South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2348
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NewsNHS back office savings worth £1bn
The NHS could save £600m-£1bn through sharing more back office services, according to research conducted for the Department of Health.
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CommentOur lives are in the cancer detectives’ hands
Helping GPs to hone their skill at identifying cancer early will go a long way to improving survival rates
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CommentHealth insurance is a game of poker, against an expert
“NICE is accountable to the public,” Lord Crisp - the former NHS chief executive - advised Parliament last week. “What we don’t need is to import American style private sector rationing where individuals find themselves the victims of decisions made in private by individual insurance companies where nobody is accountable.”
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NewsTelehealth could save NHS £2bn
The NHS is missing out on annual efficiency savings worth up to £2bn by failing to embrace remote monitoring and care, according to a report shared with HSJ.
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CommentAndrew Murrison on the military covenant
The British public is discerning. It may doubt the validity of UK involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan but gives the thumbs up to the means of its prosecution.
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CommentMedia Watch: targets and treatment
The last week and a half proved a good few days for journalists, but a less good few days for NHS managers and their staff.
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Comment'NHS cuts will come off a far fatter bird'
It won’t have changed your life much, but MPs have been squabbling for weeks now over the future size of the NHS budget under the coalition’s plans for the next five years. “Bigger or smaller?” critics demand to know. Yes or no, does it change anything?
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NewsNHS leads access-to-care survey
The NHS provides Britons with the most widely accessible treatments among 11 leading industrialised nations studied by an American think-tank.
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NewsAcademics criticise the pace of change
Academics have warned MPs the pace of the government’s reforms on commissioning will endanger the NHS, even if they are good policies in principle.
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NewsEx PCT chief exec loses £1m pension in tribunal case
A primary care trust chief executive who was dismissed one month before he was due to qualify for a an enhanced pension package worth up to £1m has lost a discrimination case.
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NewsMigration caps may jeopardise service quality and safety
Proposed limits on migrants from outside the European Economic Area could affect the ability of trusts to continue providing high quality patient care, NHS Employers has warned.
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NewsNHS cancer spending queried by National Audit Office
Huge variability in regional cancer spending suggests worrying inefficiency, the National Audit Office has warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
Clinical leadership
There are countless definitions of leadership, but the majority concur that leadership is about working with people and organisations to achieve goals and to produce change. While overlapping with management, there is an enhanced focus on change, vision, inspiration and empowerment.
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Multi-source feedback
The communication of effective and constructive feedback has long been a thorny issue in many an organisation, and not least the NHS.
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CommentWhat happened to courage?
A client describes the following scenario to me. The 24-year-old son of a close friend has lost his job in the fallout from the sudden collapse of the business in which he was working.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Managing Oneself
The first thing to strike me about this book was its (lack of) size. Managing Oneself is a reprint of an article from the Harvard Business Review, and at 55 small pages it is a distinctly slim volume.
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Data protection
Recent moves by the Department of Health to tighten up on data management mean that healthcare service providers must meet the international quality standard, ISO27001.
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Forecasting methods in healthcare planning
Current healthcare planning assumes that a combination of primary and community care initiatives and public health improvements will reduce the need for hospital beds, despite an increasingly elderly population.
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Electronic prescribing
Picture the scene. A doctor is attending a Fitness to Practise hearing at the General Medical Council. She stands accused of making a prescribing error which has lost a patient his life. The doctor is now fighting for her career.
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Future opportunities for PCTs
The formation of the GP consortia bodies is being seen as an opportunity to be grasped by the best of the PCT teams.