South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2590
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CommentCally Bann on fiddling expenses
A spotty-faced cub reporter at the Battersley Evening Bugle has put in a request under the Freedom of Information Act for a detailed breakdown of all board expenses claimed in the past 24 months.
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CommentAli Parsa on the meaning of value
With the squeeze on health funding getting tighter, commissioners must spend less. But bargain hunters beware - low cost services do not necessarily offer good value
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CommunityBruce Almighty
We know everyone at the Department of Health is very busy, but NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh’s workload is getting absurd.
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CommunityLookey-Likey: David Stout and Richard Thomas
NHS Confederation primary care trust network director David Stout has more in common with information commissioner Richard Thomas than just looks: both take a keen interest in freedom of information laws, on which Mr Stout has penned a report.
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NewsTrusts in the dark over cost of private patients
How much should NHS hospitals be charging to make a profit on private care? With foundation trusts’ income cap up for debate, Sally Gainsbury looks into costs, calculations and rates of return
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NewsPotential bidders circle as first NHS trust goes up for grabs
Twenty-two NHS organisations, including one based 200 miles away, are vying to take over the first trust offered up for competitive takeover.
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NewsNHS may face over £6bn annual cuts
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has warned that the health service faces annual savings equivalent to cuts of more than £6bn from 2011 onwards.
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NewsNew NHS tariff upsets PCT financial plans
Cost inflation caused by the introduction of the latest version of the payment by results tariff could hit primary care trusts’ preparations for the financial downturn, commissioners have warned.
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CommentMedia Watch: Alan Johnson does his own PR
The weekend before last, The Independent ran an interview with Alan Johnson in which, in answer to a question about whether politicians would ever be trusted again, the health secretary said the political system needed a complete “overhaul” and called for voters to be consulted on proportional representation.
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CommentMichael White on the patient-consumer parallel
It is always good to hear the NHS’s top brass trumpeting the service’s virtues, as NHS chief executive David Nicholson did when launching his third annual report. At least his list of modest triumphs serves to counteract some of the negativity generated by more regular reports of NHS failures in ...
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SupplementsDivide and conquer: how patient segmentation can beat inequality
Tackling health inequalities is one of the most complex and important tasks facing the healthcare system today.
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NewsSwine flu confirmed in further 47 people
Swine flu has been confirmed in a further 47 patients, the majority of whom are children.
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NewsGP incentive system delivers disappointing results on diabetes
The GP incentive scheme has not had the dramatic impact on diabetes care that was predicted when it was introduced five years ago, researchers have found.
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NewsNICE backs complementary therapies
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has given its backing to complementary therapies for the first time.
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BlogsLook, it’s a Darzi vision – in multicolour!
Roughly a year after the Darzi documents were published, it is time to look back. That process may be gratifying, inspiring or horrifying, but it will almost certainly be tedious.
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NewsMonitor costs could double in three years
The cost of regulating foundation trusts will nearly double in the next three years, Monitor anticipates.
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NewsCompetition panel looks at NHS provider shift
The co-operation and competition panel is to investigate plans to transfer a primary care trust provider arm’s services to a foundation trust.