South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2692
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News
NHS polyclinics could undermine patient trust
Research at Leicester University suggests polyclinics and ‘super surgeries’ will undermine trust between patients and GPs because patients will be unlikely to see the same doctor on every visit.
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News
Richard Branson joins Patients Association
Sir Richard Branson, Baroness Kennedy, Professor Sir Iain Hutchison and Dr Evan Harris have all become vice presidents of the Patients Association.
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Women ignoring vaginal infections, says charity
Nearly half of all women are ignoring symptoms of vaginal infections, according to a survey by women's health charity Wellbeing of Women.
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Comment
John Coakley on the quest for medical leadership
There seems to be an increasing demand for clinical, and in particular medical, leadership. Lord Darzi's next stage review recommendations and the reviews of healthcare being conducted across strategic health authorities will not work without it.
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Blogs
The trouble with the Welsh NHS
You can't beat the Welsh, can you? Twenty-two Local Health Boards giving money via block contracts to about a dozen hospitals.
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HSJ Partners
Improving inpatient mental health services
The Healthcare Commission review of acute inpatient care, Pathway to Recovery, marks a milestone in the ongoing effort to achieve a step change in the quality of inpatient mental health services.
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News
DH launches research fellowships
The Department of Health and the National Institute for Health Research have launched a research fellowship scheme that will provide £4m over the next three years.Healthcare scientists are invited to develop a research project that will improve patient care while promoting links between the NHS and university research groups.
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Scots patients get surgery waiting time guarantee
Patients in Scotland should wait no more than 12 weeks for surgery after being referred to hospital, under proposals in a consultation on the Patient Rights Bill.
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News
Hospitals told data protection must uphold human rights
Public sector bodies, particularly hospitals, could face large fines if they do not take action to ensure their data protection upholds human rights laws, a law firm has warned.
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News
Isle of Wight PCT appoints new chief executive
Kevin Flynn has been appointed as chief executive of Isle of Wight primary care trust.
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News
BMA junior doctors committee elects chairman
Andrew Thornley, a specialist registrar in cardiology at the James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough, has been elected the new chairman of the BMA junior doctors committee.
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Supplements
Smoking supplement: fired up
Stopping smoking is the single most important thing smokers can do to improve their current and future health.
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Comment
Stephen Ramsden on harm to patients
Why is there no public outcry about the harm we cause patients in hospital? Or about the avoidable deaths that happen week in, week out?
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Comment
Jeremy Porteus on NHS networking
It was during the shoulder-padded, champers-quaffing decade of excess known as the 1980s that the term 'networking' became popular.
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HSJ Knowledge
Communicating major change in the NHS
How can you woo the workforce into embarking on change rather than alarm them with the unknown? Dominic Walters explains
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on caring for the whole patient
My 75-year-old father has recently had a coronary angiogram and been referred for bypass graft surgery. When I was a cardiology senior house officer in the Jurassic period, he would never have been referred for such surgery at this age.
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Blogs
Let's do away with nurses' stations
When are ward nurses going to surgically remove themselves from the nurses' station and increase their time with the patients?
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HSJ Knowledge
Catching mental illness early
New primary care teams are helping to catch people early in the spectrum of mental illness. Stuart Shepherd explains
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HSJ Knowledge
HIV services: caring for older patients
As people with HIV/AIDS live longer, services must adapt to meet the needs of more patients and the first generation of HIV-positive pensioners. Emma Dent reports
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HSJ Knowledge
Transformational leadership in a transformed NHS
To make patient care truly effective, all doctors need to develop the skills of transformational leadership, as Graham Neale explains