South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2445
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HSJ Knowledge
Randomised control trials
Randomised controlled trials often encounter problems in meeting recruitment targets, but insights from a recent successful trial can help future recruitment efforts.
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HSJ Knowledge
Economic survival guide
The NHS thinks it is having a tough time financially. But this is just the beginning of a long-drawn out process of adjustment as the UK falls into an economic abyss.
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HSJ Knowledge
Medical student training
The transition from medical student to doctor is one that is often made with much trepidation. While medical schools work hard to equip students with the necessary skills, the role undertaken by employers is playing an increasingly significant part in this process.
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HSJ Knowledge
Funding innovation
Dr Kathy McLean looks at how healthcare providers can make best use of the £220m innovation funding to improve working practices and deliver quality of patient care
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HSJ Knowledge
Social networking
Following a successful pilot, the surgery centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead has adopted Justvisiting.com, an online service for patients and carers to meet up and talk with their friends and family in hospitals.
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HSJ Knowledge
Chlamydia screening guide
Getting value for money from your chlamydia screening campaign requires careful consideraton.
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Community
Mass appeal
The Conservatives promise in their manifesto to provide communities with ringfenced public health cash, “weighting public health funding towards the poorest areas with the worst health outcomes”.
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Community
Dickensian stats
The award for the most ingenious use of a misleading statistic in a manifesto goes to (drum roll please…) the Tories, for the following: “The difference in male life expectancy between the richest and poorest areas in our country is now greater than during Victorian times.”
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CommentCally Bann: NHS manager bashing
Will I be glad when it’s all over… Letting it be known that you’re the chief executive of the local hospital has always had the proclivity to silence the most genteel of dinner parties, or to quell the cacophony at the most boisterous of pubs.
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Comment
Media Watch: volcanic ash and manifesto launches
They did their best but so far no one has found a splash-worthy NHS angle to the dust cloud story.
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NewsElection 2010: fight for marginal puts hospitals in the hot seat
Neck and neck competition between political parties in marginal constituencies is leaving acute trusts braced for the political heat. Sally Gainsbury identifies the trusts to watch
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NewsGordon Brown debate hit
Almost half of NHS managers surveyed by hsj.co.uk said Gordon Brown won the argument on the health service in the first of the televised party leader debates.
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NewsScotland poll
Scotland health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has launched the first official poll to elect members to Scotland’s health boards.
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News
Delay on campus closure target
The government will miss its target to close all NHS “campuses” for people with learning disabilities by the end of this month, a Department of Health report has revealed.
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CommentMichael White: the election debate
In turbulent times this column’s reputation as a non-panic zone serves it well. Swine flu, Alan Johnson for PM, delinquent volcanoes, we take them all in our stride. So too the Lib Dem election surge since Nick Clegg’s quite good performance in the TV debate.
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SupplementsHealthcare computing: investing in informatics
Investment in IT and rigorous pursuit of good returns are more important than ever and demand careful selection of information technologies.
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HSJ Knowledge
Neurophysiology
Gwam Rajiah looks at the issues confronting neurophysiology departments around the UK
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HSJ Knowledge
Self care planning
The financial downturn has led to a frenzy of activity to increase productivity at lower cost but improved quality. This is indeed a challenge for the NHS. Given the management of long term conditions in the NHS utilises 70 per cent of the expenditure in the NHS, a focused ...
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News
Lincolnshire chief
United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has appointed Andrew North as chief executive, after the previous chief executive was sacked following a disciplinary hearing in February.
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NewsCommissioning has 'singularly failed' on long term conditions
Improving commissioning for long term conditions is vital to the health service’s survival, NHS Alliance chief executive Michael Sobanja has warned.