South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2621
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Comment
Daphne Austin on NHS exceptional funding decisions
One aspect of priority setting that presents difficulties is funding requests for individual patients, particularly those based on alleged “exceptionality”.
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HSJ Knowledge
Alcohol screening at pharmacies boosts public health
Local pharmacy staff on the Wirral tactfully help people think about how much alcohol they drink, reports Lynne Greenwood
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Comment
Andrew Jones on a surgical safety innovation
Setting the quality objectives for a health and wellbeing organisation requires a focus on patient safety.
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News
NHS quality board members announced
The Department of Health has announced the 12 expert and lay members of the national quality board.
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News
Raising alcohol prices could save NHS £1bn a year
Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has proposed enforcing a minimum price of 50 pence per unit of alcohol in a bid to reduce the effects of drinking on health and society.
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News
Government accused of 'wanton experimentation on the public'
MPs have accused the government of “wanton large scale experimentation on the public” through poorly evidenced health inequalities policies.
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NewsPractice based commissioning: give GPs control or risk world class status
Primary care trusts will be restricted to the lowest score in world class commissioning unless they can prove they are supporting practice based commissioning.
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Comment
Angela Greatley on focusing on mental health
It has become an accepted fact among those of us who work in mental health that there is no health without mental health. But does the NHS think this way?Mental ill health is not just a hugely significant and costly burden on those who live with it. It is also ...
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Baby P report sparks review of health visiting
Health secretary Alan Johnson has launched a review of health visiting in response to Lord Laming’s report into the death of Baby P.
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Scottish BMA leader demands review of extended opening hours
The British Medical Association's lead Scottish GP has demanded a review of policy on extending GP opening hours in Scotland.
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NewsMixed progress on children's care training in hospitals
Hospitals have made mixed progress in training staff to provide good care to children, the Healthcare Commission has said.
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Leader
Patient safety: the first step is saying you have a problem
One of the more delicate steps in encouraging a patient safety culture was taken last week, with the first trust by trust breakdown of safety incident reporting.
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News
Sophia Christie on the next stage review and quality
Perhaps the most important contribution of the next stage review was to put quality and safety back firmly among the NHS's priorities.
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A new plan for cardiac and vascular disease
Cardiac and vascular disease urgently needs a strategy that goes further and wider than the current framework and improves access to high quality services for far more people.
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HSJ KnowledgeDoes quality differ across UK nations?
Almost 10 years since constitutional devolution can we see any differences in the quality of healthcare provided in the different UK populations, based on the emerging differences in policy?
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News
Chief executive resigns following mortality probe
The chair and chief executive of a foundation trust have resigned ahead of the first regulatory report triggered by mortality figures.
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Leader
NHS managers' pay turns red tops green with envy
Salary envy is coming to the NHS. As the recession decimates jobs, pension pots and pay rises in the private sector, newspapers are turning their cynical fire on the pay and perks of public sector managers.
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Leading NHS chiefs call for London trust mergers
Competition and collaboration rules should not stand in the way of hospital trust mergers and acquisitions, two major acute trust chief executives have argued.
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Trusts fail to act on mortality alerts
Some hospital trust boards are neglecting figures that may highlight serious care failings, leading to patient deaths, the Healthcare Commission has said.
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Chief executives should publish expenses, says information commissioner
Chief executives and senior officers of NHS bodies should publish their expenses - including hospitality and hotel stays - as a matter of course, according to Scotland’s information commissioner.