All UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST articles – Page 12
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HSJ LocalFewer smokers using NHS cessation services in Islington
PERFORMANCE: The number of smokers using cessation services in the Islington area has dropped markedly – raising concerns that the local CCG will not achieve its quality premium target for 2014-15
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HSJ LocalCCG investigates ‘alarming’ rise in teenage suicides
PUBLIC HEALTH: Commissioners in London is to investigate the reasons behind an ‘alarming’ increase in the number of teenage deaths on its patch since 2011, with a focus on cases of suicide through hanging.
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NewsTrusts ‘unanimously’ reject NHS England's reduced specialist funding offer
London teaching hospitals have turned down an offer from NHS England to pay just a quarter of their previous allocation for highly specialist treatments.
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NewsExclusive: Shelford Group medical directors rail at tariff plans
Medical directors from England’s 10 biggest teaching hospitals have written to their counterparts at NHS England and Monitor to warn that controversial new tariff plans will damage patient care and lengthen waiting times.
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NewsCQC rejects accusations of Hinchingbrooke bias
The leaders of the Care Quality Commission team that rated Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust ‘inadequate’ today issued a strong rejection of claims that their inspection was biased.
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CommentWaiting list initiative ends with a sprint but achieves little
The waiting list size hardly budged
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NewsAcademic health science networks bid for greater strategic role
The most advanced academic health science networks should play a greater strategic role in service reconfigurations, leading AHSN figures have said.
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SupplementsRoundtable: A new charter for integrated care
HSJ gathered a group of experts to discuss the integrated care challenge
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NewsFTs will resist forced expenditure on primary care
Foundations trusts will ‘furiously resist’ any attempt to push them into ploughing their accumulated surpluses into primary care as envisaged by the NHS Five Year Forward View
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HSJ KnowledgeVideo: NHS patients given airline style safety briefings
Video aims to cut avoidable complications
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SupplementsHSJ Roundtable: How to tackle the workforce planning issue
Addressing present and future demands
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HSJ KnowledgeKeep up with change: The trusts transforming the outpatient pathway
How six trusts are keeping up with the increasing expectations on services
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NewsOne in 10 trusts lack permanent finance chief, reveals HSJ analysis
Almost one in 10 trust boards does not have a permanent finance director amid one of the biggest ever NHS funding squeezes, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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NewsNaylor: The current government did not understand the NHS
The chief executive of one of England’s most high profile trusts has said the government did not understand the NHS when it came to power, and that recent health service reforms have created ‘a bureaucratic monster’.
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NewsHSJ reveals the top healthcare employers
Four clinical commissioning groups are among the top 10 Best Places to Work in healthcare
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University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust
Best Places to Work 2014 – acute trust
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NewsService centralisation hailed in new research
Centralising stroke services can save the lives of patients and reduce the number of days people spend in hospital, a new study suggests.
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NewsMajor reorganisation of specialist cancer and cardiac treatment approved
A reorganisation of specialist cancer and cardiac treatment across north east London and West Essex that will see two major hospitals host one specialism each was given the green light by commissioners last week.
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NewsHospital trusts should be free to become mutuals, DH advised
Acute trusts should be free to become staff-led mutual social enterprises in an effort to improve staff engagement, a Department of Health commissioned report recommends.
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HSJ LocalUCLH turns up heat on specialised commissioners
PERFORMANCE: University College London Hospitals has warned it may have to consider “curtailing access to services” if NHS England is “unwilling to agree contract volumes” for the foundation trust’s specialist services.