South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2641
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Patient choice push for long-term conditions
Commissioners should be promoting patient choice for people with long-term conditions, the Department of Health has advised.
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News
Probe into learning disabilities deaths
An independent confidential inquiry is to look at premature deaths of people with learning disabilities in NHS care, the government has announced.Health secretary Alan Johnson also said a public health observatory would be established to provide national and local-level data to support commissioning for people with learning disabilities.
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Comment
Andrew Jones on keeping the NHS afloat
As a clinical leader, I have always known that some skill sets are more suited to following protocols than others - is it better to discover for oneself or accept collective, evidence-based practice? The credit crunch has undoubtedly been a wake-up call.
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Comment
Mike Cooke on sizzling NHS leadership
Leadership and management remain big themes in 2009. This column is about the ‘sizzle’ and the ‘sausages’.
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HSJ Knowledge
Patient safety reporting: the eyes have it
In the second in our series on improving patient safety, Alison Moore looks at a trust whose team of frontline 'risk eyes' has encouraged a good reporting culture
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Comment
Ken Jarrold on NHS positive thinking
2009 does not look like the most promising of years. The impact of the recession on the NHS will be real: the years of plenty are behind us. In these circumstances, it is important to hold on to the positives and not be overwhelmed by gloom.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS career development: moving to the private sector
The NHS offers many managers a career for life, but what is it like on the other side of the fence? Louise Hunt and Helen Mooney spoke to six long-timers who escaped their comfort zone and made the switch to the private sector
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS staff wellbeing: get fighting fit
Attracting the best staff is essential to the success of the NHS - the next step is to keep them healthy. Julian Topping explains
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News
Bill sets out personal health budget proposals
A health bill setting out proposals to pilot personal budgets for patients has been published today by the Department of Health.Under measures laid out in the bill, payments would for the first time be handed directly to patients to give them greater control over their care.
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Scotland backs elected health boards
Scotland moved closer towards elected health boards after politicians voted in favour of the proposals.
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DH publishes reactions to pharmacy consultation
An analysis of responses to the Department of Health's proposals to improve pharmacy services has been published.
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Recession will hit mental health hardest, study finds
The recession will have even more impact on people's mental health than on their finances, the Young Foundation think tank has found.
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Comment
Angela Greatley on racism and the NHS
Next month marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of the Macpherson report into the death of Stephen Lawrence. The report was the first to bring the concept of 'institutional racism' to the attention of the public.
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Trusts told to prioritise C difficile targets
Trusts have been told to prioritise protecting patients from C difficile over other strategic goals in new Department of Health guidance on controlling infection rates.
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Surgical safety checklist promises to cut deaths by a third
Trusts have been told to use a new safety checklist after a global trial saw surgical deaths and complications cut by a third.
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Leader
NHS history tells us we've been in this tough spot before
The NHS is reliving its own history. Government papers released to the National Archives reveal that 30 years ago ministers were facing eerily familiar pressures: a recession, plunging support, rising unemployment and demand, the need to improve the NHS with little or no new cash, and a big idea about ...
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Leader
Darzi review: MPs' shallow analysis sheds no light
The Commons health committee has delivered a devastating critique of primary care trusts.
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News
How to ensure safer screening
QualificationsFor non-health professionals, qualifications that are requirements for a position must be checked. Applicants may not have the original documentation and employers need to use discretion and take proportionate action. If a qualification is essential for the position, employers must request certificates and take copies; check details match the application; ...
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Lee Whitehead's career history
2003-05 Thames Valley strategic health authority head of performance improvement.April 2005 - January 2007 Vale of Aylesbury primary care trust director of commissioning and modernisation.January 2007 Joins Stoke on Trent PCT as director of commissioning and modernisation.August 2007 Resigns ahead of scheduled disciplinary hearing, which later finds him guilty of ...
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Choose and book glitches lose trusts income
Hospitals are losing income because they are failing to get to grips with the Department of Health's choose and book system.