South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2642
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Corrigan quits NHS London amid shake-up
NHS London director Paul Corrigan is leaving the organisation as it prepares to hive off some of its major functions to a newly created body.
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Low hopes for dementia strategy as cash dries up
Mental health experts who advised the government on the delayed dementia strategy are 'braced for disappointment' amid fears it is being substantially watered down due to the worsening economy.
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CV lands lying manager in jail sparking wider fears on checks
Two NHS managers have been sentenced in the space of a week for lying to get jobs - with one former primary care trust director jailed for three months.The cases have prompted concerns that trusts may regularly be failing to check credentials, raising the possibility of undiscovered fraud across the ...
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Trusts call for tariff system transparency
Hospital managers have called for greater transparency about how the 2009-10 tariff will be affected by other cost and payment changes.
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CV fraud: readers react to the story on hsj.co.uk
"It is time that all chief executives, directors and associate directors should obtain a full accreditation and registration with a recognised professional body similar to the General Medical Council, General Dental Council etc before applying to any post at that level in the NHS. This is the only way to ...
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Divisions emerge as super trust race enters final lap
Research might versus community credentials has emerged as a dividing line among organisations pitching to be labelled academic health science centres.
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Department steps up push for separate PCT provider arms
The Department of Health has turned up the heat under primary care trusts following concerns over the quality of their plans to separate their provider arms.
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Media Watch: DH salaries
Since everything is about money at the moment, it is perhaps no surprise that enterprising politicians have been totting up what the NHS and government spend on everything from celebrities to Department of Health officials.
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Michael White on public health nudges
I was relaxing on the South Island of New Zealand and just about to throw away what had been a very nice bottle of local sauvignon blanc when I noticed a detail on the label.
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HSJ KnowledgeHealth spending: how much does it cost to save a life?
We know the economic outlook is bleak and there are growing concerns about how this will affect spending in the NHS. So it is timely to consider the extent to which healthcare spending yields patient benefits.
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Emma Dent on mobiles in hospitals
So the ban on mobile phone use in hospitals is being relaxed. Not that patients had been taking any notice of it in the first place.
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Simon Stevens on an NHS game plan for 2009
Happy New Year. Or is it? With so much talk of recession and economic gloom, it's easy to forget the NHS's benign position, compared with - say - the car industry, retail, or financial services.
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NHS South Central blazes a trail on water fluoridation
The consultation over putting fluoride in water supplies on the south coast is proving a ‘totemic argument between state and individual’. Other areas will be watching the outcome closely, reports Rebecca Evans
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Maidstone celebrates huge strides in war on C difficile
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has been praised for the progress it has made on tackling infection control - but has been warned it should not relax.
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NICE backs changes to end of life drugs policy
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is to proceed with controversial plans to broaden access to drugs for terminally ill people.
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Trusts to monitor mobile phone use in hospitals
Trusts must work out how they will effectively monitor the use of mobile phones with cameras to ensure they are not used in hospitals to take inappropriate pictures.
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Foundations face threat to joint ventures
Foundation trusts face narrowed commercial opportunities because of a gap in the government's insolvency regime, the Foundation Trust Network has warned.
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Patient choice: Apple's way will bear most fruit
Patient choice means NHS organisations must act more like businesses to win customers. The best will look to companies like Apple, which build their services from the 'outside in'
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NHS archive documents: secret papers show history repeating itself
A recession, rising unemployment, escalating demand for health services and the tricky issue of how to improve the NHS with little or no new cash.
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Minority staff blocked from senior NHS roles, study finds
Institutional racial discrimination is blocking black and ethnic minority NHS staff from senior positions, an independent study has confirmed.Only 8 per cent of senior managers are from non-white backgrounds compared with 12 per cent of the working-age population, an assessment commissioned by the NHS Institute found.