South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2696
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News
Infections prompt agency to issue blood testing guidance
Guidance for the testing of blood glucose in residential care homes is to be issued by the Health Protection Agency after testing led to breakdowns in infection control. Five incidences of onward transmission of hepatitis B are believed to have occurred in care homes from 2004-07.
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News
Scottish walk-in pharmacy services launched
Eight Scottish pharmacies are piloting walk-in services such as immunisation, health checks, nurse-led minor injury clinics, sexual healthcare and smoking cessation. The pharmacies will stay open until midnight six days a week during the pilot, which is due to run until March 2010.
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News
Scotland holds annual quality improvement review
The annual review of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland will be held in public today, chaired by health secretary Nicola Sturgeon. The review will include a question and answer session with members of the public.
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News
NHS non-executives: what does it take to succeed?
Mike Hay examines the skills, knowledge, behaviours and approach that successful non-executive directors need
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HSJ Partners
The advance of primary care information
While the NHS has a rich, central resource of acute care information at its fingertips, the same cannot be said for primary care, writes Dave Roberts
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HSJ Partners
Information Centre reports on drug misuse by men
Nearly 80 per cent of people in England and Wales who died due to illicit drug use in 2006 were men, an NHS Information Centre bulletin shows.
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HSJ Partners
Information Centre reports on NHS dentistry
A patient undergoing NHS dental treatment under the new contractual arrangements is more likely to have dentures or tooth extractions and less likely to have fillings or crowns than under the old arrangements, a report released by the NHS Information Centre suggests.
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Comment
Mike Hobbs on mental health discrimination
People with mental illness are subject to prejudice in our society. Although attitudes to people with anxiety and depression have improved, attitudes towards people with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia have worsened.
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Blogs
Moral hazard 101 for health managers
We should all know what is meant by the term 'moral hazard' thanks to Northern Rock, but let me start with a definition in case you have recently emerged from the Tora Bora Mountains.
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HSJ Knowledge
Championing NHS work experience
An innovative and award-winning work experience programme in Kensington and Chelsea is delivering benefits to the NHS, local authority and local community
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News
NHS dentists' pay tops £100,000
The NHS Information Centre is tomorrow expected to reveal that some NHS dentists are earning £100,000 a year.
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News
Pension plans threaten Manx health service
Plans now being considered by the Manx government to sever the link with the NHS pensions scheme will lead to a 'potentially disastrous staff exodus', the British Medical Association warns today.
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News
Stroke care improvements 'must continue'
There has been a major improvement in the organisation of stroke care over the past two years, according to the latest National Sentinel Organisational Audit of Stroke.
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News
Lib Dems set to debate health policy
The Liberal Democrats kick off the party conference season with their meeting in Bournemouth this week, with the NHS set to be a hot topic.
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News
Take part in HSJ’s health policy survey
Who would make the best health secretary? Which political party's policies are the best for the NHS? Have your say in HSJ's survey of the three main parties' health policies.Vote in our poll and see the results in Thursday's magazine.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS in virtual reality: second sight
The virtual world of Second Life has a health service, so you can now tour a cyber polyclinic. Daloni Carlisle explains
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Comment
Lyn Whitfield on personal medical data
Did anyone else feel a twinge of unease about the NHS's 60th anniversary celebrations? I couldn't help thinking they were very backward looking; all those 1940s-style logos and pictures of nurses holding babies in knitted cardigans.
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Comment
Alan Maynard on managing the NHS market
The Darzi reforms, like dozens of ‘definitive’ reports and structural ‘redisorganisations’ over the 60 years of the health service, are experiments that may imperil or improve the lot of patients and taxpayers.
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HSJ Knowledge
Frank Burns on the health informatics review
I've been writing this column now for two years or so and I fear this might be my last piece - not because I want to give up this marvellous platform to peddle my personal passion for clinical IT, but because I'm beginning to wonder if my difficulties in understanding ...
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS IT connections: one network to rule them all
An entire health community has been wired to a high-bandwidth network that allows GPs to book hospital appointments, gives them instant access to test results and promises efficiency savings. Stuart Shepherd plugs in