South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2360
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HSJ KnowledgeCareer transition: your five steps to the future
The direction of your career might sometimes look scary - but it doesn’t need to be. Just follow Steve Preston’s tips for navigating the road to re-adjustment
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Comment'A good coach helps you to see the world as it really is'
Stress levels in the management community are higher than at any time since I joined it 41 years ago. At best, many managers face the loss of career prospects and life chances. At worst, they face the loss of employment and real hardship.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: The Managing Change Pocketbook
Some useful if not revolutionary tips for transition, says Liz Hedgecock
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NewsKent PCT to delay referrals in order to dodge overspend
A primary care trust in Kent has become the latest to announce it is reducing funding for IVF and low priority procedures this year in order to tackle rising acute activity, which risks a £40m overspend.
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NewsNew hospital death rates to be published in April
An official NHS death rate for hospital trusts will be published within six months and must not be ignored, the Department of Health was due to announce today.
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Comment'Major NHS reforms are driven by the heart, not the calculator'
Two things become apparent from recent parliamentary exchanges on the cost of anticipated large scale NHS redundancies.
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CommentYour Humble Servant: home front
‘We’re invading your privacy at home, and turning it into the outpatient clinic’
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HSJ KnowledgeAny future for non-foundation trusts?
The alternatives to foundation status are still shrouded in mystery, say Jo Eastaugh and Jonathan Shapiro
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NewsPrivate sector gets 6pc of big ticket NHS spend
Some 6 per cent of big ticket spending in the NHS is with the private sector, analysis by HSJ suggests.
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NewsDr Foster sticks with alternative death rate
One of the most prominent methods of comparing hospital death rates has been the hospital standardised mortality ratio, promulgated by firm Dr Foster and used to create its annual Hospital Guide since 2001.
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NewsTrust plans closure of seven wards
A hospital trust plans to close the equivalent of seven wards to get back into financial balance.
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NewsPatients will move between commissioners, warns GP
Patients will “get on a bus” to find care denied by GP commissioners, a senior doctor has told MPs and peers.
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LeaderThe new mortality indicator suffers from mixed messages
The debate over how hospital mortality should be measured and whether those measures reveal anything useful has rumbled on for the last decade.
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NewsGovernment scraps adult social services performance assessment
Annual performance assessments that rate local councils on adult social care are to be scrapped once this year’s ratings are announced later this month.
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LeaderGPs stung by maternity services rebuff
Who should commission maternity care? Health secretary Andrew Lansley has decided it should not be part of the “great majority” of services that GPs will eventually be responsible for.
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HSJ KnowledgePinning down patient opinion on mental healthcare
An audit tool has been successfully piloted to measure older mental health service users’ views. Seraphim Rose Patel and colleagues explain.
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NewsMore Tribal health staff jobs now at risk
Consultancy Tribal has launched another round of redundancies in a review of its health business.
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NewsCollege of Medicine denies link to homeopathy charity
The new College Of Medicine has denied it is linked to Prince Charles’s Foundation for Integrated Health, which controversially folded this year.
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NewsMental health hit by integration issues
Mental health patients are failing to benefit from personal care budgets because of poor inter-agency working.
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NewsBurstow's 'disappointment' over personal budgets
Care services minister Paul Burstow has spoken of his disappointment at the number of people whose care packages are paid for with a personal budget.