South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1505
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HSJ KnowledgePutting a stop to preventable deaths
Using morbidity and mortality meetings to help reduce deaths in hospitals
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CommentMental health support is essential to crisis care
Urgent care services for physical and mental health are fragmented
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HSJ Local
HEFT slips on orthopaedic waiting times
PERFORMANCE: Heart of England Foundation Trust met its overall waiting lists target despite trauma and orthopaedics and general surgery lagging behind the 18 week performance standard.
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NewsExclusive: Nine CCGs planning overspends in first year
Nine clinical commissioning groups are forecasting multimillion pound deficits in their first year, HSJ has learned.
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CommentCMO forges ahead, while tabloids make a hash of things
The Mail’s outrage at Sally Davies’ student days is out of touch
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NewsOver-40s health checks dubbed 'waste of time'
Health checks offered to millions of people over 40 are a waste of time and could lead to people taking medicines unnecessarily, the head of the Royal College of GPs has said.Dr Clare Gerada said the government was promoting its NHS Health Check programme “against good evidence”.Her intervention comes after ...
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NewsHuge leap in number of bids to curb liberty
A record number of requests have been made by hospitals and care homes to deprive people of their liberty, figures show.
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NewsHSJ Live 21.08.2013 Health tourism 'a myth'
International organisation slams Jeremy Hunt’s plan to restrict access to health services for migrants.
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HSJ KnowledgeA shift in leadership through shared training
The benefits of investing in training for senior residents
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NewsHSJ releases Android app
HSJ’s tablet app is now available for Android devices. Users can download it from the Google Play store.Android users can download the HSJ app from the Google Play storeThe new app means Android users can access HSJ’s award-winning journalism on the move or save it to read offline. It contains ...
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Blogs
FOI exemptions revisited
When not busy writing this page, End Game likes to while away the day composing fiendishly worded freedom of information requests, mainly because the ingenuity so many public organisations display as they find reasons to not respond to them is a joy to behold.So take a bow, Northamptonshire County Council, ...
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NewsLandmark prescription laws come into force
The UK has become the first country in the world to allow physiotherapists and podiatrists to prescribe drugs to their patients.
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NewsPatient feedback hub launched but 2015 target reconsidered
NHS England has “soft launched” a flagship transparency project which allows patients to give real time feedback on their hospital experience.
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NewsHSJ Live: 20.08.13 Debate over value of NHS Health Checks
Researchers claim NHS Health Checks are a waste of time, delays to the national launch of real time patient feedback hub and the rest of today’s news and comments
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HSJ KnowledgeThe NHS must brace itself for a data deluge
Looking at how best to use the wealth of healthcare data available
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CommentA merry-go-round of perverse incentives
Outcomes based commissioning. What could possibly go wrong?
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Blogs
A leadership balancing act
It seems that successful senior managers who give interviews fall into two types: the ‘people people’ and the macho managers; neither are helpful role models.
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NewsAgency staff spending expected to rise
Spending on agency staff in NHS hospitals is predicted to climb as frontline pressures intensify, according to a report shared with Health Service Journal.
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NewsExclusive: CCGs abandon flagship regional pathology reorganisation
Clinical commissioning groups have abandoned a £500m flagship regional reorganisation of pathology services, dealing a major blow to efforts to bring about major changes in the sector, HSJ can reveal.