All London articles – Page 186
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HSJ Knowledge
Streamlining interpreting services in the NHS
Changing the way interpreting services are used can save money and improve patient care, as Roz de Silva explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Ethnicity recording: an unequal race?
Lord Darzi's vision for the NHS expects us to deliver 'effective, higher quality services that are safe, personalised to individual needs, and equally available to all'. Yet the Healthcare Commission's 2007 web audit of race equality found only 9 per cent of NHS trusts were publishing all that is required ...
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Managers who went from Richmond House to the NHS
Life at the top of the health service is enough to make even the toughest go-getter think of quitting, which is what our interviewees did - only to jump back in at a more grass-roots level. HSJ finds out about now and then
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News
Royal Marsden's cool heads and smart systems
In the wake of the west London fire, Ingrid Torjesen looks at how the hospital coped and whether emergency planning has moved on since 7/7
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Patients bid to save Henderson Hospital
Inpatients of Henderson Hospital at South West London and St George's Mental Health trust have launched a legal bid to prevent its closure.
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Hospitals' teamwork saves lives at Marsden
When fire ripped through the Royal Marsden specialist cancer hospital in west London last week, the first phone call was to the fire brigade and the second to the Royal Brompton heart and lung hospital around the corner.
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Royal Marsden open to patients again
The Royal Marsden Hospital in south west London has opened to patients for the first time since suffering a major fire last week.
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David Lee on managing risk
One of the joys of NHS management is that you learn something new every day - sometimes an awful lot. Take, for example, the assurance framework and risk register. Not long ago, if I'd been asked about them in a pub quiz I'd have had to guess. But now I ...
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News
N Ireland change leader to take NHS London job
The chief executive of Northern Ireland's shadow Health and Social Care Authority is to leave the NHS there for a job with NHS London.
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HSJ Knowledge
Secure care: improving life in locked wards
The latest specifications for housing patients in medium secure care clarify the rules and include welcome proposals to improve life in locked wards. Rebecca Norris reports
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News
London trust praises devolution
University College London Hospitals foundation trust is claiming significant savings and improvements in service quality by devolving budgets to clinical leads and directors.
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News
Figures underpinning Darzi's London review 'dodgy'
Questions have been raised over the 1.4bn annual savings identified in junior health minister Lord Darzi’s blueprint for healthcare in London.
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Managing A&E demand
An inner London PCT with a high number of Bangladeshi people going to A&E ran a campaign which altered attendance behaviours
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News
Counterfeit condoms warning
Consumer advice body Consumer Direct London and condom manufacturer Durex are warning people in London to check packets of Durex condoms before they use them after counterfeit condoms were seized across the city.
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News
New practices for under-doctored areas
Thirty-eight primary care trusts identified as having the poorest provision of GPs have been selected as the first to benefit from 100 new GP practices over three years.
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HSJ Knowledge
Cancer care - reaching out to communities
The Bengali Cancer Health Advocacy and Cancer Awareness Service was set up to address the needs of the Bengali community in Tower Hamlets. Caroline Moren and Ruth Bradley report on its progress
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Comment
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on clinician-led management
Why don't we accept the need for inspiring leaders, wherever they come from?
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News
3,000 staff to get performance bonus
Staff from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital foundation trust have each been awarded a £100 bonus to celebrate the organisation's excellent performance.
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Maternity services and breastfeeding: a lot of bottle
Unicef estimates four in 10 English maternity hospitals make no effort to encourage more mums to breastfeed. Daloni Carlisle asks what can be done to get them on board
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News
Gay Africans with HIV face double stigma
Gay and bisexual African men living with HIV in London face a dual stigma, with many not disclosing either status to their family and friends, according to a study by the Centre for the Study of Sexual Health and HIV at Homerton University Hospital foundation trust.