South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2684
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News
Survey prompts breast cancer awareness concerns
Three-quarters of older women are unaware that the risk of developing breast cancer increases with age, a survey has found.
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HSJ Partners
NHS data security: tips for trusts
NHS organisations need to take steps to ensure confidential data is handled appropriately. Sian Thomas explains
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Comment
Virginia Beardshaw on children's speech and language services
Child health has always been a minority interest in the NHS. And few managers have moved up the career ladder on the strength of their achievements in the niche field of children's speech and language.
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Comment
Mark Johnson on what Darzi means for NHS innovation
Lord Darzi's review puts quality at the heart of the NHS. This vision can only be achieved through new forms of partnership working between the public, private and third sectors.
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News
Obesity 'costs more than £4bn a year'
The costs associated with people being obese or overweight reached £4.2bn in 2007, according to a toolkit aimed at helping primary care trusts and local authorities tackle obesity.The toolkit says the costs of obesity could reach £6.3bn by 2015.
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Smoking costs NHS £50m a week
Smoking costs the NHS £2.7bn a year or £50m a week, despite a drop in the number of smokers, according to a report by Action on Smoking and Health, Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation.
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News
TV campaign promotes mental health
The Care Services Improvement Partnership in the East of England and charity the Mental Health Foundation have launched a mental health promotion TV campaign.
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News
Department of Health publishes mortality statistics
Statistics outlining progress on reducing overall mortality rates from cancer, circulatory disease, suicide and undetermined injury and accidents have been published.
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News
Healthcare Commission launches annual NHS staff survey
The Healthcare Commission has launched the latest annual staff survey, in which 250,000 staff will be asked their views.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS work experience: a staff perspective
In the last of our series on NHS work experience, a nursing and physiotherapy assistant at Southampton General Hospital gives a staff perspective
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HSJ Knowledge
Skills for Health unveils workforce planning tool
Workforce planners in the health sector have another tool to help them make the recruitment, retention and organisation of staff easier and more sustainable.
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Blogs
Delivering cat food vs delivering healthcare
Type PbR into Google and as of end September 2008 you will get 6.9 million hits. The first two are what you and I understand PbR to mean.
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Comment
Clinical leadership in out of hours services
The Department of Health has signalled that it may allow practice-based commissioning consortiums to take over commissioning out of hours services. Rick Stern explains why this would be good for patients and budgets
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News
Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust hires management review team
NHS South West and Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust have hired four professionals to investigate management at the trust.
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News
Phil Hope replaces Ivan Lewis at DH
Phil Hope has been appointed as a minister in the Department of Health, replacing Ivan Lewis.Mr Hope takes over the social care portfolio. The department is in the middle of an emotive debate on the future shape of care and support, intended to precede a green paper on reform of ...
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News
Cash boost for cancer imaging
Research and development of cancer imaging in the UK is to benefit from £50m of additional funding.
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News
Warning to hospitals on diluted disinfectants
A study has found that using over-diluted disinfectants in hospitals could result in bacteria becoming more resistant to antibiotics.
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News
Social care council appoints chairman
Rosie Varley, acting chair of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence, has been named as the new chair of the General Social Care Council.
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News
Phil Hope takes over social care brief at DH
Phil Hope has been appointed as a minister in the Department of Health, replacing Ivan Lewis.Mr Hope takes over the social care portfolio. The department is in the middle of an emotive debate on the future shape of care and support, intended to precede a green paper on reform of ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Health inequalities: travelling communities
The alarming levels of health inequalities experienced by travelling communities can be better understood and tackled by health professionals, says Richard O'Neill