30-605: Vallance is a surname, and may refer to: Elizabeth Vallance (1945–2020), British philosopher, magistrate and policy maker Gerald Aylmer Vallance (1892–1955), born George Alexander Gerald Vallance, was a Scottish newspaper editor Iain Vallance, Baron Vallance of Tummel (born 1943) Scottish businessman Jeffrey Vallance (born 1955), American artist Jim Vallance (born 1952), Canadian songwriter Sir Patrick Vallance (born 1960), British doctor and Chief Scientific Adviser to
60-420: A major acute hospital , St George's Hospital also offers very specialist care for the most complex of injuries and illnesses, including trauma , neurology , cardiac care , renal transplantation , cancer care and stroke. It is also home to one of four major trauma centres and one of eight hyper-acute stroke units for London. St George's Hospital also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in
90-567: A mental health unit and two GP practices, bringing a range of multi-disciplinary professionals closer together. In December 2008, all St George's Healthcare services formerly provided at the Bolingbroke Hospital in Battersea, were relocated to St John's. St John's Therapy Centre was officially opened on Thursday 2 July 2009 by Professor Ann Keen MP , Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Health. A modern flexible building,
120-672: A football club in Bethnal Green, London See also [ edit ] Valance (disambiguation) Valence (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Vallance . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vallance&oldid=1127094764 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
150-535: A return of at least 3.5 per cent on its assets (land, buildings, equipment etc.) for the year and stayed within the Capital Resource Limit (CRL) approved by the Department of Health. In 2007 the trust received loans from the Department of Health totalling £34m to finance the deficits it had accumulated in the four-year period 2003/04 – 2006/07.The loans are repayable in full by March 2012. Since
180-521: Is a large community hospital housed in a state of the art, four-storey building containing all the modern equipment needed to offer the local population and its patients from around the world the latest treatment techniques. The rebuilt hospital was opened in the grounds of the original hospital in February 2006. Services continued to be delivered in the old hospital whilst the new building was developed. The development of Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton
210-617: Is based in Tooting in the London Borough of Wandsworth , and serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery , neurosciences and renal transplantation , also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex , totalling about 3.5 million people. As of 2018, the trust employs 9,309 staff. On 1 October 2010 St George's Healthcare integrated with Community Services Wandsworth, formerly
240-464: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Elizabeth Vallance Elizabeth May Vallance, Baroness Vallance of Tummel , JP ( née MacGonnigal ; 8 April 1945 – 9 July 2020) was a British philosopher, magistrate and policy maker. She held non-executive roles on various boards, and was High Sheriff of Greater London in 2009. Vallance was born to William Henderson MacGonnigal and Jean Brown Kirkwood. She studied philosophy at
270-497: Is one of the UK's largest teaching hospitals. It shares its main hospital site in Tooting , England with the renowned St George's, University of London which trains NHS staff and carries out advanced medical research . The hospital has around 1,000 beds and provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS hospital, such as accident and emergency , maternity services and care for older people and children . However, as
300-1247: Is open every day of the year offering treatment and advice on a wide range of injuries and illnesses. The Community Services Wandsworth division provides a wide variety of specialist and community hospital based services as well as providing community services to children, adults and older people. This includes district nursing , health visiting, specialist nursing, school nursing , family planning , sexual health , HIV services, haemoglobinopathies, community dentistry , occupational therapy , physiotherapy , speech and language therapy , dietetics , rehabilitation services and services for people with learning disabilities . These services are provided from Queen Mary's Hospital in Roehampton, Dawes House intermediate care unit, Tooting Walk-in centre, St John's Therapy Centre, Balham Health Centre, Bridge Lane Health Centre, Brocklebank Health Centre, Doddington Health Centre, Eileen Lecky Health Centre, Joan Bicknell Centre, Mapleton Centre, St Christopher's Health Clinic, Stormont Health Centre, Tooting Health Clinic, Tudor Lodge Health Centre, Westmoor Health Clinic, GP surgeries, schools, in people's homes and at Wandsworth Prison. In October 2017
330-505: The Border Force were stationed in the hospital to train staff to identify "potentially chargeable patients". In October 2016 the trust announced that it planned to require photo identity papers or proof of their right to remain in the UK such as asylum status or a visa for pregnant women. Those not able to provide satisfactory documents would be sent to the trust's overseas patient team "for specialist document screening, in liaison with
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#1732780849160360-576: The South East of England , for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma . Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre. Opened in February 2007 on the same site as its predecessor building, St John's Therapy Centre in Battersea brings together community-based therapy services,
390-619: The University of London . She moved to Queen Mary University of London , where she was promoted to Assistant Professor in Government and Politics from 1968. In 1985 she was promoted to Head of the Department of Politics, and was made an Honorary Fellow when she left in the early nineties. After leaving a full-time academic career, Vallance moved into the public sector, and was appointed Chairperson of St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust . She would later become Chair of
420-541: The University of St Andrews . She moved to the London School of Economics for her graduate studies, where she specialised in political philosophy and graduated in 1968. She was a Sloan Fellow at the London Business School . Her early research considered the role of women in society and the impact of women politicians on equality. Vallance started her career as a lecturer in philosophy at
450-457: The Department of Health in 2019, of which £3.5 million was to sort out the water supply after two cases of legionella. The trust issued invoices to patients thought to be ineligible for NHS treatment totalling £3.6 million in 2018–9, but only collected £0.5 million. In March 2016 the trust was rated as having a poor reporting culture in the Learning from Mistakes League . In October 2016 it
480-509: The Government of the United Kingdom Louise Vallance (born 1958), Canadian actress and singer Thomas Vallance (1924–1980), English football player Thomas George Vallance (1928–1993), Australian geologist and historian of science Tom Vallance (1856–1935), Scottish international football player William Fleming Vallance (1827–1904), Scottish artist Groups [ edit ] Vallance F. C. ,
510-563: The children's charity I CAN, which looked to support children in developing their communication skills. In 2006 Vallance was appointed by Tony Blair to the Committee on Standards in Public Life . In 2009 Vallance was appointed High Sheriff of Greater London . She was awarded an honorary doctorate in civil law from the University of Kent in 2013. She was made Chairman of Governors for Sutton Valence School in 2016. Vallance
540-428: The large trusts. The trust did very well in the 2014 cancer patient experience survey and has agreed to pair up with Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust , which did badly, in a scheme intended to "spread and accelerate innovative practice via peer to peer support and learning". In 2009/10 St George's Healthcare achieved a surplus on income and expenditure of £10.6m meeting its financial duty to break-even during
570-411: The new centre is much larger than its predecessor and allows patients to access a variety of services under one roof. The success of the building's architectural design was praised when it was awarded a Wandsworth Design Award in 2007. The awards, which are presented by Wandsworth Borough Council , recognise buildings that have made a positive contribution to the local environment. Queen Mary's Hospital
600-741: The provider arm of NHS Wandsworth. This integration saw Community Services Wandsworth become the Community Services Wandsworth division of St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, with the 1,200 members of staff becoming employees of St George's Healthcare under TUPE . St George's Healthcare incorporates St George's Hospital in Tooting and a full range of community services provided at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton , St John's Therapy Centre in Battersea , HMP Wandsworth , health centres and clinics, GP surgeries, schools and in people's homes throughout Wandsworth. St George's Hospital
630-543: The sale of NHS land will be invested in the Tooting and Tolworth hospitals. The trust reported that vacancies had reached 1/6 of the nursing workforce in July 2015. In April 2017 it submitted a request for £200 million to improve its buildings after the Care Quality Commission warned it about breaches in regulations related to safe and fit premises. It got £27 million in overall capital funding from
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#1732780849160660-429: The trust has stabilised its financial position it has been able to repay £18m of these loans over the last three financial years – £2m in 2007/08, £8m in 2008/09 and a further £8m last year. Under the terms of the loan agreement the trust was scheduled to make two further repayments of £8m each year in the next two years. The trust's bid to become a Foundation Trust was hampered by its financial problems. Its application
690-743: The trust lost the contract for community services in Wandsworth, worth £51.6 million to Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust HMP Wandsworth is the largest prison in the UK, with up to 1,665 inmates at any time. St George's Healthcare is responsible for providing a full range of health services at the prison. In September 2009 Community Services Wandsworth took over the running of health services at HMP Wandsworth after Secure Healthcare, who previously provided health services there, went into voluntary liquidation and ceased to trade. Community Services Wandsworth integrated with St George's Healthcare NHS Trust on 1 October 2010. St George's Healthcare
720-470: The year. This is the third successive year the trust has made a surplus after incurring deficits between 2003 and 2007. With regard to its other financial duties, the trust stayed within its external financing limit (EFL) – using slightly less cash to fund its services and to meet its obligations than the allowance set by the Department of Health . The trust also met its capital cost absorption duty earning
750-425: Was forced to outsource 125 general surgeries to Spire Healthcare and Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust because there were 118 patients waiting more than a year for treatment and it could not meet the national waiting times target that 92% of patients should wait no more than 18 weeks. It was in special measures from 2016 until December 2019. In the summer of 2015 immigration officers from
780-530: Was funded as a PFI scheme. Queen Mary's Hospital provides outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, mental health community services, a minor injuries unit, burns dressing clinic, limb fitting services, a sexual health clinic, 69 mental healthcare beds, 50 elderly and intermediate care beds and 20 rehabilitation beds. Queen Mary's sees over 130,000 patients a year. In 2009 the hospital's Minor Injuries Unit saw 16,500 people come through its doors to be treated by an emergency nurse practitioner . The unit
810-854: Was involved with various mental health charities, serving as Chairperson of the Centre for Mental Health . the National Autism Project and YoungMinds. In this capacity she oversaw the development of the YoungMinds organisational strategy, helping to implement the response to the COVID-19 pandemic . In 1967 Vallance married Iain Vallance, Baron Vallance of Tummel , with whom she had two children. She died in July 2020. St George%27s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust , formerly called St George's Healthcare NHS Trust,
840-514: Was named 2009 Large Trust of the Year by the independent Dr Foster Intelligence , publisher of the Hospital Guide. Researchers studied data supplied by hospitals across the UK, and awarded St George's one of the top scores and the top Band 5 rating across 13 safety indicators, leading to a fantastic score of 97.26 out of 100. St George's was joint third out of all trusts taking part, and top of
870-486: Was placed in special measures after it was rated inadequate by the Care Quality Commission . The trust chairman Sir David Henshaw said: "There will be no quick fix to the problems we face."Many of these challenges are due to very poor board and senior management decisions in the past and a failure to tackle the big challenges head on. 25% of patients with suspected cancer did not see a cancer specialist within two weeks though 93% should do so within that time. In 2019 it
900-417: Was repeatedly deferred but finally succeeded in February 2015. It plans a cost improvement programme for the 2014/15 financial year of £45.2m and a further £45.8m for 2015/6 but expects to finish 2014/5 with a £10 million deficit. In March 2015 it was announced that 3 mental health wards at Queen Mary's Hospital will close and beds will be reduced from 153 to between 108 and 126 beds by 2021. £160m from
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