South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2635
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Half of all patients aware they have choice
Almost half of all patients are aware they have choice.
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Snow hits non-urgent hospital services
Hospitals across the country cancelled non-urgent surgery as they coped with staff absences and increased emergency admissions brought on by heavy snow.
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Dementia strategy published
Memory clinics will be set up in every town in England, doctors will get extra training to recognise the early signs of dementia and every hospital and care home will have a senior clinician with responsibility for dementia care, as part of a £150m five-year dementia strategy.
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Do your rounds to be a better NHS leader
Dr D J Brown, a clinical fellow in emergency medicine, offers tips on how to be a better health service manager
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How have today's snowstorms affected your organisation?
Write to dave.west@emap.com with your stories and pictures.
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Trusts 'could opt out of working time directive'
The Department of Health has formally announced it wants trusts to be able to opt out of the European working time directive on behalf of junior doctors.
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Rose Gibb faces agonising wait for court's judgement
Rose Gibb faces an agonising wait to hear if she has won her legal battle with former employer Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust.At the end of four days of complex proceedings, Mr Justice Treacy said he wanted to reserve judgement on the breach of contract case.
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Centre of excellence needs clearer vision, King's Fund warns
The Department of Health's new centre of excellence risks being 'overloaded and ineffective' if it is not given a proper purpose, the King's Fund has said.
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DH launches children's health survey
The Department of Health has launched its biggest ever survey of children's health.
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Jenny Rogers on being lonely at the top of the NHS
With the new US president having begun his administration, carrying so many of our hopes for change and improvement, it is easy to forget how lonely the role can be.
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Trust prepares for mental health training trial
A Yorkshire trust has been tasked with trying out a training package that could transform mental healthcare
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Daphne Austin on priority politics
With its use of selective stories, partial facts and opinion from a restricted range of experts presenting only a narrow range of insights, the current dialogue on priority setting resembles propaganda more than it does debate.
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Asperger syndrome: unlock the full spectrum of care
Efforts under way in Dorset mean adults with Asperger syndrome no longer have to go without the support they need
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Improving NHS dementia care
With the long awaited dementia strategy finally here, the race is on to overcome the stigma surrounding the condition and spread the word about available treatments. Emma Dent reports
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Clinical Leaders Network: from strength to strength
Clinical Leaders Network director Raj Kumar talks about the initiative's progress so far and the hurdles that lie ahead
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HSJ Intelligence: health mapping
Welcome to the latest issue of Intelligence, the quarterly HSJ supplement dedicated to innovation, information and technology.
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Pay-off was not irrationally generous, says Rose Gibb's lawyer
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust was not 'irrationally generous' in giving former chief executive Rose Gibb a £250,000 pay-off, because it took into account all the relevant considerations, a court heard yesterday.Read more on the Rose Gibb case>>
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Dental equipment cleanliness under scrutiny
Primary care trusts are to be asked to help find out from dentists how clean their surgical equipment is.
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Bart's computer virus incident was entirely avoidable
A review into how a computer virus was able to cripple a hospital's IT network has concluded the incident was 'entirely avoidable'.Bart's and the London trust was forced to declare a major internal incident and divert ambulances when the Mytob virus worm spread across the system last November.
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Government boosts flu pandemic drug stockpile
The government has awarded contracts to double supplies of antiviral drugs to treat pandemic flu.