All St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust articles – Page 18
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CommentLondon trusts encouraged by delayed 'drop dead' date for FT status
So what does the slackening off of the pressure behind the foundation trust pipeline mean for London, the most stubborn of regions in resisting an all-FT health service?
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Acute trust announces its potential merger partners
STRUCTURE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospital Trust on the Surrey/London border has announced Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals Foundation Trust and the Royal Surrey County Hospital FT are interested in merging with Epsom Hospital, with St George’s Healthcare Trust interested in St Helier Hospital.
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Cluster considering centralising pathology services across five PCTs
STRUCTURE: The south west London primary care trust cluster is looking to centralise the procurement of pathology services as part of a wider review of care.
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Continued under-performance on ambulance handover times at London A&Es
PERFORMANCE: A strategic health authority report has revealed continued under-performance on ambulance handover times at the capital’s accident and emergency departments.
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Moorfields selected to provide community opthamology services in SW London
STRUCTURE: The specialist trust has been chosen by commissioners to provide community eye services working out of its Queen Mary’s Roehampton and Teddington Memorial Hospital.
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SW London cluster considers hospital pathology and pharmacy consolidation
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust cluster has launched a clinically-led review of services across the health economy and said consolidation options were being looked at across its acute trusts.
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Withdrawn document lists amounts paid out by London's Challenged Trust Board
FINANCE: A report, now taken off the North Central London primary care trust cluster’s website, lists the pay-outs made to the capital’s challenged trusts - but indicated remaining debts of £422m
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London's acute trusts achieving 82 per cent of their CIPs in Feb
FINANCE: A document submitted to NHS London’s delivery group in April itemises each trust against its savings target and found a capital-wide variance of £69m against plan - some trusts achieving less than half their target.
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Figures reveal extent of funding gap for London specialist trusts
FINANCE: London trusts received £50m in funding last year to cover above tariff costs in specialist services, which they will not receive this year.
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Chair of non-FT announces departure one week after chief exec
WORKFORCE: The chair of St George’s Healthcare Trust, Naaz Coker, is to step down in October, shortly after chief executive David Astley announced he was leaving.
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HSJ LocalHospital chief executive steps down after board delays FT application
STRUCTURE: A London hospital trust chief executive has stepped down, saying the trust board’s decision to delay its foundation application “has led me to consider my position”.
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Confidential report sets out quality issues for every provider in the region
PERFORMANCE: A confidential report commissioned by NHS London has listed the strategic health authority’s quality concerns about the capital’s provider bodies.
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Epsom and St Helier misses MRSA target
PERFORMANCE: The Surrey and London borders acute trust had 11 MRSA cases in 2010/11 against a target of seven.
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Smaller trusts forced to rethink FT plans
STRUCTURE: Several smaller trusts that could not confirm the date on which they will apply for foundation status had previously been confident of achieving it.
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NewsAcute trusts' FT plans slip back a year
More than a quarter of the acute trusts still bidding for foundation status have seen their application date slip by over a year.
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Sutton and Merton has largest QIPP saving plan in the SW London cluster
FINANCE: The primary care trust has a savings target of £23m for 2011-12, compared to the sector’s total of £64.5m
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Croydon Health Services cancer referrals measure down on last year
PERFORMANCE: The acute and community services provider saw a fall of nearly 10 per cent on its performance against the target for two-week maximum wait for urgent suspected cancer referrals from GP to first outpatient appointment.
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NHS London predicts five trusts will end year in deficit
FINANCE: Five acutes and one primary care trust in London are expected to finish the financial year in deficit, according to strategic health authority board papers.
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NewsHip replacement patient length of stay falls 25 per cent in five years
Length of stay for hip replacement patients has fallen by 25 per cent during the past five years but variations between trusts remain, according to information company Dr Foster Intelligence.
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St George's behind income and expenditure plan agreed with SHA
FINANCE: The south west London trust is £2.4m behind the total agreed with NHS London.