenges from commissioners.