South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2703
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PFI plan could keep debts off NHS trusts' balance sheets
NHS trusts may hand their private finance initiative hospitals over to specially created charities to avoid reporting PFI debts on their balance sheets, HSJ has learned.The controversial plans would involve trusts ceding control of the hospitals to a third party.
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Hull trust buys Nuffield hospital to save money
Hulland East Yorkshire Hospitals trust has bought a private Nuffield hospital to avoid contracting out services to the independent sector.
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Conservatives plan to step up councils' role in health
Public health directors would have to report to local authorities under plans announced by the shadow health secretary last week.
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Michael White on public health policy
Andrew Lansley seems to have been the first health politico to get off the beach and back in hot water this summer with that 'no excuses, no nannying' speech he made to the pro-market Reform think tank.
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HSJ KnowledgeQuality measures obscure real picture
Bank holidays are peak times for out of hours and other urgent health services. In the run-up organisations work hard to plan capacity to ensure that available resources meet demand.
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Putting the patient at the centre
Personal budgets are nothing more complicated than being clear with people from the outset about how much money is available to meet their level of need and allowing them greater choice over how it is spent.
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Pricing tariffs would reduce coding errors
A simple device could improve clinical coding and costing at a stroke: all providers should put the cost of the patient episode (provisional if necessary) with the clinical discharge summary letter to the GP as the patient leaves hospital.
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Audit sample 'was misleading'
Your point that up to £1bn of bills sent by trusts to primary care trusts could be incorrect is misleading.
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Carbon strategy proposes tough target
The draft carbon reduction strategy for the NHS in England proposes a more stringent carbon target than the one mentioned in your article: zero-carbon hospitals by 2018.
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Data protection in the NHS - a ticking time bomb?
The health service's procedures for protecting confidential data are worryingly inadequate, argue Sven Putnis and Andrew Bircher
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Accountancy firms win PCT board roles
Three of the 'big four' accountancy firms have been selected to improve primary care trust boards' skills.KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young are all leading consortiums that have made successful bids to be on the Department of Health's new PCT board development framework.
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Enhancing service requires proper funding
I must respond to Sophia Christie's column. The days of the GP doing an ever-expanding range of tasks for the same money are gone. Movement from secondary to primary care must be accompanied by altered funding flows.
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Get happy: the secret to a healthy old age
There is clear evidence older people benefit from preventive healthcare. For the fulfilled old age that people want, services must spot depression early and support good diet and mobility
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London polyclinics to use 'federated' model
None of London's first wave of controversial polyclinics will deliver all its services from a single new standalone building.
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PCTs press for south London hospitals shake-up
Primary care trusts have warned that delaying the proposed reconfiguration of hospitals in south east London could push services to breaking point.
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Clare Chapman to judge Healthcare 100 entries
Department of Health workforce director general Clare Chapman has given her support to HSJ's Healthcare 100 awards by agreeing to be one of the judges validating the list of the UK's top healthcare employers.NHS and independent sector providers have until 15 September to register for the awards, delivered jointly with ...
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Foetus size linked to miscarriage risk
Research at St George's Hospital has discovered a link between the size of the foetus at 12 weeks and the likelihood of miscarriage.
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UK psychiatric patients 'worst off'
Seriously mentally ill patients in the UK suffer more from the consequences of their illness than their European counterparts, an international survey for the World Federation for Mental Health has suggested.
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Health minister announces research funding for Wales
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has announced just under £370,000 of funding to support the research and development of new technologies and treatments.
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Leeds manager chosen for WHO working group
A programme manager from Leeds primary care trust has been invited to join a World Health Organisation working group on the health of women in prison.