South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2715
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Trusts warned C difficile probe decision sets no precedent
The decision not to launch a criminal investigation into deaths at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust will not set a precedent, NHS managers have been warned.
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Comment
Media Watch: Is Johnson leaving the DH?
Alan Johnson's days at the Department of Health may be numbered. The Labour leadership crisis sparked by David Miliband and bored lobby correspondents has led to speculation the health secretary will be elevated either to the top job or deputy prime minister.
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Top-up review risks compromising NHS credibility
The government's review of the ban on 'top-up' payments for non-NHS treatments risks compromising the credibility of the NHS, public health chiefs are warning.
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BBC to take a role in NHS Choices site
The BBC and Picker Institute are preparing to play a role in the running of the NHS Choices website, alongside outsourcing giant Capita.
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Accounting rule changes to cost hospitals £146m
New accountancy rules will bring up to 16bn of extra debt onto the NHS balance sheet and cost hospitals 146m a year.
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£550m set aside to fund Darzi
The Department of Health has set aside £150m from next year's NHS budget and £400m in 2010-11 to pay for the commitments set out in health minister Lord Darzi's review.
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Monitor steps in as trust losses soar
Monitor has exercised its intervention powers for the second time since its creation with a formal notice to the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases foundation trust.
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Minority staff get worse deal on jobs, pay and grievances
Widespread disadvantages faced by black and minority ethnic NHS staff have been laid bare in a stark analysis of recruitment, bullying, grievance and disciplinary rates.
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Comment
Michael White on feminism
I couldn't help noticing in recent days how feminism kept popping up. As part of the wider debate about equality affecting class and poverty, gender, race, disability, it never goes away.
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Do not marginalise drug addiction
Thank you HSJ for flagging up the 'neglect' of common mental health problems in specialist mental health trusts.
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Some are more equally paid than others
The Appeal Court's decision in the Redcar and Cleveland and Middlesbrough borough councils equal pay case will prove a curate's egg for NHS trusts. At the heart of the decision are answers to questions about pay protection. This operates where an employer buffers the effects of having to bring male ...
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Much to learn about disability
The findings of the independent inquiry into access to healthcare for people with learning disabilities prove that people with a learning disability are being discriminated against in the NHS, which is leading to unnecessary pain and death.
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Data is critical to healthcare commissioning
HSJ is right that 'Data shortfalls hinder world class commissioning efforts'. While some in healthcare think the service should be immune to the normal pressures of business and operations, data is the key to almost every activity, from sport to industry.
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HSJ KnowledgeAdmissions up for treatable illnesses
Ambulatory care sensitive conditions are long-term health conditions that can often be managed with timely and effective treatment without hospitalisation.
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on following Darzi
I have been hearing talk along the lines of 'Darzi will never take off'. Some of this is wishful thinking (fearful acute trust) or something like first night nerves (empowered but apprehensive PCT).
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Reconfiguration panel is left kicking its heels
The independent reconfiguration panel has been left with no referrals to examine after delivering three reports to the health secretary.
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HSJ Knowledge
Devolved power flows through Darzi's vision
The next stage review's warm reception was testament to the staff and patient engagement that informed it. Now, says NHS chief executive David Nicholson, that local ownership will energise its implementation
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Holistic approach to sexual health
One element of GP involvement in sexual health services which I think has been missed from the report by the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health is their potential role in practice based commissioning.
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Nuffield hopes to avoid merger with health science plan
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre trust is seeking to stave off the threat of a merger by forming an academic health science centre with Oxford University.
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NHS wards infested with vermin, Conservatives claim
NHS hospital wards are 'over-run' with ants and other infection-spreading pests, the Conservatives have claimed.