South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2638
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Rose Gibb defends NHS chief executives in witness box
Rose Gibb told the High Court today that if NHS chief executives resigned every time a patient died “there would be an awful lot of empty seats in the NHS”.In the witness box this morning, Ms Gibb defended her record running Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust. She said the trust ...
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Rose Gibb lawyer claims payoff was fair
Rose Gibb’s battle to get her compensation payoff went to the High Court yesterday – where she was met by a barrage of photographers and cameramen.Ms Gibb - who is expected to give evidence today - is suing her former employer, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, for breach of contract. ...
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NHS Confed calls for IT programme overhaul
The national programme for IT should be called in by government, NHS Confederation policy director Nigel Edwards has said.
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NHS sets itself tough targets for green future
The health service is to set itself up as a trailblazer for public sector sustainability.
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Specialist doctors say NHS is institutionally ageist
Almost half of specialist geriatric doctors think the NHS is institutionally ageist, according to a survey by Help the Aged.
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Comment
David Levy on the Clinical Leaders Network
I recently had the pleasure of attending a meeting of strategic health authority leads of the Clinical Leaders Network. There were about 30 of us in the room, in three groups.
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Leak reveals Alan Johnson's PFI concerns
Health secretary Alan Johnson's concerns about the NHS in the recession have been leaked in an email from the chair of NHS South East Coast.
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Chief medical officer launches public health awards
Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has established an annual awards event for those working in public health.
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Rose Gibb goes to court to fight for payoff
Rose Gibb, the former chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, goes to the High Court today to try to get her controversial payoff.Ms Gibb, who left the trust just days before the publication of a critical Healthcare Commission report into outbreaks of C difficile, is claiming damages for ...
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Lisa Rodrigues on NHS kindness
At the end of 2008, King's Fund chief executive Niall Dickson was reported as saying that NHS staff have lost their compassion and that his organisation wants to help bring it back. I could not agree less.
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Blogs
Going forwards with healthcare
There are many 'management speak' constructs that baffle, amuse and provide opportunities to be cynical about the art of management and leadership.
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Supplements
18-week target: how we lost the NHS wait
It was always a tough ask - could the NHS fundamentally change its ways of working for elective patients, transform the quality of the service that patients experience, reduce the backlogs of long waits, and cut waiting times dramatically?
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Comment
Yi Mien Koh on the world class commissioning story
In December, the board at Hillingdon primary care trust completed its world class commissioning assurance panel day.
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HSJ Knowledge
Social marketing: the medium is the message
Health promotion suffers from a 'conspiracy of passive failure'. Could work in the North West turn it around, asks Stuart Shepherd
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Comment
Ali Mohammed on NHS workplace frustrations
Why do people click 'reply to all' in an email when replying to the originator alone would suffice? This normally generates a further set of emails from those copied in, asking not to be copied in.
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Personal branding: success at last
In the final part in her series, Debbie Smith explains how to use your personal brand to secure that big promotion
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS discharge planning: lost for words
GPs need timely discharge summaries to provide patients with effective follow-up care, yet they often have to wait weeks for this information. How can medics make sure one hand knows what the other is doing, asks Daloni Carlisle
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Leaked memo reveals DH frustration over mixed-sex wards
A leaked memo written by a strategic health authority chairman has revealed health secretary Alan Johnson’s deep frustrations that New Labour’s 1997 manifesto pledge to scrap mixed-sex accommodation has not been met.
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Two NHS trusts rapped for patient data loss
Two trusts have been found in breach of the Data Protection Act for losing and failing to secure information about patients.