South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2697
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HSJ KnowledgeComparing UK maternity services
Recently, HSJ looked at spending and productivity in England and Scotland. This article investigates differences in the maternity services across three countries (England, Northern Ireland and Wales - reliable data for Scotland was not found for the whole period).
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Comment
Maggie Rae on world class efforts
The Olympics may be behind us but the legacy of rigorous training lives on in primary care trusts across the country as they prepare for the world class commissioning competency assessment process.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS vocational training: branching out
A mental health and learning disability trust has helped one of its rehabilitation schemes become a social firm. Alison Moore reports
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Comment
Ali Mohammed on caring for NHS staff
Having just returned from holiday, I am once again struck by how much attention goes into the little things done by industries that focus heavily on customer care.
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HSJ Knowledge
Clinicians and managers: vive la difference
Clinicians and managers may have very different perspectives, but this can be viewed in a positive light, says Jacky Eyres
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Supplements
Intelligence: future perfect
Welcome to the latest issue of Intelligence, the quarterly HSJ supplement dedicated to innovation, information and technology.
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Comment
Neil Goodwin on chief executive boredom
I have been reflecting on my time as a chief executive, specifically that in the latter part of my career I experienced increasing periods of boredom.
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Blogs
Fully funded NHS policies? Fabulous
Can anyone recall a cross-departmental policy launched some time ago with the laudable aim of ensuring that policies would not be announced without the full funding attached? Wot? Teamworking with the Treasury?
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HSJ Knowledge
Data-sharing doctors
Daloni Carlisle finds out how Liverpool GPs are sharing data to keep patients out of hospital
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HSJ Knowledge
Health system integration: straight to the point
Data analysis is revealing why people make inappropriate calls to the emergency services and prompting the discovery of new solutions to the problem, reports Stuart Shepherd
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HSJ Knowledge
View from the floor: end of life care
Helene Hibbert is a Macmillan occupational therapist. She works in end of life care at St Mary's Hospital in London's Imperial College Healthcare trust
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HSJ Knowledge
Patient safety records: silent witness
General practice logs just 0.4 per cent of all patient safety reports. Are GPs keeping quiet to protect their businesses or are patients reluctant to complain? Mark Gould investigates
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Comment
Steve Field on the case for a GP-led health service
Lord Darzi's review of the NHS advocates a healthcare system led by clinicians and centred on patients - and rightly so.
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News
Stroke services imporved
Stroke services have shown marked improvement in the last two years, an audit by the Royal College of Physicians has shown.The audit of 224 hospitals in all areas of the UK except Scotland found near universal provision of specialist stroke beds.About 30 per cent are offering thrombolysis for stroke and ...
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News
£75m pledged to tackle childhood obesity
The government is to launch a £75m national programme aimed at tackling childhood obesity and has asked local authorities and primary care trusts to align their local initiatives to the new brand - Change4Life.
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News
Top-ups should be allowed, says King's Fund chief
The NHS should not deny treatment to patients who pay privately for unapproved drugs, King's Fund chief executive Niall Dickson has said.He told a seminar yesterday: 'The current practice on top-ups, which prohibits people from privately purchasing drugs not available on the health service while continuing a course of NHS ...
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News
NHS home oxygen service a hit
The first national patient survey of the home oxygen service has found high levels of satisfaction.
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News
BMA supports cross-border healthcare
The British Medical Association is calling for minimum quality standards for healthcare in Europe, overseen by the European Commission.
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News
Healthcare 100 - last chance to register your organisation!
HSJ and Nursing Times have joined up with NHS Employers to identify the top healthcare providers to work for in the UK.Don’t miss this opportunity - register by 19 September!
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Blogs
Let's get serious about public health
It's time to take a radically different approach to reducing health inequalities. The way that we're going we don't stand a chance.