South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1543
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CommentMichael White: an end to health tourism?
The government is making hay from plans to charge foreign NHS visitors
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NewsCCGs could get two year allocations
NHS England is considering giving clinical commissioning groups two year allocations from 2014-15, to enable them to transform services and plan efficiency gains over a period of more than a single year, HSJ has learned.
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NewsProposed organ donation law praised
Campaign charity the Kidney Wales Foundation has hailed a new organ donation scheme designed to boost vital transplant donors.
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NewsTrusts urged to reduce elective activity during junior doctor transition
Hospitals have been urged to consider further reducing elective activity during the junior doctor changeover in August to help tackle a spike in mortality rates.
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NewsDH considers legislation to ease information difficulties
The Department of Health is considering changing the law to give trusts power to use patient identifiable data for uses not directly relating to patient care, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsDH sets out new social care entitlement rules
Councils will have to provide social care services to all residents whose needs meet a nationally-set threshold, under plans published by the Department of Health.
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NewsHSJ Live 02.07.2013 PAC report blasts consultant contract
Public Accounts Committee sets out criticism of hospital consultants’ contract, and the rest of the day’s news.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to obtain public value in procurement
Challenging traditional methods of healthcare procurement
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NewsMPs attack 'missed opportunity' of consultants contract
NHS hospital consultants are being poorly managed and their 2003 contract was a “missed opportunity” which delivered poor value for money, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
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HSJ Local
Cambridge University Hospitals recruits leading academic to boost nursing care
WORKFORCE: Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed Professor Christi Deaton to head up a new programme to drive through research projects aimed at improving nursing care for patients.
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Blogs
Wicked whispers
End Game has been handed a set of emails showing how Department of Health flacks handled(ish) one of the more recent NHS crises.They made interesting reading, considering how divorced from each other NHS England and the Department of Health are supposed to be post-liberation of the NHS.In one, a Richmond ...
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Blogs
Chirpy man
It seems the NHS has been freed from central control to such an extent that it now occupies a mythical realm beyond the constraints of rational thought.It is only natural, post liberation, that we all think carefully about what everyone’s job actually is these days.But health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s deliberations ...
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NewsHunt 'prepared to look at' future of foundation trust policy
Health secretary speaks exclusively to HSJ on private healthcare, the purchaser-provider split, and the “bold” reforms to healthcare models needed on the 65th anniversary of the NHS.
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NewsExclusive: Hunt says 'concept' of NHS 111 must be re-examined
The government is reviewing the “concept” of the controversial NHS 111 service, just months after the chaotic official launch of the new system, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has told HSJ.
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NewsNHS England mulls open source patient record systems
NHS England is considering offering cash to trusts to develop “open source” software which it says offers flexibility and speeds up their development of electronic patient record systems.
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NewsCrackdown expected on NHS tourism
Loopholes that allow migrants to wrongly access free UK health care will be closed under a crackdown on abuse of public services next week, Jeremy Hunt is to announce.
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NewsMonitor reviews access to GPs
Monitor has launched a review into how easy it is for patients to access general practitioner services.
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NewsHSJ Live: 1.7.2013 Monitor to review access to GP services
Monitor launches review into general practice and the rest of today’s news and comment