South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2633
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HSJ Knowledge
Weight loss surgery: who is cut out for it?
Assessment for weight loss surgery - such as gastric bypass or gastric banding - has to ask whether patients are committed to a healthier way of life, insists David Ashton
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Comment
Neil Goodwin on managing ambition in the NHS
NHS managers need to be aware of the benefits and dangers of personal ambition
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HSJ Knowledge
The homeless and health
Initiatives to wrestle with the health consequences of homelessness are deprived of a coherent national strategy, say campaigners. Mark Gould hears the growing calls for the NHS to take the lead
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Blogs
Dr Anna Donald
HSJ has learned of the sad death of Dr Anna Donald. Dr Donald, who died in Sydney Australia on 1 February, was formerly a co-founder of the healthcare information provider Bazian and an HSJ columnist.
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News
NHS PROMs results ready by November
Hospitals will be publicly rated by patients' reports of their care before the end of the year.
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News
Measles cases rise to record high
Last year saw the highest number of measles cases in England and Wales since records began, the Health Protection Agency has revealed.
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News
Conservatives highlight NHS litigation cost increase
The government has admitted that NHS negligence premiums will nearly double to £713m in the next financial year.
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News
NHS managers call for clinical training overhaul
Managers and clinicians are calling for clinical training programmes to give doctors a better understanding of finance and resource management in the NHS.
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News
West Middlesex trust names Tara Donnelly's replacement
West Middlesex University Hospital trust has appointed an interim chief executive following the resignation of Tara Donnelly.Dame Jacqueline Docherty will join the trust on 23 February from King's College Hospital, where she was deputy chief executive and director of operations.
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ this week
HSJ visited the NHS Confederation’s PCT Network conference and found out how commissioners were feeling about the journey towards being world class.Watch it now!
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Leader
NHS has a role in weathering the recession
As the country's biggest employer and a tenth of the economy, the NHS has an major role to play in helping us all weather the recession.
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Leader
PCTs need cash and clout to deliver patient choice
The government is getting tough over choice. While the other legs of the next stage review - quality and safety - have clear strategies behind them and a sense of momentum, choice has failed to take hold.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy NICE values some patients' lives more
Mike Richards’ review of what to do about top-ups seems to reaffirm the line that the NHS should not subsidise private consumption of healthcare.
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Comment
Mental health promotion: healthiness is all in the mind
Andrew McCullough argues public health messages need a makeover so people base their lifestyles on an understanding of wellbeing that ties mental and physical health together
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News
Emma Dent on counting calories
Using the recent anniversary of my birth as an excuse, Mr D and I seized the chance to go for a nice meal surrounded by grown-ups, before the only restaurants we get to patronise are those full of buggies and helpings of organic carrot.
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Comment
Sophia Christie on healthcare's false economy
Just in case we thought Keynesian economics might protect us from the credit crunch, Nick Timmins of the Financial Times used his keynote presentation at an anniversary event for world class commissioning to demonstrate that we will be highly unlikely to enjoy growth reaching 3 per cent by 2011.
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News
King College foundation trust chief welcomes targets
Bureaucracy and targets are no greater in the NHS than in the private sector, King's College foundation trust's new chief executive Tim Smart has insisted.
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News
NHS managers not reaping benefits of Agenda for Change
Managers are still not reaping the benefits promised by Agenda for Change four years after it was introduced, according to the National Audit Office.
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News
NICE lacks GP input says NHS Alliance
The NHS Alliance has given muted approval to Department of Health proposals to change the quality and outcomes framework GP bonus scheme.
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News
MPs hear Richards review skirted major top-up areas
The government’s decision to allow co-payments for private treatments assumed it is best to make expensive drugs ‘as freely available as possible’, MPs have been told.